“BDSers single out Israel for condemnation even though it does more to protect human rights than any other country in its region.”
Indeed. As does the UN. In both cases, the cynical and deceptive “Palestinian” propaganda has been monstrously successful in deceiving large numbers of people.
“Rashida Tlaib doesn’t love free speech, she hates Israel,” New York Post Editorial Board, July 24, 2019:
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) made her views crystal-clear on the House floor Tuesday when she rose to oppose a resolution condemning the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement: She hates Israel with a passion.
Specifically, she stood to protect “the right to boycott the racist policies of the government and state of Israel.”
The BDS movement calls for action to make the Jewish state feel pain because it’s supposedly the prime cause of Palestinian suffering.
That is, BDSers single out Israel for condemnation even though it does more to protect human rights than any other country in its region. Palestinians in Israel have far more rights than those governed by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Yet Tlaib opted to equate Israel’s critics with the opponents of the Nazis and apartheid, noting: “Americans boycotted Nazi Germany in response to dehumanization, imprisonment and genocide of Jewish people.” And: “In the 1980s, many of us in this very body boycotted South African goods in the fight against apartheid.”…
Thing is, this wasn’t a bill to outlaw or even regulate anything. It was just a purely symbolic measure opposing those who single out Israel for condemnation when it behaves better than most of the world’s nations.
Which is why it ultimately passed, 398-17. Even Tlaib’s fellow “Squad” member Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) supported it….
James says
In the case of the Nazis, the Jews were not firing rockets across the German border, sending burning kites over German farms or smuggling terrorists through tunnels into Germany. In South Africa, the apartheid system ended, but now the black government is trying to confiscate the famrs of Boers, who were only there for four hundred years, and many farmers are tortured and murdered. Where is the civil rights movement to oppose that with a boycott? What sort of civil rights does Rep. Tlaib think the Palestinians owe the Israelis, if the BDS succeeds, if the Palestinians get what they feel entitled to get?
762x51FMJ says
They tried to pass BDS bill and only 4 Muslim +1 Communist AOC Democrat Voted for it,
Then they wanted block the Republican bill to make it illegal to Doxx Amazon purchasers names and addresses who purchase any product from any company that sells products made in Israel.
Nestle’ is on the the list because they have an Israeli subsidiary so if you order Amazon Nestle’ hot chocolate, AntiFa comes to your house with axe handles and ” corrects your order”..
Now the protestors will have to go to D.C to protest instead of in every Americans kitchen cupboard..
Walter Sieruk says
That Muslim politician Rashida Tlaib being so very anti-Jewish and anti-Israel must also be, in hidden essence, very anti-American .As the former US President ,William Howard Taft, had so wisely declared in a speech “Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Furthermore, by using such a foul terms as Rep.Rashida Tlaib did by calling the President “m….. f…..” had exposed what a very low class and totally unsophisticated as well as unintelligent woman she actually is. For a person with any class , sophistication and intelligence might strongly dislike someone but wouldn’t use such vulgarity of language as Tlaib did. She by speaking in that absence low class way has also thrown shame on the office her holds in the US government Could be that Tlaib may be trying to shows herself unfit for the office she now holds ?
WPM says
Rashida Tlaib and Omar were visiting Israel last week if my memory serves me right .Did she appreciate that she could roam the streets without being escorted by a male relatives? Not being cover from head to toe like a car being restored in a locked garaged when she walked the western government styled streets of Israel ? Did she see the Israeli Elected officials that run the country some of them Jewish some of them Moslem a few Christian? Did she visit the pig pen side run by Islamic terrorist ,were most of the money donated by western countries and the Israelis is used to booster terrorism, rockets, hate classes for the children ,instead of hospitals ,schools, sewage and garbage pick up?
CRUSADER says
“Time of Israel” reports that the junket trip to Israel will be set for August….
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Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer said on Friday that Israel will not prevent two BDS-supporting members of Congress from entering Israel next month.
Earlier this week, Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, said that she would visit Israel and the West Bank with Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat from Michigan, in August. Omar and Tlaib are the first female Muslim congresswomen. Both back the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
“Out of respect for the US Congress and the great alliance between Israel and America, we would not deny entry to any member of Congress into Israel,” Dermer told The Times of Israel in a statement.
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Under a controversial law that Israel enacted in 2017, the state can prohibit any foreigner from entering the country who “knowingly issues a public call for boycotting Israel.”
Since then, the Interior and Strategic Affairs ministries have used the statute to deny visas to a handful of students, activists and artists upon their arrival to Israel.
The Foreign Ministry, however, can recommend the law be waived for visiting politicians or government officials out of diplomatic concerns.
Due to the sensitive nature and timing of Omar and Tlaib’s visit, Haaretz had reported on Wednesday that the final decision would be made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The two lawmakers’ visit comes after US President Donald Trump targeted them in recent tweets, saying they — and two other freshmen liberal congresswomen, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts — hated America and Israel and should “go back” to the “crime-infested places from which they came.” Those remarks were condemned as racist in a House resolution passed this week, largely along partisan lines.
Omar on Tuesday introduced a resolution, co-sponsored by Tlaib, ostensibly aimed at pushing back against laws seeking to clamp down on boycotts of Israel. The resolution, which does not explicitly mention Israel or the Palestinians, affirms the right of Americans to participate in boycotts as an expression of free speech under the First Amendment, citing boycott movements against Nazi Germany, the USSR and apartheid South Africa.
It currently has three sponsors — Omar, Tlaib and Democratic Georgia Rep. John Lewis, an icon of the Civil Rights movement who marched on Selma.
Omar, Tlaib and other BDS supporters say that in urging businesses, artists and universities to sever ties with Israel, they are using nonviolent means to oppose unjust policies toward Palestinians. Israel counters that the movement masks its motivation to delegitimize or destroy the Jewish state.
Both Omar and Tlaib have been frequent sources of controversy since their ascension to Capitol Hill earlier this year.
Omar was accused of anti-Semitism in February after she said that American support for Israel was driven by money from the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC. In May, Tlaib sparked a similar firestorm after she claimed her Palestinian ancestors “had to suffer” for the Jews to have a safe haven in the wake of the Holocaust.
Omar has said she supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Tlaib, however, has advocated for a single-state outcome.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-will-allow-bds-backing-congresswomen-omar-tlaib-to-enter-country/
Angemon says
I bet this bint is against American meddling in foreign affairs…
gravenimage says
Rashida Tlaib hates both the freedom of speech and Israel
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What could be more Islamic than hating Jews and freedom of speech?
Good to see that most of Congress–including one of the non-Muslim members of the “Squad”–is opposed to BDS.
Kay says
It looks to me like Congressman Pressley is being used by the other squad members to lend them legitimacy.
I wish other Black congressmen would pull her aside and advise her how to distance herself from AOC, Omar, and Tlaib.
This vote was one step.
WPM says
Pressley is a communist like the AOC ,Omar and Tlaib will use them to further their agenda. If the Islamist every get into true power putting Sharia law into the of the law of the land , AOC ,Pressley and other like them will be the first to be put under the knife or thrown from a tall building or get a bullet to the back of their heads.. The useful idiots only have to look at what the Iranians did to members of their communist party in 1979.The mainstream democratic party of old is aging out the new ones will not publicly come out against the brainless progressives that the MSM has fallen in love with.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Kay and WPM.
Robert_k says
Rashida Tlaib compares the BDS movement’s boycott of Israel with the boycott of Nazi Germany. Actually If Rashida compared the BDS movement’s boycott of Israel to the Nazi boycott of the Jews, she would have it right.
The slogan of the boycott was “Germans! Protect yourselves! Don’t buy from the Jews!””
Lavéritétriomphera says
I am not American, but it seems she does not allow a reconsideration of her approach of the Palestinian problem. Perhaps she does not know that tolerance begins with the fact that one “minds” his doubts. That is why Islam cannot be an ideology of peace and forgiveness because the Muslims are not allowed to put into question the Quran and the condemnation in general of the “infidels” and in particular of the Jews.
Tom says
This foul mouthed woman is filled with hatred for anything Jewish or Israeli.
She, and her supporters will not succeed in their objective of alienating Israel because the facts tell a different story to the world of how Israel has reached out to assist Palestinians who live in Israel or who visit to get medical aid.
What is the return for Israel? rockets, bombs and killings perpetrated by Palestinians on the Israeli population.
Israel, just like other countries, is not perfect, but, unlike Israel most other democratic countries are not in a fight for their very survival, surrounded by countries who’s governments and populations are ideologically bent on Israels destruction and the killing of its citizens simply because they are Jews.
No, this woman and her Muslim Brotherhood inspired fellow subversives will not succeed in demonizing and condemning Israel, because good people of all faiths and beliefs see Israel as a beacon of light in an area of the world that has become very dark and filled with hatred.
OLD GUY says
ONE WORD: TRAITOR!