“Denying visit to duly elected members of Congress is not consistent with being an ally. And denying millions of people freedom of movement or expression or self determination is not consistent with being a democracy.”
The sponsors of their trip have been linked to anti-Semitism and jihad terrorism. They had nothing to say about that.
The reason why the freedom of movement of any “Palestinian” is restricted is because of “Palestinian” genocidal incitement and celebration of the jihad murder of Israeli civilians. They had nothing to say about that.
The “Palestinians” have turned down numerous peace offers from Israel, not content with anything other than the total destruction of Israel, as I show in my forthcoming book The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process. They had nothing to say about that.
“Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar denounce Israel’s travel restrictions during press conference,” by Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, August 19, 2019:
Standing side by side on Monday, Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar forcefully denounced the controversial decision by the Israeli government to deny them entry into the country, casting the travel restrictions as part of a broader effort to suppress voices of dissent against the treatment of Palestinians in occupied and disputed territories.
“Netanyahu’s decision to deny us entry might be unprecedented for members of Congress,” Omar said during a press conference, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “But it is the policy of his government when it comes to Palestinians. This is the policy of his government when it comes to anyone who holds views that threaten the occupation.”
“The only way to preserve unjust policy is to suppress people’s freedom of expression, freedom of association and freedom of movement,” Omar added….
The Israeli government did offer to let Tlaib in on humanitarian grounds to visit her 90-year-old Palestinian grandmother on the condition that she did not promote a boycott of Israel. Tlaib initially agreed, but later rejected the offer, saying she would not make the visit under “oppressive conditions.”
Getting visibly emotional, Tlaib said she made the decision to not accept the conditional travel permit after consulting with her grandmother and other family members.
“Through tears, at three o’clock in the morning, we all decided as a family that I could not go until I was a free, American United States Congresswoman coming there, not only to see my grandmother but to talk to Palestinian and Israeli organizations that believed that my grandmother deserves human dignity as much as anyone else does,” she said….
Omar suggested the travel restrictions contradict longstanding beliefs by Republican and Democratic administrations that Israel is one of America’s most steadfast allies and the sole true democracy in the Middle East.
“Denying visit to duly elected members of Congress is not consistent with being an ally,” she said. “And denying millions of people freedom of movement or expression or self determination is not consistent with being a democracy.”
James says
Tlaib and Omar do not believe in democracy or human rights. They know how to use the buzz words and push the buttons that persuade people. They basically want the Muslims to take over Israel, even if they use talk about freedom and human rights. Sharia does not make people equal, so they are just trying to manipulate people who do believe.
mortimer says
There is certainly no democracy in the areas controlled by the Pallies in the West Bank and Gaza. It’s a dictatorship by corrupt warlords who rule by decree and fail to provide even medical services to their own people in spite of huge international aid. Tlaib and Omar are supporting corrupt dictators and thugs who deny the people’s civil liberties and human rights.
Tlaib and Omar have no shame and lie every time they open their mouths. When will their constituents denounce them and deprive them of their legitimacy? Surely, the good people of their districts did not want to elect virulent anti-Semites.
murad says
Look who is talking about democracy? Ilhan and Rashudi are government inside the government. They have 157 million followers. They are working …. but for whom? A government By ilhan, by Rachida for Somalis and Pallestines.
Colonization with home help. Easy. Real democracy is when you are helpless when your country is directed to serve Palest and somalis and you cannot prevent it. Helpless.
Who can help you if you are your own lethal enemy?
When Israel agreed to give them visa to visit Israel THEY refuse. Does anyone notice that except President Trump. It was the basest trick.
Stan Holewinski says
Wake up America. This country is being taken over without a shot being fired. People that have hidden agendas and illegal immigrants. My grandparents were imagrents but came legally with no government hand outs. That’s the way it should be.
Mike says
How many husbands these two have and hiw many chilldren do they have with each one of them ?
Jule Bacal says
I want these two out of Congress now. I want a Muslim Ban. I want a naziban. I want a KKKLan ban. No one has the freedom or the Right to persecute others and to teach their children to do the same. It is Unconstitutional. AntiAmerican and ‘freedom’ does not mean the right of Supremacists. No more reading the Qur’an in Mosques. No more Mosques. Do not confuse real freedom with rabid hatred, threats, bigotry….those are not rights.
jayell says
Israel might not be an ally as far as Tlaib and Omar are personally concerned, but I’m sure it’s a totally different story for the remaining 300-or-so-million US citizens. And as for anything to do with ‘democracy’, does this gruesome twosome actually understand what the word is supposed to mean?
Jule Bacal says
They think Democracy means frenzied mob in jihad taking over.They know nothing of the Constitution.
Hindu American says
It should be obvious to all of us that Tlaib is a congenital liar and, now, a committer of perjury. She has conveniently altered facts to suit her real racist, radical political agenda.
In her “official” request of August 15 for a “personal” visa to enter Israel (a copy of which is available online) she specifically states the only purpose of her visit to be ” my grandmother, who is in her 90’s…this could be my last opportunity to see her”. However, in this recent press conference she now now states the reason for her travel to be “not only to see my grandmother but to talk to Palestinian and Israeli organizations that believed that my grandmother deserves human dignity as much as anyone else does…”.
Tlaib has now conveniently changed her story to have a political twist, and used her grandmother as a tool. I am glad Israel laid down strict conditions.
By the way, are our congresspersons allowed to make personal requests on official letterheads? I hope not.
mortimer says
Agree with HA. Tlaib is saying that she cannot be pleased by anything that Israel does even if they were to give all the Pallies $1 million each. Tlaib hates the existence of any version of Israel. Why did they vote for this lightweight bigot and supporter of terrorism?
carpediadem says
Excellent post, HA!
Eur says
I don’t know any Muslim majority country that is really a democracy. There are things about Israel that I do not like but it seems obscene that Muslim women and therefore supporters of theocratic governments criticize Israel, they do it by simple religious communitarianism. The Somali woman could criticize Somalia, Sudan, Egypt … but no, she criticizes Israel.
mortimer says
True pluralism is impossible under Islam, because Islam is primarily a political doctrine. Each of the Islamic sects believes it has the correct doctrine that Allah wishes them to impose on the others. There can be no compromise if it is the eternal decree of Allah, so the Islamic sects fight each other for supremacy over the other sects in order to impose their own ‘correct’ version of Islam and suppress ‘incorrect’ versions of Islam.
This leads to discrimination, inequalities, resentment, bribery, insurgency, instability and revolution in all Muslim countries.
Islam has no doctrine that permits pluralism, since over 60% of the Koran is about the need for supremacism and how to impose it against the will of those dominated.
Jule Bacal says
Its Islam. It was the way she was raised and what she thinks Allah agrees with. Its really deep withing them and for Islam to be the Supremacist it says it is, Judaism must be wiped from history as followers of Abraham. Only Islam says it is still from Abraham and if Jews Follow them they can be somewhat redeemed. Other wise…they are out of the line (therefore Christianity is out as well and Of course All the other pagans like Hindu, Buddhists, Janins, Sikhs, Zoroaster, Sufi, Atheists, agnostics, ect)
mike says
this woman dose not and will never speak for me
If she wants to fix the middle east move to Palestine run for office and fix the world from there
Kay says
Is it time to remove her from the Foreign Affairs Committee yet?
Other Dems? Cowering in your boots?
FYI says
Speaking of an “unjust policy”…
Their pagan Arab god al LAH {“the BEST of deceivers” k3:54}says women are only HALF the value of men.
al LAH:
The god with ONE leg and TWO RIGHT HANDS{sahih muslim 1827/ k68:42}
A god who,interestingly enough,does not deny the right of the Jews to be in Israel
k5:20-26
{Perhaps omar and tlaib should read their “holy” book: but of course we know muslims don’t do that}
Some might say that allah’s koranic insistence that a muslima’s testimony has only HALF the worth of man{k2:282} due to what muhammed{APFh allah prays for him} said was “the DEFICIENCY of the woman’s mind”{sahih bukhari 2658} constitutes an “unjust policy” towards women.
Poor omar and tlaib:They are only halflings to al LAH and muhammed.
They will,never,ever be equal in value to a muslim man.
al LAH has decreed it.
isn’t that an “unjust policy” on the part of al LAH,muhammed and islam?
isn’t 1,400 years of koranically-inspired islamic imperialism,endless wars and invading countries massacring Christians,Jews,Buddhists,Hindus,other muslims etc,on behalf of their one legged,two right armed fake Arab god…an “unjust policy”?
JAW says
In all fairrness, surah almaidah actually says that as long as the people of moses are there, the followers of muhammad shouldnt enter, but i believe it was “fixed” by a later verse and the hebrew people were kind of butchered several times since in israel so a muslim could point out it means all of it belongs to them now….we could point out though—the muslim holy land isnt supposed to be israel, actually mecca, so actually they have no right to own it, just “visit”
Jule Bacal says
It says Jews were cursed for disobediance and therefore are no longer following Abraham. It says the only one following Abraham correctly is Islam, the one and only True Religion/law on earth and in paradise. Any Jews (or Christians) who decide to repent & follow Mohammed as the last and final prophet can almost be redeemed. They say Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus were actually all Muslim. They say everyone is born Muslim but gets detoured by others. They say muslims are sent to get everyone in line again. That IS what they say. That Jews no longer have claim to Abraham and must be removed from all his sites & fought till Judgement Day. Islam is diabolical, totalitarian, Brutish, cruel, fearful, terrible, deceitful, cunning, apartheid, Supremacist and no way a voice of God or anything almighty but a Warlord voice ruling without Question/doubt/respect for human life & only meant to form a Caliphate for Warlords with all member robots doing the dirty work. As a matter of fact, if you read Qur’an/Hadiths you find its even WORSE than I say.
BRUCE says
That is why people under Muslim rule get there heads cut off there hands if they steal. Unflexable of others you have all of the other countries to live stay out of Israel long live israel
FYI says
The Biblical Judeo-Christian God
The God who ALREADY owns the world and doesn’t need to use violence to control it.
“Put your sword back in its place.All who take the sword will die by the sword.Don’t you know I could call on my Father and He would send me more than TWELVE ARMIES of angels”
Matthew 25 v 52-53
Jesus didn’t need to use force or armies to preach the Kingdom of God,did He?
So the ACTUAL GOD does not need to use war,violence,lying to control the world since HE ALREADY OWNS IT.
{But note that the muslim Arab god al LAH DOES need to use force}
VERSUS
The islamic koranic god{omar’s pagan Arab god al LAH ,the “BEST of deceivers” k3:54,a god whose greatest enemy is a man called MALIK AL AMLAK(king of kings:SAHIH MUSLIM vol 5 hadith # 5611}
The god who clearly doesn’t already own the world which is why he has to use violence to seize it.
muhammed needed to use force and armies to preach his murderously evil islamic states.
Just as his followers continue to do today.
Christians sing:
“He’s {…ALREADY..}got the whole world in His hands”
muslims chant:
“he{..Lah…} WANTS the whole world in his.. {TWO RIGHT} HANDS”
This is hard for muslims to get but al LAH is NOT the Biblical God.
al LAH can try,but he won’t be defeating YHWH
mortimer says
Dear FYI, Muslims might be convinced if you showed them the Koranic verses that assign the Land of Israel to the Jews and that command Jews to live in Israel. When Jews live in Israel, and make their own laws (as Allah says), the Jews are in agreement with Allah in the Koran.
Jews Dwell in the Land of Israel Koran Sura 5:21, Sura 17:104
“Quran explicitly refers to the return of the Jews to the Land of Israel before the Last Judgment” – Sheikh Abdul Palazzi PhD
FYI says
And yet,despite what their koran says, the iranians never stop telling us how much they would love to wipe Israel out.
I don’t think THEY would be convinced.
Even if the sky opened up and Moses himself appeared..
“By the way..just to clarify..Israel is the ancestral homeland of the Jews.And Who the hell are these “palestinians”?”
Jule Bacal says
That was BEFORE they disobeyed and got Cursed for being all the stereotypes. Then they lost the line of Abraham which now belongs Only to Islam with Muslims sent to make everyone come back by following Mohammed. If not, they are lost, but can still exist if under the strict Rule of Islam as submissive lowest class people who must pay for protection. Believe me, they have an answer, a rationalization and excuse for everything they wish to do.
Ron says
God will NEVER abandon Isreal or the Jews. We’ve made him extremely angry at times and we’ve certainly been severely punished for it.
We’ve mostly gotten it right ever since the Babylonian exile.
But God made an everlasting covenant that will stand forever! He even says so clearly in the Bible.
He has been bringing the Jews back to the land, just as he said he would . And “The Land” is flourishing for the first time since the Jews were dispersed from Isreal so long ago. Without the Jews , Isreal was a dust bowl.
The Palestinians could learn a thing or two, and greatly improve their own lives ,if they’d just wake up and shed their vicious hatred.
Jule Bacal says
My above comment is what Islam says…..not myself. Even Amaddiya–which came from India from some Indian guy who said he was a prophet & Sunni/Shia say they are not even Muslims (of course) And Ron is right and Israel was never cursed but often humbly took blame for too much in my opinion. And others took full advantage of that.
JAW says
K3:54 says “And the disbelievers planned, but Allah planned. And Allah is the best of planners.”
gravenimage says
“Best of plotters” is the most common translation.
JAW says
SahMus 5611 says that Malik al-Amlak is most hated b/c theres no king but allah, doesnt call him anything
mortimer says
Tlaib and Omar 1) deny that Israel has any right to exist, no matter how small … any Israel (even 1 sq,mile) is too much. 2) deny that Hamas is a terrorist organization which pays terrorists and their families to slay 3) deny that Hamas’s intentionally targeting killing and maiming of Israeli citizens constitutes war crimes.
Tlaib and Omar deny they are promoting terrorism.
mortimer says
Grandstanding in support of terrorism.
Hindu American says
Exactly.
These two scheming muslimas had jointly planned this loaded request – conditional approval – denial gamesmanship to a T. The entire plan was to make a big drama out of it, thus attracting attention and “score” some brownie points. Tlaib allegedly desired “all of a sudden to see her 90-year old granny”. Why did smug-face omar want to travel to Israel except to make trouble and paint herself a martyr?
Notice the young, gullible-looking staff members in that photo?
Barbarians are not just at the gate, they now live among us, using our charity, gullibility and naivete.
Jaladhi says
Both of these are deliberate liars! Period. They can’t be taken seriously by any any one except of course only by Muslims!
James Lincoln says
Jaladhi,
… And by leftist/Marxist/globalist/Islam apologists.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Israel’s Arab citizens have full political rights; they vote and run for office without any interference; 12 members of the Knesset are Arabs; Arabs have served on Israel’s Supreme Court, in its diplomatic corps, in the administration of the state.
The Gazan Arabs are not Israeli citizens; they vote, though the elections in Gaza are not nearly as free as those Israeli Arabs take part in; Hamas employs terror to keep itself in power. The Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank, similarly, are not Israeli citizens but have a high degree of autonomy and vote in their own elections. They last voted in 2005, for Mahmoud Abbas as President for a four-year term. No election has been held since then. That tells you all you need to know about “democracy” among the Palestinians.
Tlaib and Omar were not being kept out of Israel because of their anti-Israel views. Tens of thousands of people who disapprove of Israel are allowed into that country,every year. It was not their opinions, but their acts, their promotion of a boycott of Israeli goods to damage the state economically, that originally led to their being banned. Opinions and acts are different things.
Omar’s claim that Israel is not an ally will come as news to many in the State Department and the Pentagon. Israel will always be on America’s side; it is the only certain ally America has between Europe and Japan. It shares its intelligence on Islamic terrorism with the United States, as it,does with other members of NATO. Brilliant Israeli scientists develop weapons from anti-missile defenses, to the Stuxnet program that caused so many of Iran’s centrifuges to self-destruct, to new kinds of drones — that are shared with the Americans. No other country supplies the United States with as much advanced miitary technology, including cyberweapons. as Israel.
As for that teary-eyed business from Tlaib –“that my grandmother deserves human dignity as much as anyone else does,” does she think that her grandmother, in her long and limited life, has been treated wiith “the same human dignity” as the Muslim men in her family? Does anyone familiar with Islam think she’s been treated as an equal by the men? Of course not.
Terry Gain says
Hugh Fitzgerald
Thank you.
R Russell says
Maybe they don’t realise that more people in the West are gradually learning the meaning of the word, ‘taqiyya’.
somehistory says
“Denying visit to duly elected members of Congress” Not only is this very poor English grammar, but since when does any government have to allow “members” of another countries government to “visit”?
If people have the “right to self-determination”…then so does a government…friend or foe…have a “right” to determine just whom is allowed to “visit.” “duly elected members of” America’s Congress don’t possess special rights to enter other countries, any more than regular American born citizens have. Other governments may confer privileges upon members of America’s government that they do not confer upon the rest of us, but that is up to the decisions of each nation’s government.
These two ugly mosllim creatures are drunk with power. They believe they have more than is actually conferred upon “duly elected members of Congress,” but that is their own misunderstanding of the law and their moslim brain having been deluded into imagining they are superior to the rest of Congress and the average person.
These two evil, loudmouthed, pushy, demanding moslim females, remind me of Jezebel from the Bible Book of Kings. Jezebel was not a Jew, but was the daughter of the priest of ba’al…or bel…the false god that satan the devil was using at that time to mislead and attempt to destroy mankind. ba’al was the ‘face’ of satan then as islam is the current ‘face’ he presents to the world. Jezebel married Ahab, who became King of Israel, but her heart and soul belonged to ba’al. She was ready and more-than-willing to sacrifice every Jew to her false god. She pushed Ahab to do things that were against the best interests of Israel, and she had servants of the True God murdered because they wouldn’t serve her fake god and were telling the Jews the Truth of the matter.
In so many ways, these two…tlaib and omar…are just like wicked queen Jezebel. And they will have to answer one day for their evil.
Mr. Cohen says
23 total number of Arab countries
0 total number of Arab countries that are democracies
57 total number of Muslims countries
0 total number of Muslims countries that are democracies
1 total number of Jewish countries
1 total number of Jewish countries that are democracies
CRUSADER says
The Math adds up.
Hamas subtracts.
Mr. Cohen says
Mark R. Levin (a lawyer and best-selling author) said:
The examples of the [New York] Times’ and mass media’s hostility toward the Jewish State is not even a matter of indifference, as it was during the plight of European Jews in the 1930s and 1940s, which was horrifying.
Instead, there is frequently open and affirmative hostility toward the Jewish State, despite the fact that the small country, a democracy and an ally, faces daily threats of extermination from terrorists groups and surrounding terrorist states, including, if not especially, nuclear-weapons-obsessed Iran.
After examining more than a year’s worth of recent coverage by the [New York] Times, Gilead Ini of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America [CAMERA] concluded that the [New York] Times:
“consistently flouts the rules of ethical journalism.
And it does so as part of a campaign to protect
anti-Israel activists and steer public opinion
against the Jewish State.”
SOURCE:
The ‘Times’ and Israel: A Review of 2018
by Gilead Ini, February 2019
http://www.CommentaryMagazine.com/articles/the-times-and-israel-a-review-of-2018/
SOURCE: Unfreedom of the Press
(chapter 6, page 163) by Mark R. Levin,
published by Threshold Editions, year 2019, NYC,
ISBN 9781476773094 * ISBN 1476773092
Mr. Cohen says
Mr. Ross Perot
(two-time USA Presidential candidate) said:
“Israel is a beacon in its part of the world
in terms of its democratic government.
It is a role model to the others there…”
SOURCE: Remembering Ross Perot’s
relationship with Israel and the American Jewish
community by Jackson Richman, 2019 July 10
http://www.jns.org/remembering-ross-perots-relationship-with-israel-and-the-amreican-jewish-community/
Mr. Cohen says
Lord Ian Livingston of England said:
“Whilst the Israeli Defense Forces are not
perfect, the obsession of focusing on them
despite being the most moral and professional
army in the Middle East is very strange.”
SOURCE: Ten Baroness Tonge
Pilloried at House of Lords Session She Initiated
on Israel’s Treatment of Palestinian Children
by Benjamin Kerstein, 2019 July 8
http://www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/08/itiated-on-israels-treatment-of-palestinian-children/
Mr. Cohen says
Mr. John Rossomando said:
“[IUMS Trustee Sheikh Hassan Ould] Aldo
and the [Muslim] Brotherhood use language
similar to what Hamas used in its original charter,
which rejected any peaceful coexistence.
To them, Palestine is part of a waqf,
a holy Islamic trust, that no person can negotiate away.”
SOURCE: Muslim Brotherhood,
Hamas: No Peace as Long as Israel Exists
by Mr. John Rossomando, 2019 July 1
http://www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/01/muslim-brotherhood-hamas-no-peace-as-long-as-israel-exists/
CRUSADER says
WAQF — an inalienable charitable endowment under Islamic law, which typically involves donating a building, plot of land or other assets for Muslim religious or charitable purposes with no intention of reclaiming the assets.
The term waqf literally means “confinement and prohibition” or causing a thing to stop or stand still.[6] The legal meaning of Waqf according to Imam Abu Hanifa, is the detention of a specific thing in the ownership of waqf and the devoting of its profit or products “in charity of poors or other good objects”.
Imam Abu Yusuf and Muhammad say: Waqf signifies the extinction of the waqif’s ownership in the thing dedicated and detention of all the thing in the implied ownership of God, in such a manner that its profits may revert to or be applied “for the benefit of Mankind”.
CRUSADER says
HAMAS CHARTER
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
The Covenant
of the
Islamic Resistance Movement
18 August 1988
Mr. Cohen says
Josep Borrell Fontelles, the newly elected
Chairman of the European Union,
recently said in an interview in Politico:
“Iran wants to wipe Israel out, nothing new about that.
You have to live with it.”
SOURCE: Lessons in the appeasement of Iran
by Sarah N. Stern [President of the Endowment
for Middle East Truth] 2019 July 12
http://www.jns.org/opinion/lessons-in-the-appeasement-of-iran/
http://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/politico-brussels-playbook-hungarys-change-of-heart-us-eu-relationship-burns-fighting-words/
Mr. Cohen says
Yigal Carmon [President of MEMRI dot org] said:
A popular Arab saying goes,
“The Americans are good people — they can easily be deceived.”
SOURCE: Americans are good people —
just ask the Qatari Emir by Yigal Carmon, 2019/7/14
http://www.jns.org/opinion/the-americans-are-good-people-just-ask-the-qatari-emir
Mr. Cohen says
Miss Ayaan Hirsi Ali [a Somalian-born ex-Muslim] said:
[In many Muslim countries], corrupt rulers play
an intricate game to stay in power.
Their signature move is the promise to “free”
the Holy Land — that is, to eliminate the Jewish state.
SOURCE: Anti-Semitism Is Hard to
Unlearn but it’s Possible — Even for Ilhan Omar
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/politics-current-affairs/2019/07/anti-semitism-is-hard-to-unlearn-but-its-possible-even-for-ilhan-omar/
===================================
Miss Ayaan Hirsi Ali [a Somalian-born ex-Muslim] said:
There is very little freedom of expression in Muslim-majority
countries, and state-owned media churn out anti-Semitic
and anti-Israel propaganda daily — as do even media groups
that style themselves as critical of Muslim autocracies,
such as Al Jazeera and Al-Manar.
SOURCE: Anti-Semitism Is Hard to
Unlearn but it’s Possible — Even for Ilhan Omar
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/politics-current-affairs/2019/07/anti-semitism-is-hard-to-unlearn-but-its-possible-even-for-ilhan-omar/
CRUSADER says
TRUMP RIPS DEMS’ EMOTIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE ON ISRAEL:
‘I DON’T BUY REP. TLAIB’S TEARS’
DEMS ABANDONED ISRAEL, JEWS SHOULD ABANDON THEM
Elizabeth Pipko, founder of The Exodus Movement, spoke exclusively with Fox News following the president’s comments suggesting that Jewish Americans, who vote for Democrats show a lack of knowledge or “great disloyalty” to Israel.
“Look, the Democrats have shown with their words and actions over the last several years that they are taking Jews and their support totally for granted. President Trump was discussing Jewish Americans and their loyalty to themselves, their faith, and everything that we have gone through. It’s hard to imagine supporting the left when they have turned so far against us,” said Pipko.
Pipko is a former Trump 2016 campaign staffer, who made headlines earlier this year when she announced her support for President Trump, and co-founded Jexodus — now known as The Exodus Movement. According to their website, The Exodus Movement is comprised of “proud Jewish Americans who reject the hypocrisy, anti-Americanism, and anti-Semitism of the rising far-left.”
“[The Exodus Movement is] hoping to inspire Jews, and I think all people actually, to vote with their conscience and their beliefs and not with any fears whatsoever, and I think the further the Democrats shift to the left, the harder it is for any religious person to align with them,” Pipko said in an earlier Fox News interview.
Model and activist Elizabeth Pipko on how her faith influences her career and politicsVideo
On Tuesday, Trump spoke with reporters in the Oval Office about his feud with Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu barred the Muslim congresswomen from entering the country.
“I think any Jewish people that votes for a Democrat — I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” Trump said.
The president also accused Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar of being anti-Semitic and argued they “hate” Israel and Jewish people.
“Where has the Democratic Party gone?” Trump said, adding, “Where have they gone — where they are defending these two people over the state of Israel?”
Democrats were quick to call Trump out for his use of the word “disloyalty.”
“At a time when anti-Semitic incidents have increased — due to the president’s emboldening of white nationalism — Trump is repeating an anti-Semitic trope,” Halie Soifer, the executive Director of Jewish Democratic Council of America, said in a statement.
But a prominent Jewish Republican group backed up Trump’s language.
“President Trump is right, it shows a great deal of disloyalty to oneself to defend a party that protects/emboldens people that hate you for your religion,” tweeted the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Both Congresswomen have been outspoken in their support for a movement to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel, and have championed the movement in the House.
Pipko also said that the Congresswomen promote antisemitism, and she faults others in their party, who have failed to condemn their allegedly antisemitic statements.
“The BDS bill that’s currently being pushed in the House is yet another data point showing the heavy anti-Israel drift of the party and one that completely promotes antisemitism in our country,” said Pipko. It’s one thing to have disagreements about Israel and even to be critical of Israel’s policies. But to turn so far against Israel, and to refuse to condemn so many blatantly anti-Semitic remarks is something I never thought I would witness by our elected officials in today’s day and age.”
Pipko also mentioned President Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, marking it the “true capital of Israel.”
“The idea of moving the embassy to Jerusalem was one that was supported on both sides of the aisle for many years and even promised by previous presidents,” Pipko said. “And let’s not forget, President Trump was the only one to deliver on his promise, proving time and time again that he’s the best friend Jewish Americans could ask for.”
DogOnPorch says
The Arabs started this war now they want a do-over. While we’re at it, should we be allowing Germany to take a swipe a Poland in order to get back East Prussia and Pomerania?
Of course not…why should the war mongering Arabs?
Losers don’t dictate terms.
Walter Sieruk says
Those two characters ,Tlaib and Omar,are only exposing their own ignorance when they say such fool statements.
Angemon says
Since when being a democracy means you have to let foreign agents out to get you decide your border policies?
Rob says
In 1967 when Israel pushed the then occupying power – Jordan, out of the West Bank, Palestinian life expectancy was 49 years. Tlaib’s grandmother was at leat 40 in 1967. It is unlikely she would have survived to 90+ with the Jordanians in power. Since Israel entered the picture Palestinian life expectancy has soared to nearly 79.
Tlaib has Israel to thank that her grannie is still around to meet her (maybe).
James Lincoln says
Omar and Tlaib make up 2/535 or .37% of the voting members of Congress – and look at all of the trouble that they are causing.
Imagine if we had 20 or 30 more of them in Congress, all vying for media attention…
gravenimage says
At press conference with Tlaib, Omar claims Israel is neither an ally nor a democracy
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Just disgusting calumny.
Heidi says
This is what a Jewish professor at NYU has to say about the issue. It is shocking https://www.globalresearch.ca/disgraceful-president-contemptible-prime-minister/5686759
Angemon says
globalresearch.ca? Let me guess: Trump and Netanyahu are nationalists, supremacists, racists who hate people of colour, a disgrace to their countries, etc. You’ll never find anything even remotely resembling praise of the Western world, and especially the US, there – it’s mostly anti-Western, and especially anti-US, propaganda.
gravenimage says
Yes–that is an anti-American site, much favored by christianblood.
jca reid says
It’s the ONLY Democracy in the entire Region. How many non – Muslims sit as MP’s in Muslim “Parliaments”?
CTTV15@Hotmail.com says
I was under the impression that these 2 political animals did not recognize even the existence of Israel at all, and call the entire region, ‘Palestine’.. Tlaib actually has a map in her office which reflects that perspective I have been told. So…How could they be banned from a place, which does not exist?
They should have flown in to the ‘Palestinian’ airport and had their demonstration there. Oh, I almost forgot, the ‘Palestinians’ do not have an airport of their own.
They are far too busy wasting all that donated cement, while digging tunnels into Israel, and then lobbing rockets and burning kites over the border to kill and mame, to bother themselves with actually building something..
These two are mental cases..
ronyvo says
These 2 women together constitute one in their own religion. To me not even even, the same like Obama zeft. But, again, who made them somebody or something?!! Are we became that low to allow the president of our country and members of our Congress the no. 1 enemy in these positions, let alone to be admitted in our country!!!!!!!
Kepha says
Of course Israel isn’t a democrac, Tlaib and Omar use the word “democratic” as in the German Democratic Republic (1949-1990), the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea, and Democratic Kampuchea. Since Israel isn’t ruled by a single Marxist-Leninist party that monopolizes power, it is clearly “undemocratic” to Tlaib and Omar.
gravenimage says
True, Kepha.
Lorraine E Blazich says
I do not consider either Tlaid or Omar to be congress women because they took the oath of office on their korans and not our Bible. Their korans order the destruction of countries which are not ruled by the muslim religion/form and government and replaced by a caliph. If they are sworn in on a book which orders the destruction of our country, their oaths are of no value and they should not be allowed into our Congress. The people who occupy Palestine are mostly displaced Jordanians and Saudis and the Israels should have never given the land currently called Palestine to them because God gave that land to King David. Hopefully the Israelis have learned a lesson and will never give any of their land to muslims ever again because the muslims hate them, want them dead and are planning to steal all of the land that God gave to King David. Read Hal Lindsey’s book “The Everlasting Hatred.”