For months, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has been dragged through hell for her criticisms of Israel and its US lobby, posited by her opponents as incontrovertible proof of antisemitism. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), whose parents were born in Palestine and whose extended family still lives there, had Omar’s back from the beginning.

“I am so honored to serve with [Omar], an incredible courageous woman,” Tlaib tweeted in March, “Every time I worry about her and the ugly attacks, I remember what she said to me two months ago: ‘I survived war, I can survive this.’”

When House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), called for Omar to be boxed out of intelligence briefings, Tlaib tweeted, “Hard to watch Rep. Scalise demand that [Omar] be removed from House Foreign Affairs w/o wondering if it’s steeped in Islamophobia.”