Rep. Rashida Tlaib to host event marking the ‘catastrophe’ of Israel’s founding
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Far-left “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) will host an event with anti-Israel groups at the Capitol Building on Wednesday that decries the founding of the Jewish State as a “catastrophe.”
The event titled “Nakba 75 & the Palestinian People” uses the Arabic term for the events surrounding the founding of Israel – Nakba – which means “catastrophe.”
“May 15th marks 75 years since the beginning of the Nakba, which means ‘catastrophe,'” reads a description of the event , which will be held at the Capitol Visitor Center.
“Seventy-five years ago, Zionist militias and the new Israeli military violently expelled approximately three-quarters of all Palestinians from their homes and homeland in what became the state of Israel.”
The organizers of the event also say they hope to educate members of Congress and their staff on the “ongoing Nakba to which Israel continues to subject Palestinians.”
One of the groups behind the event, Jewish Voice for Peace, is described by the Anti-Defamation League as a “radical anti-Israel activist group that advocates for a complete economic, cultural and academic boycott of the state of Israel” and that “celebrates figures who have been convicted of engaging in terrorism.”
Earlier this month, Tlaib criticized House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for characterizing Israel as being “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that we are all equal,” by invoking the term “Nakba.”
“Speaker McCarthy wants to rewrite history but the apartheid state of Israel was born out of violence and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians,” Tlaib wrote in a May 1 tweet . ”75 years later, the Nakba continues to this day.”
Last year, Tlaib authored a resolution , backed by other members of the “Squad,” demanding that the US “commemorate the Nakba through official recognition and remembrance.”
he said the word also refers to “an ongoing process of Israel’s expropriation of Palestinian land and its dispossession of the Palestinian people that continues to this day through the establishment and expansion of approximately 300 illegal settlements and outposts in the occupied Palestinian West Bank in which approximately 674,000 Israelis reside as of 2020.”
Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, said in a tweet at the time that “We must acknowledge that the humanity of Palestinians is being denied when folks refuse to acknowledge the war crimes and human rights violations in apartheid Israel.”
Tlaib’s office did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Liora Rez, the executive director of nonprofit group StopAntisemitism, told The Post on Monday that she wishes Tlaib “would spend as much time helping Michigan’s 12th District as she spends demonizing the world’s only Jewish state.”
“She continues to mischaracterize Israel’s history and policies, making her a natural ally for organizations like IMEU, one of the top propagators of false anti-Israel rhetoric on social media,” Rez said in a statement, referencing the Institute for Middle East Understanding – one of the group’s backing the event.
“The real ‘catastrophe’ is Rep. Tlaib and her allies’ refusal to engage with Zionism in good faith. Fact checks haven’t stopped them because they hold ideology above accuracy; as long as they ignore the reality of Israel’s past, they can’t participate in honest conversations about its present and future,” Rez added.
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Another day, another moment of extremism from the Left wing in Congress.
If she goes ahead and acts on her hatred, she's going to be transformed into a white supremacist when she's no longer politically useful.
She’s also dumber than a box of rocks. Check this out, right about the 7 minute mark.
Lol ..... cellisus?
To Sean and Sparty,
For a change I fully agree with both of you.
This is old news. McCarthy has already blocked her event.
Antisemitism should be snuffed out anywhere it starts but especially in Washington.
Yes, it should. They should censor Tlaib and also remove the Jewish Space Laser Queen from her influential committees too.
Remind me which lunatic that is.
Large Marge Green
Ah. Yes.
Given the candidates we've seen recently, the Georgia public schools have a lot to answer for.
Have you noticed that antisemitism from the left is allowed to pass but when it comes from the right people set their hair on fire?
I've noticed partisans from both sides doing some serious mental gymnastics to excuse anti-semitism (bigotry, racism, misogyny and plain assholish behavior) and at the same time going all hair on fire when they spot on the other. If one is against it then they should be against it whenever it comes up.
I sure as hell haven't allowed it to pass - I've had lots to say about antisemitism from BOTH sides, and I've made lots of comments over the years about the "Squad" and its members.
Tlaib managed to host the event anyway.
She should be censored for her antisemitic statements but I doubt if that will happen. This is a shame.
I dont like the idea of this, but as long as we have white nationalists in the conservative political spectrum I'm not going to get too worked about about a congressperson who is anti Israel.
Just can't bring yourself to criticize a fellow democrat can you John.
I said I dont like it. She has a right to be anti-Israel just like right wingers have a right to be pro Putin.
If you want to criticize her, criticize her. I really dont care.
What is your evidence that she is anti-semitic? In 2019 the head of the Anti-Defamation League said she is not anti-semitic. Opposing Israel's government is not in itself anti-semitism.
Maybe so but telling lies about Israel and its history and demonizing it IS antisemitism.
Many supporters of Israel demand the nation and the government and the jewish people be considered the same exact things. This perspective would make it impossible to criticize the Israeli government without being considered an anti-semite.
You obviously missed or ignored my point. Sure, criticize Netanyahu, criticize the Israeli government - even I'm critical of them these days, but telling lies about Israel, calling it an apartheid state and denying its existence is antisemitism.
According to its constitution Israel is a Jewish state. Imagine that in the US constitution The United States was officially and legally a Christian state. Criticism of the government could be construed as criticism of Christianity and by extension an attack on Christians.
I think it has been necessary for Israel to be a Jewish state because of centuries of persecution of the Jews and prejudice against Jews. But it is not fair to call every criticism, or even verbal attack on Israel , anti-semitism.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance created a definition of antisemitism that has been adopted by a massive number of entities, including many American States, cities, official government bodies and other organizations:
The definition is as follows:
This follows the definition:
I stand by my comment, and either you missed my point, or....worse.
It was not missed or ignored. It was simply plain old fashioned deflection.
Bingo. It is BECAUSE Jewish identity is so completely intertwined with the political state of Israel , that it is impossible , in the eyes of many, to criticize Israel without being perceived as attacking the jewish people. If someone says the palestinians are being mistreated by Israel there is a very good chance they will be accused of being anti-semitic.
Be careful Buzz.
READ THIS AGAIN
"You obviously missed or ignored my point. Sure, criticize Netanyahu, criticize the Israeli government - even I'm critical of them these days, but telling lies about Israel, calling it an apartheid state and denying its existence is antisemitism."
I NEVER said criticism is antisemitism.
bout a congressperson who is anti Israel.
The same way David Duke is. They just don't like Israel, isn't that the line?
Free speech is awesome.
Yah it is as long as it's a democrat practicing it, all others need to shut up and sit down.
She’s a nasty bigoted thing ....
Just nasty!
Tlaib is a bigoted anti Semite who is a embarrassment to the House, the Democratic Party, and the nation. The same goes for her good bud Omar.
Oh yeah and totally unapologetic about it.
The people who voted her in should be ashamed of themselves.
That video hardly makes Talib look bad. Mark Meadows is the one who felt she called him a racist and he tried to get all indignant about it.
In 2012, when Meadows was running for Congress, he told a rally that he wanted to go to Congress so he could send Barack Obama back to Africa.
opinions do vary. Greatly in this case.
The centerpiece of that video is a scene from a committee hearing where Mark Meadows complained that she had called him a racist. In 2012 Meadows joked with a campaign crowd that he would go to Washington and send Obama back to Africa. You figure it out.
Well, even Talib said she didn’t mean to call him racist so she disagrees with you. Talib on the other hand has been very vocal about eliminating Israel.
All of it.
I’ll let you “try” to make the connection on that one.
She must have ignored that 20% of Israeli citizens are Arabs, and that Arabs serve with the IDF, are mayors and officials in many towns in Israel, and an Arab justice sits on Israel's Supreme Court. She must have forgotten that offers were made to the Palestinians of 95% and then 97% of their demands and they walked away from the table. Some "apartheid", eh?
As usual, the woman doesn't know what she is talking about, but it plays real well with many of her constituents.
Sadly her constituents are largely white suburbanites. Arabic suburban whites.
This woman should be removed from office next election but I suspect she will win easily in her district.
She is an Anti-Semitic person and should be censured.
No wonder she is so popular among Democrats, though.
Jewish lawmakers have often been improperly accused of a double standard of loyalty, but how does anyone feel about a lawmaker who celebrated her election to the US Congress by wrapping herself in a Palestinian flag"?
Many on the left cheered for her that day, and many more still cheer her on when she is making anti-Semitic remarks.
I think it is a slap in the face of America to drape yourself in a flag other than the American one when you win a seat in our Congress.
It's sad to see that antisemitism is increasing in the USA, and in Canada as well.
I thought so as well, which is why I pointed it out.