Rashida Tlaib (D-West Bank) has gone on a rampage again. She’s accused Israel of “apartheid” and “stealing Palestinian homes” – so far so predictable, but now she’s added a new charge – that Israel has deliberately been setting fires to Palestinian land. A report on her latest outburst is here: “Top US Jewish Group Calls for Rashida Tlaib to Remove ‘Falsehood’ About Israelis Setting Fire to Palestinian Fields,” Algemeiner, May 6, 2021
A leading US Jewish group called on Congressman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) to remove a tweet that accused Israel of “apartheid” and “stealing Palestinian homes and burning their lands” as she shared an account of Israelis setting fires to Palestinian fields that was retracted by the Israeli NGO that originated it.
“.@RashidaTlaib, you shared a falsehood about Israeli Jews setting fire to Palestinian fields. This ugly claim has been retracted. You’re a member of Congress. Take down your tweet. Or is it okay to perpetuate untruths when they fit your policy agenda?” the American Jewish Committee (AJC) tweeted Thursday.
On Wednesday, Tlaib retweeted an article about fires near the Palestinian village of Burin, drawing from a Palestinian media sources and a May 4 tweet by the left-wing NGO B’Tselem, which shared a photo of the flames and blamed Israeli “settlers.”
“Stealing Palestinian homes and burning their lands. The actions of an apartheid state. We cannot stand by and watch this happen,” Tlaib wrote, tagging the account of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “Billions of US taxpayers dollars support Netanyahu’s government and this racist violence. We must condemn this swiftly.”
“The actions of an apartheid state”? Yet one more time, let’s review the evidence: Arabs in Israel serve in the Knesset, sit on the Supreme Court, go abroad as diplomats. An Arab judge, George Kara, presided over the trial of President Moshe Katsav and sentenced him to prison. The chairman of Israel’s largest bank, Bank Leumi, is an Arab. Jews and Arabs study together in universities, work together in factories and offices, are treated in the same hospitals, play on the same sports teams and in the same orchestras. Where is the apartheid in any of this?
What about Tlaib’s charge that Israelis are “burning their [Palestinian] lands”? There is no record of Israelis setting fire to the fields near the village of Burin, or indeed, anywhere else. There are no videos of Jews near the fields when they supposedly set alight. A Palestinian source sent a dramatic nighttime photo of Burin, with fields burning in the background, to the left-wing Israeli NGO B’Tselem. B’Tselem tweeted the photo with this caption, “settlers torched Palestinian fields in Burin.”…
At 8:10 am, B’Tselem also sent a release to the media about it, but within two hours, at 10:07, had taken it down. No explanation was given. But media reports emerged that the fires were in fact started by Palestinian arsonists, the Israeli NGO later said that the “The fires in Burin tonight are being re-examined. I will update with any new information I have,” according to the Jerusalem Post, which said that no further information followed. Several days later, B’Tselem has continued to remain silent. It is no doubt worried about the legal consequences of its original — false — charge, and doesn’t want to make matters worse for itself either by admitting to the falsity of its original tweet and subsequent release to the media, or by continuing to stick with that falsehood. It could have avoided its current woes simply by reporting on the fire, and providing the competing versions of Arabs and Israelis as to who was behind it. It’s not even clear from B’Tselem whether the burning fields belonged to Palestinians. Might they have belonged to Israelis? The NGO ought to have checked out the original charge, even sent an investigator to the area to interview both Jews and Arabs, and to weigh the evidence presented by both sides.. It did nothing but repeat a Palestinian accusation as fact. B’Tselem clearly has a problem with due diligence.
The outrage of the Israelis is palpable; they are so certain that they have been wronged that they are now going to sue the NGO for slander. Perhaps the tort is libel, rather than slander, as it appears B’Tselem made its charge not orally, but in writing. This may cost B’Tselem dearly.
But what of Rashida Tlaib? There is Congressional immunity for all statements made in the Congress itself or, outside Congress, if those statements have already been published in the Congressional Record. But a tweet going out into the world for the first time has clearly not been published previously in the Congressional Record. Was Tlaib’s tweet made from her Congressional office, or was it made at her home, in a car, at a restaurant, on a plane? Surely there are many American lawyers who would be willing to take the case of the Samaria Regional Council v. Tlaib, to test the scope of Congressional immunity, and possibly, to make new and important law relevant to the age of the tweet. If I were Rashida Tlaib, I’d be concerned.
Frank Anderson says
The US Jewish fixation on voting Democrat is impossible for me to understand. The Democrat party supports islam and all its teachings regarding Jews and other “non-believers”. The teachings are contrary line for line, word for word, to everything Judaism teaches and has taught for 3700 years, starting with the idea of constant questioning and examination, which is prohibited under penalty of death in islam.
Depending on the Jewish community, Orthodox, Conservative or Reform, approximately 75 percent of Jews who vote, will automatically vote for Democrats who support muslims, who aspire to the killing of every Jew in the world. Talk about a Death Wish? As a person who wishes to live in freedom and liberty, I have better places.
Spiro says
Your correct and It’s not the only group to stay on your point if any can understand this fixation with their bitter enemy
Please explain
Frank Anderson says
Spiro, I had many dear and honored friends in the Jewish community. To my sadness they died or moved away and left people who are beyond my understanding. The wisdom I found in Jewish teaching, particularly that of asking repeatedly EVERY question, even to the very existence of God, is not followed in practice.
I cannot comprehend self-loathing and destruction. I have struggled most of my life to deal with a similar problem, and have succeeded enough to remain alive more than 70 years in spite of the wishes of many people to the contrary.
For a religion founded on The Exodus, which teaches that God does not want ANY of His Children, ALL who call upon Him as Father, to live under any form of tyranny or slavery, to ignore that teaching and submit to humiliation and slavery of a group (islam) dedicated for 1400 years to death of all its followers, is absurd and unworthy of the wisdom that is present.I spent 23 years learning and observing before being told to leave and don’t look back. I think I understand at least some of Lot’s feelings when he received similar instructions.
gravenimage says
A lot of Jewish people are just pro-immigrant, because they assume that–like themselves–that they are all needy refugees who willl become good American citizens.
James Lincoln says
Frank Anderson,
My own oversimplified take on it is that “so-called” Jews who vote for Democrats are really “Jews In Name Only”. But an article in “American Thinker” from 2018 offers a much more detailed explanation:
“Why do American Jews vote for Democrats?”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/why_do_american_jews_vote_for_democrats.html
Frank Anderson says
James, that is as good as any explanation. Still, it is absolutely mindless and totally contrary to the basic teachings of Judaism. I see the irony that one of the three propositions that attracted me also sent me away. I regret my loss and see no way to reverse it. Life goes on.
Infidel says
James, thanks for the link. I read the article in question, and honestly, even I had never heard about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. But somehow, people totally ignore that times change. Like Russia, in its Soviet incarnation, was our #1 enemy, but hasn’t really been that for decades, even if our State Department and Pentagon are unable to recognize that fact. Turkey, which was some sort of an ally during the Cold War, hasn’t been that ever since the Cold War ended. China, which was some sort of an ally during the Cold War when we exploited the Sino-Soviet rift, has only been recognized as an enemy due to Trump, otherwise no one was willing to acknowledge it
Similarly, the parties too have evolved. The GOP, which under the Bushes, sought to play on their strengths and use America’s status as the world’s sole superpower to project our power, did so to such an extent that today we have troops in 150 countries, out of 190. So something happens in Mozambique or Niger or some other place that most of us can’t find on a map, and our troops are handy. When they could have been more useful in places like Minneapolis or Portland. Similarly, the Democrats, which for decades used to pander to Jews and other ethnic minorities, have now discovered their favorite minority – the muslims. A group that President Bush XLIII tried to attract before 9/11 to offset Jewish support to the Dems
But the Democrats, as the article showed, has changed. I remember during the 90s when I used to occasionally watch CNN’s Crossfire, which had 3 Republican anti-Israelis whenever the subject of ‘Palestine’ was there – Pat Buchanan, Bob Novak and John Sununu, who were always willing to denounce Israel. And I’d find myself agreeing w/ the likes of Michael Kinsley, Al Hunt and Geraldine Ferraro on this one issue, even if I disagreed w/ them on everything else. Today, it’s the Dems that have been totally transformed on this issue by President Obama, while the Republicans have moved a lot in Israel’s direction. Under President Bush, Americans born in Jerusalem could not have Israel’s reference as their place of birth. That changed under President Trump
But even beyond the subject of Israel, where people like Ilhan Omar have accused Jews of dual loyalties, the fact remains that muslims have grown to the point where they are pretty brazen about their Judeophobia, particularly in Europe but increasingly in the US and Canada. Jews who are still pro-Democrat should recognize that a party can either be pro-muslim or it can be pro everyone else (Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, et al). Even if they don’t care about Israel – many American Jews don’t – there will come a point where the Democrat party will be about as Judeophobic as the UK Labour Party is
James Lincoln says
Excellent analysis, Infidel. My compliments.
David says
Ill-hen (Sick chick)Omar accusing Jews of having dual loyalties? (American/Israel)Well we all know where her single loyalty belongs.
I am convinced that Obama is a closet muslim. I mean come on. The name is a giveaway.
David says
This is like saying that concentration camp victims had Stockholm Syndrome.
I too am amazed at how any Jew could not support Judaism and Israel. Oh, the power of propaganda, or is it hypnotism?
Frank Anderson says
David, please understand where my support and sympathies are directed. If you have not done so already, please take time to read what is to me one of the most important books ever, Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist who survived the death camps. He develops and explains “the delusion of reprieve” that he observed in the camps. That delusion helped many stay alive another day in horrible conditions, where one could choose to die at any time simply by stepping across a wire close to the camp fence. Basically, the delusion says “If you can’t face the truth, make something up!”
We are where we do not need to make up stories when we can take action to maintain our lives and liberty, and that of future generations. I cannot explain what I have observed in person in the Jewish community.
Joeyn says
Every single Islamic country including Palestine is a hard core Apartheid country which would make the Apartheid that was practised by South Africa look like child’s play and yet this ugly witch of a character called Rashida Tlaib accuses one of the most free, just and advanced country in the world Israel (which by the way out of jealousy and hatred every single Islamic country is trying to destroy) of practicing Apartheid. How stupid and deceitful a Muslim can get is unbelievable. Projecting the evil in themselves onto others seem to be the ultimate expertise of Muslims who have been possesed by their evil Islamic religion.
gravenimage says
+1
BlackSabbath says
Rashida Taleb’s resemblance to aliens from James Cameron’s movies is remarkable. She should consider a career in hollywood.
https://gritdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Alien.jpg
Duane Mo tez says
The last time I saw a Mouth Like That…….It Had a Hook In It…
wpm says
“The last time I saw a Mouth like that.. it had a hook in it” A Ronnie Dangerfield line an old one but good one
Princess says
Who’s been sending incendiary balloons, indiscriminately burning agricultural land and trees for the last couple of years? The Arabs from Gaza. I am sick and tired of this constant projection from the Arabs of their own criminal behavior and actions onto others.
dumbledoresarmy says
Exactly. And not only incendiary balloons from Gaza, but Muslims living *within* Israel have set fire to forests and farmland. And in France there have, of late, been a LOT of churches mysteriously destroyed by fires… Fire-setting has been used by Mohammedan jihadists since forever; the jihad raiders who attacked the non-Muslim communities along the shores of the Mediterranean throughout the ealry middle ages would set fire to houses, churches, pastures, orchards and forests… Muslim jihad raiders are setting fire to farms and churches right across Africa, right now, too. This evil, evil, wicked, wicked mohammedan female probably knows full well that fire has been a weapon used by jihad raiders for a long, long time. So in a tactic much used by those deep sunk in evil [M Scott Peck, in his book about evil, entitled “People of the Lie”, states that projection is one of *the* marks of the thoroughly evil person – or group], she accuses the *victims* of Muslim aggression, of doing what Muslim aggressors have always done.
Wellington says
I would only note that Tlaib is not banned from social media even though she is a hater and a liar, but Trump is banned. This is not just absurdity, it is wicked as well.
Treereen says
At least, we can use the progressive-infected social media to gauge the type of commenter / poster:
Not a peep = rabid lefty agitator, jihadist, jihadi apologist, terror apologist or a projecting leftist hate group
Account suspended = must be doing something right but not enough just now
Banned = Oooo! Seriously hit a nerve bigtime, embarrassed leftists who were caught red-handed or exposed liberals’ rank hypocrisy
James Lincoln says
Treereen,
To borrow from an old, WWII Army Air Force phrase:
If you’re taking flak, you’re over the target…
David says
James, that is very apt. Not heard that before.
How come muslims get away with this?
E T says
Thank you James, the saying seems to apply to almost every topic I speak of today.
Treereen says
Succinct and to the point is the name of the game. ;o)
Infidel says
The American Jewish Commitee has allowed their own Leftist wokeness blind them to the fact that Rashida Tlaib does want the destruction of Israel. Heck, her entire family consists of Hamas supporters while her ex was a Fatah supporter. I think the reason her marriage failed was that he was too moderate. Anyway, given that family profile of hers, it’s ridiculous for anyone to expect her to be fair to Israel
Keith O says
If Tlaib likes the Palestinians so much she should emigrate and run for the president of the PA?
Personally, I would love to see the Israelis take her manky, lying, mudslime arse to court and take every cent she has stolen from the American people for her lies and support of terrorists.
seelistenunderstandAmir says
The problem with all these boorish people, congress men/woman is that they are educated to hate Israel.
There is not even a single word, in all of their propaganda that meets the truth, but they carry on with it.
To fight it, I, for example, write to her and others, including facebook owner, that dislike Israel, a daily mail. From time t time I get an answer from their department. From these answers I learn that they don’t know what is going. All they know is that Israel is apartheid.
So, try to fight them but don’t pay too much attention to them, work on their supporters.
OLD GUY says
Just look at that mouth piece, for the islamic hate rape and murder cult. She is a prime reason that America needs to close the borders to the muslim/islamic migration invasion. She is not here because she loves America she is here to help the destruction of our society.
Norman Gardner gardner says
Tlaib is oblivious to the rockets and incendiary balloons that Hamas has been sending into Israel to burn the fields of grain. She is an out and out bigot and war mongering racist b–ch . It is a disgrace that the Democratic Party has failed to condemn this fascist ignoramous.
OLD GUY says
You are right the free pass for islamic migrants needs to be revoked. Rashida is not representing the American people she is representing the islamic invasion of our country with nothing but hate and deceit for our society and culture. She is a leader of the Islamic/muslim migration invasion that is taking part through open border policies for islamic people. Nothing like letting your enemy walk right in and become part of your political system.
gravenimage says
I don’t think she is oblivious–I think she is lying.
Wellington says
Seconded, gravenimage.
gravenimage says
Rashida Tlaib Falsely Charges ‘Settlers’ With Setting Fire to ‘Palestinian’ Land
…………
Just lies.
Appalling that this vicious Mohammedan is in Congress.