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Abortive Tlaib/Omar Israel trip sponsored by jihad-linked org that claimed Jews used Christian blood for Passover

Aug 16, 2019 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

But Israel is the villain, for banning two people who are dedicated to its destruction. Sure.

“Rashida Tlaib And Ilhan Omar’s Botched Israel Trip Was Sponsored By Terror-Linked Organization,” by Jason Hopkins, Daily Caller, August 15, 2019:

Rashida Tlaib’s and Ilhan Omar’s cancelled trip to Israel was sponsored by a Palestinian-based organization whose members have expressed sympathy for terrorist activities and support the BDS movement.

The Israeli government announced Thursday it would not allow Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota to enter their borders for a planned trip into Palestinian territory, citing the two lawmakers’ support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Under Israeli law, anyone who supports the boycott of Israel may be banned from the country….

The trip was sponsored by the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue & Democracy, better known as Miftah.

Despite billing itself as a peaceful organization dedicated to promoting Palestine’s democratic institutions, Miftah for years has carried notable ties to terrorist sympathizers, has openly accused Israel of atrocities and supports the boycott of Israeli products.

Hanan Ashrawi, the founder and chair of the Miftah board of directors, brushed off Palestinian terrorist attacks during a January 2017 interview by saying they are “seen by the people as resistance. And you cannot somehow adopt the language of either the international community or the occupier by describing anybody who resists as terrorists.”

Miftah’s own website describes Wafa Idrees, a female suicide bomber, as one of a few young women who chose to “join the ranks of the resistance movement.” Idrees detonated herself in January 2002, killing an 81-year-old and wounding another 150 Israelis.

Miftah was forced to retract and apologize in 2013 for an article published on its website that accused the Jewish people of using “the blood of Christians in the Jewish Passover.” The Ramallah-based organization had originally defended the writing, but reversed course amid massive outcry….

These details were not lost on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“[T]he itinerary of the two Congresswomen reveals that the sole purpose of their visit is to harm Israel and increase incitement against it,” the prime minister wrote in a statement published Thursday. “In addition, the organization that is funding their trip is Miftah, which is an avid supporter of BDS, and among whose members are those who have expressed support for terrorism against Israel….

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic antisemitism, Leftist/Islamic Alliance, Palestinian jihad Tagged With: Miftah, Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue & Democracy


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  1. Liz says

    Aug 16, 2019 at 5:31 pm

    Aren’t members of Congress only allowed to accept gifts of less than $50?

    • ooicu812 says

      Aug 16, 2019 at 5:45 pm

      Great point. These two definitely need to be investigated.

      • mortimer says

        Aug 16, 2019 at 7:57 pm

        x 2 … INVESTIGATE!

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 19, 2019 at 11:41 pm

        Yes–they should be investigated.

    • James Lincoln says

      Aug 16, 2019 at 7:51 pm

      Liz,

      To be precise, the gift value limit is actually $49.99.

      I’m not kidding…

      • CRUSADER says

        Aug 17, 2019 at 1:59 am

        Is that enough for a deck of Mohammad playing cards?

        Imagine if every member of Congress got a deck!

    • Kadok says

      Aug 17, 2019 at 9:06 am

      not if your name is Omar, Talib, Cortez or Presley, you can say what ever you like steal what ever you like, attack who ever you like and do it all under the “we are women of color” race baiting card.;

  2. gravenimage says

    Aug 16, 2019 at 5:33 pm

    Abortive Tlaib/Omar Israel trip sponsored by jihad-linked org that claimed Jews used Christian blood for Passover
    ……………..

    This does not surprise–what grotesque calumny.

    Meanwhile, those spilling Christian blood in so many places are *Muslims*, not Jews.

  3. ooicu812 says

    Aug 16, 2019 at 5:42 pm

    Promotion of Global Dialogue & Democracy, Communist propaganda was/is infamous for the tyrannical deceit behind the humanitarian names of their organizations. All these power hungry control freaks use the same playbook. Trust me, they want no dialogue but, a global mob rule. Rashida Tlaib And Ilhan Omar’s are useful tools for the Muslim Brotherhood. I can’t believe these two terror linked POS are allowed to stay in congress. These are criminal terrorist associations according to the NDAA and warrant investigation.

    • KWJ says

      Aug 17, 2019 at 9:25 am

      I can’t believe these two terror linked POS are allowed to stay in congress.

      *************

      I was just reading the Algemeiner article about former Miss Iraq Sarah Idnan blasting Ilhan Omar for her anti-Semitism, connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, anti-Americanism and pro Islamic expansionism. Sarah moves to the US because she was threatened for being in a photo with then Miss Israel.

      One of Omar’s weak replies was that Sarah is not in her Minnesota district. Congress votes on legislation, can change amendments to the Constitution and other laws that affect the entire nation. Does she not understand her role in Congress?

      As well as other clueless things she’s said and supported, she is unfit for being a Congress member if she doesn’t get her role. Of course she didn’t reply to what Sarah said because deflection of facts is her and MB’s modus operandi nor could Ilhan muster that Miss Iraq was threatened by people who have followed through with such threats. The knee jerk defending of Omar by the Left and those who voted for her is just more identity politics and a kind of affirmative action despite Ilhan lacking integrity and not very smart.

      Tlaib is just about Palestine and the goal of weakening the US’s alliance with Israel so they can pursue Hamas’s state’s goal of destroying the Israeli nation and occupying it, which then they would proceed to ruin and discriminate no less revenge against Jews. Heck, Palestinians were the largest bunch to join ISIS.

  4. Lotus says

    Aug 16, 2019 at 6:18 pm

    Three points nail this issue.

    1. Entry into a country is a privilege, not a right.

    2. The two congresswomen were only going to Israel to stir up trouble and create publicity for themselves.

    3. They are not part of any House foreign affairs committee, nor have they been tasked to go to Israel by any such body. So they should stay in the US and deal with the issues and problems in the districts where they have been elected.

    Instead of working for their constituents as they should, they prefer gallivanting around the world on publicity-seeking trips. meddling in issues that are outside the mandate given them by their electorate.

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 16, 2019 at 11:33 pm

      Rep Omar
      ========

      Congressional committee assignments:

      Committee on the Budget
      Committee on Education and Labor
      Committee on Foreign Affairs

      Caucuses:

      Congressional Progressive Caucus whip

      • Lotus says

        Aug 17, 2019 at 12:49 am

        Oh, so Ilhan Omar has already managed to get on the Foreign Affairs Committee? That figures. Right from the start she has wanted to meddle.

        But she is not a member of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and International Terrorism. So Israel is not a part of her brief.

        I guess the voters in her district won’t be seeing much of her: dealing with the everyday concerns of ordinary people doesn’t garner the same publicity as jaunts to foreign parts.

  5. Angemon says

    Aug 16, 2019 at 6:38 pm

    Rashida Tlaib’s and Ilhan Omar’s cancelled trip to Israel

    Well, “Palestine”, according to their travel plans. And maps on their office:

    https://forward.com/fast-forward/417039/israel-relabeled-as-palestine-on-map-in-rashida-tlaibs-office/

    Oh, and Tall-Tales Tlaib begged to be let in Israel to visit her family, saying that she’d respect all restrictions Israel asked of her and would not promote boycotts against Israel. When Israel said yes, she backed down and refused, claiming “humiliation” and “oppression”.

    https://nypost.com/2019/08/16/rashida-tlaib-rejects-israels-offer-to-allow-her-to-visit-family-in-west-bank/

    Almost as if she had expected Israel to turn her request down and allow her to be a sympathetic victim – “See? I said I would do what Israel asked of me, but even then I’m not allowed tto go and see my family. *snif* *snif*”

    • somehistory says

      Aug 16, 2019 at 7:43 pm

      +1000

    • somehistory says

      Aug 16, 2019 at 7:47 pm

      Also possible she thought they might allow her to go and then declined, having never intended to visit her grandmother, but wanting to say she had the last laugh, making Israel give in.

    • Westman says

      Aug 16, 2019 at 10:47 pm

      Muslim victim logic: I did it to myself and it’s your fault or the fault of a Jew.

      Tlaib: “I refused to see Granny because they wouldn’t let me also meet with terrorists, therefore, they kept me from seeing Granny.” She didn’t take her son to see Granny, now, did she? It never was about Granny…

      • Robert_k says

        Aug 17, 2019 at 1:45 am

        Muslim Victim Logic:
        How many Palestinians does it take to install a light bulb? None: They sit around in the dark and blame the Jews.

  6. Battle says

    Aug 16, 2019 at 8:46 pm

    Jihadi jew-haters.

  7. mortimer says

    Aug 16, 2019 at 11:04 pm

    These delusional idiots have never examined the KORANIC DOCTRINE regarding the Jews living in Israel.

    The Koran actually commands Jews to ‘dwell in the Land’ (of Israel) in Koran 5:21, 17:104.

    Sheikh Abdul Palazzi wrote that the Koran assigned ownership of Israel to the Jews:

    “”Quran explicitly refers to the return of the Jews to the Land of Israel before the Last Judgment”

    “Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel was never abolished. Moreover, the Quran explicitly refers to the return of the Jews to the Land of Israel before the Last Judgment when it says in the Surah of the Children of Israel, verse 104:

    And thereafter We [God] said to the Children of Israel: ‘Dwell securely in the Promised Land. And when the last warning will come to pass, we will gather you together in a mingled crowd.’

    Therefore, from an Islamic point of view, Israel is the legitimate owner of the land God deeded to her and whose borders were defined by Abraham in Genesis.

    All recent claims according to which the “Assignment of the Land of Israel to the Jewish people was withdrawn or abrogated” are bereft of scriptural or traditional evidence. The Quran mentions the territory that God assigned to the Jewish people, but neither it nor the traditional Islamic sources mention a supposed withdrawal.”

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 16, 2019 at 11:16 pm

      Pious Muslims believe the Jews will return to the Levant right before Muslims slaughter them all.

      • CRUSADER says

        Aug 16, 2019 at 11:30 pm

        Most interesting to study Ezekiel 38…. for prophecy.

  8. Relic says

    Aug 16, 2019 at 11:14 pm

    Israel

  9. Relic says

    Aug 16, 2019 at 11:19 pm

  10. CRUSADER says

    Aug 16, 2019 at 11:27 pm

    Tlaib is such a grandstander and spotlight stealer.
    Trump plays them off as if the Squad is still in junior high.

    Meanwhile, for the rest of us…. be sure to visit Israel.
    Do not hesitate from going to the Holy Land of deep mystery and history.

    I like how the Israelis profile flight passengers into and out of their nation.
    Also saves from some of the silliness of the normal TSA procedures.
    The more you go to Israel the less they worry about you!
    You are deemed a friend of Israel after a while.

    I make sure I see a film having to do with Israel before I go visit there, just to get me extra jazzed to be going. And the experience is always different every time. Always something new going on in such an old place which sets the verve for the MiddleEast.

    One flight from LAX for instance, nonstop, had the plane leaving in similar climate and environs that upon arriving on tarmac at Ben Gurion airport ( Natbag ) after wiping the sleep from our eyes, it seemed as though we never left SoCal …

    If you go to Jerusalem be sure to visit the FOZ !
    Visit the website now in fact:

    https://www.fozmuseum.com/explore-foz/

  11. Fred Dawes says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 12:08 am

    Omar and all “squal gangs”, of Islam and all Muslims who hate freedom Justice, and Gods WILL, ‘To take care Of THE People of Israel and any American’s Who love freedom.

  12. duh swami says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 2:48 am

    Omar and the Muslims have no legitimate business in Congress…

  13. Bob Jones says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 5:33 am

    Can anyone explain to me why I feel sick when I see their picture?

    • don vito says

      Aug 17, 2019 at 11:21 pm

      I’ll try to splain it to you, but I do admit to projecting. In this picture these two devout moslems are scheming to take away the civil right of all kufrs. Some people do something and kufrs lose their civil rights(negate the 2nd amend). The devout moslem on the left is also trying to impeach the M-Fer, but she is still losing to him.

  14. ronyvo says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 5:37 am

    As an American, I am truly ashamed to have these 2 Muslim women in our Congress. It doesn’t make sense what so ever to ALLOW such hateful enemies to represent any ‘American’. The horrible ugly behavior is yet to come. I expected all kind of evil surprises as a result of Obama zeft destructive plans, but not to that extend. It is a terrifying nightmare. 2 Devils showed up in our political ‘theatre’, as if we need more corruption!!!
    God (not allah) hep us.

  15. E T says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 8:21 am

    National Director of The Democratic Socialists of America, RAIR, Maria L. Svart proudly says Tlaib and OAC are supporting members.

  16. E T says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 8:36 am

    Well, it would not be the first time in history Muslims worked with the communists
    to bring the country down. The Brotherhood hoods must be soooo proud of the skanks.

  17. Dave De La Rond says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 9:29 am

    What a shocker the old antisemitic witch herself Hanan Ashrawi is behind the funding of the 2 Jew Haters, Omar and Tlaib .How strange that Ashrawi never mentions the PanamaPapers where she’s one of the 17 members of the Palestinian Murdering dictatorship where her personnel wealth is listed at $950 Million,Her good friend and Business partner Sula Arafat is at $2.3 Billion and now lives in a €17 Million Townhouse on 161 Av George V in Paris

  18. Linda Strawn says

    Aug 18, 2019 at 8:47 pm

    That pic of them laughing reminds me of Beavis and Butthead.

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