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Rashida Tlaib and Her BFFs

Oct 1, 2019 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) has received a lot of criticism for the surpassing crudity of her declaration about the President — “We’re going to impeach the motherf***er”– and in the last few days for offering the phrase for sale on a t-shirt — but less attention has been given to the company she keeps. As far back as her swearing-in, and at a private dinner she held that same day, many unsavory “Palestinian” activists were in attendance.

It should be remembered that at her victory party, Tlaib wrapped herself not in the American, but in the “Palestinian” flag, and repeatedly intoned “Palestine…Palestine.” Sounds like her loyalties are clear. She’s not even a case of “dual loyalty” but, rather, of a single loyalty — to Palestine. But when two senators sponsored legislation to limit the anti-Israel BDS (boycott, divest, sanctions) campaign, Tlaib had the chutzpah to attack them in a tweet, using the antisemitic dual-loyalty canard: “They forgot what country they represent.” She, on the other hand, hasn’t forgotten: she represents Palestine.

Among them was Abbas  Hamideh, who tweeted a photo of himself with Ms. Tlaib along with the caption, “I was honored to be at Congresswoman @RashidaTlaib swearing in ceremony in #Detroit and private dinner afterward with the entire family, friends and activists across the country.”

Hamideh, a co-founder of the pro-Palestinian group Al-Awda, has a history of praising Hezbollah leaders such as Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, whom he called “the most honorable man on earth.” That “most honorable man on earth” was responsible for the murder of many Americans, including the October 23, 1983 attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut, in which 220 Marines and 21 other American personnel were killed. Nasrallah has been responsible for numerous other attacks on American, Israeli, and Jewish targets, including cross-border raids from Lebanon into Israel in which Israelis were kidnapped and killed. Until September 11, 2001, Hezbollah was responsible for killing more Americans than any other terrorist organization. Among other deadly attacks by Hezbollah, in addition to the 1983 attack on U.S. Marine barracks that killed 241, are the 1992 suicide bombing at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, which killed 29 and injured 242; the 1994 suicide bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association in Buenos Aires, killing 85 and injuring hundreds; and the 2012 bombing of an Israeli tourist bus in Bulgaria, killing five and injuring 32. Hezbollah is also suspected of involvement in the February 2005 Beirut suicide bombing that killed 23 people, including former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. It has served Iranian interests in Lebanon.

This staunch supporter of Rashida Tlaib was invited by her not only to attend her swearing-in, but also the private dinner afterward, to which only those closest to her were invited. He has tweeted that “Israel has no right to exist,” a sentiment which elicited no comment, much less a rebuff, from Tlaib. Since taking office, she has been peddling hatred for Israel and employing anti-Semitic tropes. She defended Marc Lamont Hill after CNN fired him for comments in which he called for the elimination of Israel and endorsed violent “resistance” against Jews.

Abbas Hamideh has expressed particular admiration for Samir Kuntar, whom he called a “legendary Hezbollah martyr,” days after Kuntar was killed in an explosion in Damascus. Kuntar had been convicted of murder and terrorism for his role in the gruesome 1979 murder of four Israelis, but was released in a 2008 Israeli-Hezbollah prisoner exchange.

Under the cover of darkness on April 22, 1979, Kuntar, then 16, led a Palestinian Liberation Front attack in Nahariya, in which he brutally murdered several members of one family, and was responsible for the death of a third member of the family. He and his accomplices snuck into Israel from the sea, and then broke into a family’s apartment. There, they kidnapped a young father, Danny Haran, and his 4-year-old daughter Einat. Kuntar took the father and his young daughter to the nearby beach. There, he shot the father, and had the daughter, Einat, watch as he drowned her father underwater to ensure he was completely dead. Then, he smashed the little girl’s head against a nearby rock with the butt of his gun.

As Kuntar was kidnapping the father and daughter, the mother, Smadar, grabbed their 2-year old baby, Yael, and hid from the men who breached her home. As Smadar tried to keep her baby quiet to keep them from being found, her daughter suffocated in her arms. This is the man whom Rashida Tlaib’s friend Abbas Hamideh praises as “a legendary Hezbollah martyr.” Tlaib apparently believes that his praise of such a diabolical murderer does not disqualify Hamideh from being a guest at her swearing-in and private dinner.

Many others of note showed up on Tlaib’s first day, as part of her inner circle. There was Huwaida Arraf, a co-founder of ISM, the International Solidarity Movement, a group with a long history of supporting “Palestinian” terror groups. In 2004, at a Palestine Solidarity Movement conference, Arraf proudly acknowledged that ISM cooperates with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. And in 2013, ISM expressed support for Samer Issawi, a terrorist affiliated with yet another group, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Other supporters in Tlaib’s inner circle include the “comedian” Amer Zehr, best known for his thigh-slapping act of covering up Israel on a world map — eliminating the “Zionist entity” — with a post-it note.

When running for office, Tlaib was careful not to appear as hard on Israel as she has since revealed herself to be. Her first political patron, to whom she owes a great deal, was Steve Tobocman, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, who was certain Tlaib supported a “two-state solution” until, it turned out, she didn’t. Even J Street couldn’t stomach her mendacity and, in an unprecedented move, withdrew its support from Tlaib.

Her dishonesty and her vicious hatred are now manifest for the world to see, just as it is completely clear where her loyalty lies.

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  1. JW_Reader says

    Oct 1, 2019 at 11:06 am

    When will this barbaric cult of Islam will be vanquished?It has been going on for far too long! It really takes perfectly good human child and converts them in to sub-human creatures. Many Palestinians are prime examples of that.

    • Robert_k says

      Oct 2, 2019 at 4:09 am

      The combination of consanguinity inbreeding encouraged by Islam and the Islamic Sharia reproduce homicidal zombies. The ones who are not born with defects encourage the zombies to do the Jihad for them.

    • william carr says

      Oct 2, 2019 at 5:32 am

      Every Muslim child or more precisely, child born to a Muslim as there are no Muslim babies, is branded like a calf for life as a Muslim. They cannot ever leave on pain of death or at the least social ostracism and rejection by the family. No there is no choice in religion. To be fair the same applies to Catholics but at least they do not murder those who ‘lapse’

  2. James says

    Oct 1, 2019 at 11:11 am

    Not a person one can respect, and yet somehow she and the Squad are presumably running the House Democrats.

    • Herb L says

      Oct 1, 2019 at 11:38 am

      What is really going on in the Democratic Party taking sides with the ENEMY, Islam has always declaring war on the Infidels and Kuffir, and do you know who the Infidels and Kuffir are? Every non-Muslim that refuses to renounce their religion and convert to Islam and swear to Allah as the Supreme god. Or they just kill you, and walk away in pride of what a good Satanist they are for following a warlord that self proclaimed himself the last prophet. If Muhammad was such a great and last prophet, than why did their moon god Allah allow this man to be killed so easily? By a Jew and a woman to boot. Answer: Allah does not exist and these people are living lies of Satan himself as Satan is the same angel that was giving Muhammad these verses of hell to reign on earth. They can’t deny what is in their Quran and need IMAMS to interpret them? Imams are Satan’s Demons. So take from this as you will, but beware of the enemy within our government. Take the image of what Muhammad did to whole villages that refused Allah as deity. Mecca was taken and wiped out and hundreds of idols are still within that cube being their god, not Allah and they worship all these hundreds of false gods, and slap a name on that cube to make it look legit. They circle it like the Vultures in the desert. Fools are fools no matter what name you give them they are still fools for believing Imams who are the real Satanic Cabal of Satan himself, trying to remove all of Jesus’s people from the earth so SODOM can be reborn. This is where Jesus will come back to destroy all the false prophets and religions and pass final judgment upon them to Hell.

  3. Spiro says

    Oct 1, 2019 at 11:38 am

    She nuts

  4. Jewdog says

    Oct 1, 2019 at 12:08 pm

    Being dumped by J Street for extremism is like being expelled by ISIS for cruelty. Quite an achievement!

  5. Wellington says

    Oct 1, 2019 at 12:57 pm

    And the Democratic Party has done nothing about either Tlaib or Omar, both of whom are fifth columnists.

    The real problem lies not with these two wretched women but with the Democratic Party as a whole, which has embraced sanctuary cities, unchecked immigration, is certainly Islam-friendly, cooked up the fake Russian dossier on Trump, is ever increasingly embracing the stupid economic system which is socialism and, in general and for all intents and purposes, has become an enemy of America. The Democratic Party of old, though full of faults but not like the egregious ones I just noted, is no more.

    Anyone voting Democrat is voting against America. The Republican Party indeed leaves much to be desired but it has not lost its collective mind nor has it turned traitorous.

    • James Lincoln says

      Oct 1, 2019 at 2:11 pm

      Wellington,

      Excellent and factually accurate post-my compliments.

      If JFK were alive today, he would find his Democratic Party completely unrecognizable…

      • Wellington says

        Oct 1, 2019 at 3:19 pm

        Thanks, James. Yes, JFK would be read out of the party were he still around. One of my favorite statistics about JFK is that the budgetary year (he had three) in which he spent the least on defense as a percentage of federal spending is still more than the budgetary year (Reagan had eight) in which The Gipper spent the most on defense as a percentage of federal outlay.

        Another interesting fact about JFK: He was the only Democratic Senator who didn’t vote to censor Joe McCarthy (and Joe Kennedy Sr., the patriarch, contributed to McCarthy’s Wisconsin Senatorial campaign). Yes, JFK was laid up with his back problems at the time but this was the excuse the Kennedys used to get around his not voting to censure the Wisconsin Senator. Moreover, and a lot of people don’t know this, Bobby Kennedy was second counsel to McCarthy after Roy Cohn. This was quietly forgotten by many after McCarthy’s downfall.

        You know, you hear again and again how awful the blacklisting was of Hollywood figures (writers, directors, actors, etc.) but so many of them really were quite sympathetic to Communism if not actually Communist (e.g., the writer, Dalton Trumbo, who at one time was a member of the American Communist Party, admired Stalin greatly and blamed Truman for the Cold War). So, considering that Communism is one of the most terrible ideologies ever developed by man and responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths, my comeback line to anyone who says how terrible the blacklisting was is what if those blacklisted had not been sympathetic to Communism but rather to Nazism? I am usually met with stone silence, which has signified to me that there is a huge double standard out there, to wit, the Far Right is condemned with regularity (as it should be) but the Far Left is cut a break time and time again. Damn, how I hate both double standards and willful ignorance—kinda’ like what we have with Islam.

        Sorry to go on so long but I was in a writer’s mode. Take care, James. Best to you and those most dear to you.

        • James Lincoln says

          Oct 1, 2019 at 6:00 pm

          Wellington, you always provide great historical insight into present day topics.

          Likewise, the very best to both you and yours.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 2, 2019 at 12:43 am

        Excellent exchange, Wellington and James. Yes, the Democratic Party is crazier and crazier–even people like Nancy Pelosi look (comparatively) sane and patriotic compared to “the Squad”.

      • James Pierce says

        Oct 2, 2019 at 6:20 am

        Forget JFK, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that Bill Clinton is beginning to find his party unrecognizable from how it was when he was President

        • James Lincoln says

          Oct 2, 2019 at 8:56 am

          James Pierce,

          You are correct.

          The Democrats took an even harder left turn after the presidency of Bill Clinton…

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 1, 2019 at 2:50 pm

    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.”

    In addition , by using such a foul terms as 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 ?

    • Westman says

      Oct 1, 2019 at 7:00 pm

      I am also mistifyed, Walter, about how she uses these vulgarities in front of her own son(she has) and why the other congressional Democrats haven’t publicly asked her to refrain from vulgar speech. One can only conclude that they must also use such language among themselves.

      Trotting out a line of shirts covered with vulgarity is something we might expect from an immature Jr. High girl in the confusion of adolescence. Perhaps she will soon die her hair bright purple, get two arms full of tattoos, and enough metal piercings to attract lightning?

      • Westman says

        Oct 1, 2019 at 7:03 pm

        dye—>die

      • James Pierce says

        Oct 2, 2019 at 6:22 am

        She gets away with anything she wants because asking her to modify any aspect of her behavior would be racism

  7. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Oct 1, 2019 at 3:00 pm

    … at her victory party, Tlaib wrapped herself not in the American, but in the “Palestinian” flag.

    I didn’t know that. This reminds me of when in 2007 when then-candidate Barack Hussein Obama first appeared not wearing the American flag lapel pin, which led many to question his loyalty to the country.
    The wearing of symbols can be predictive. In his case they were right, he did prove to be disloyal, first with his apology tour and later with the JCPOA, which was to have given the Persians an open door to nuclear weapons.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 2, 2019 at 12:48 am

      +1

  8. Angemon says

    Oct 1, 2019 at 5:07 pm

    Methinks this Tlaib creature should be begging her grandma for apologies after going well out of her way to not visit her…

    • Westman says

      Oct 1, 2019 at 7:07 pm

      The grandma is worse, she said she would never visit the US to see the granddaughter. I’m betting she can swear like a sailor; outperforming Rashida.

  9. Infidel says

    Oct 1, 2019 at 5:18 pm

    Too bad that the cretins who populate her district would never vote for a republican. Same goes for Ilhan Omar’s district

  10. James Pierce says

    Oct 1, 2019 at 10:49 pm

    She has that same ugly look on her face in every picture I’ve ever seen of her. What a nasty, angry person.

  11. gravenimage says

    Oct 2, 2019 at 12:49 am

    Rashida Tlaib and Her BFFs
    ……………….

    She and her colleague Ilhan Omar should be exposed at every turn.

  12. MJP says

    Oct 2, 2019 at 9:20 am

    That ugly vile inbred creature needs to be removed from office she is Mentally incapable of holding the job.

  13. CTTV15@Hotmail.com says

    Oct 2, 2019 at 10:05 am

    Would someone please find the straight jacket..

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Oct 2, 2019 at 10:53 am

      One with the anti-spit hood.

  14. somehistory says

    Oct 2, 2019 at 8:07 pm

    https://thewashingtonstandard.com/jihad-representative-fraud-rashida-tlaib-pushes-racism-when-it-comes-to-facial-recognition-jobs/

    Detroit Police Dept.
    @detroitpolice
    @RashidaTlaib Before you criticize the software, come to our Real Time Crime Center to see how we @detroitpolice responsibly use it in efforts to identify criminals involved in violent crimes. Let’s set a date. https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1163669419802996736 …

    Rashida Tlaib
    ✔
    @RashidaTlaib
    .@detroitpolice You should probably rethink this whole facial recognition bulls**t.https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjw8ww/bernie-sanders-is-the-first-candidate-to-call-for-ban-on-facial-recognition …

    Craig, who is black, did not go for Tlaib’s suggestion.

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