Unless you have been deliberately avoiding the news, you probably heard that Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib said something terribly antisemitic.
For context, watch her statement from the Yahoo News Skullduggery Podcast.
During an interview with @skullduggerypod, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib weighed in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and said her Palestinian ancestors provided a “safe haven” for Jews following the Holocaust https://t.co/IBYHoCi7Rt pic.twitter.com/uvoQ4R6R6j
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) May 13, 2019
And the transcript of her statement:
“There’s always kind of a calming feeling I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust, and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways, have been wiped out, and some people’s passports,” she said. “And just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that, right, in many ways. But they did it in a way that took their human dignity away and it was forced on them.”
The “calming feeling I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust” part of what she said is horrifying on its own, but the rest of her comment was so factually inaccurate that even CNN couldn’t put up with her bullshit.
CNN Fact Checks Dem Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Comments On Israel
John King: Tlaib "ignored the fact that Palestinian leaders at the time allied themselves with Hitler and that total war is how the Arab world reacted to the declaration of Israeli independence." pic.twitter.com/mvSa7gTn4P
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 13, 2019
The Washington Examiner goes into further details about how everything Rashida Tlaib said was wrong.
Many have accused her of historical revisionism. That is true, but this needs to be explained further. Tlaib is not making this up out of her own head. What she said is the common historical understanding in Palestine and what is taught to Palestinian children in Palestinian schools.
Islam is is a very thin-skinned religion. Muslims do not react well to being challenged at all. You see this in the doctrine that says anyone who insults Muhammad must be killed. Muslims routinely imprison or kill anyone accused of blasphemy or even questioning the prophet.
Muslims are the original crybully snowflakes.
Muslims always have to be heroes or noble victims.
Israel was founded in 1948, to be immediately attacked by its neighbors Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria. The local Arab Muslims joined in this fight, and when the war was over the local Palestinian population was expelled. They had just risen up as a Fifth Column against the Jews. In a statement made by the Arab Higher Committee of Palestine to the UN:
The Palestinian Arabs consider any attempt by Jewish people or by whatever power or group of power to establish a Jewish state in an Arab territory to be an act of aggression that will be resisted by force.
Because of the weak Islamic ego, the Palestinians concocted a new story. Not one in which they were defeated aggressors but where they were the victims.
They opened their arms to the evil, backstabbing Jews, who repaid their kindness with treachery.
They called their defeat the Nakba or “catastrophe,” convincing the world that Palestinians who had just been defeated in their attempted genocidal uprising were the real victims.
This is the history that has been taught in Palestine for 70 years. This is what Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib believes.
Her Middle East historical knowledge is straight out of the Hamas/Palestinian Authority handbook. This is the critical fact that needs to be understood.
What is worse, is that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer have both defended Tlaib.
Republicans’ desperate attempts to smear @RepRashida & misrepresent her comments are outrageous. President @realDonaldTrump & House GOP should apologize to Rep. Tlaib & the American people for their gross misrepresentations.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) May 13, 2019
If you read Rep. @RashidaTlaib’s comments, it is clear that President Trump and Congressional Republicans are taking them out of context. They must stop, and they owe her an apology.
— Steny Hoyer (@RepStenyHoyer) May 13, 2019
The Democrats as a party have gone from nominally criticizing antisemitism, to pussyfooting around it when it comes from their own ranks, to full-on defending it.
There is no walking back from here.
The Muslims hate the Jews because Judaism is incompatible with Islam; the Jews stubbornly refuse to stop being Jews and submit to the prophet.
The Democrats hate the Jews because Judaism is incompatible with socialism; the Jews am stubbornly refuse to stop being Jews and submit to the politburo.
The question will be whether or not the Jewish cohort in the demoncrap party will -at least- “walk away” while -hopefully- also vehemently and publicly denouncing their former party as it devolved into the new Moslem/Socialist party.
If they don’t, I can’t but consider that they have some mental defect, for who else but the insane would cling to those that have avowed and succeeded so many times, to murder them for so long.
They won’t. Jewish Democrats hate Jews even more than their rich white peers do.
Congresscritter Tlaib is really pushing to take the lead in the race for “most dependable asshole in politics, 2019”.
It’s just that there’s so much competition.
Unless you have been deliberately avoiding the news, you probably heard that Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib said something terribly antisemitic.
Of course she did. She opened her mouth. 😉
Also, it’s funny to hear Democrats griping about “out-of-context” quotes, when:
a. They weren’t taken out-of-context; and,
b. Democrats are more than content to misquote, misattribute, or downright LIE about what any Republican, especially Trump, ever says.
Maybe I’d have more sympathy for their “plight” if they didn’t intentionally engage in exactly that so damnably often.