Stephen Daisley Stephen Daisley

Rashida Tlaib’s comments about Palestine are blatantly misleading

Her toxic denial of Jewish national identity is the reason Palestine is not free

Rashida Tlaib is a victim, and not just any victim – she’s a righteous one. The freshman Democrat from Michigan’s 13th district was born in Detroit to parents from the West Bank, making her the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress. She was one of the set of radicals I warned about ahead of last November’s midterm elections and she hasn’t disappointed. My concern then was that her campaign had suggested she was a supporter of the two-state solution during the Democrat primary, but she then openly identified with the Israel-eliminating one-state solution after clinching the nomination.

Since then her colleague Ilhan Omar (MN-05) has done most of the heavy-lifting in the Jew-baiting stakes, but Tlaib has begun to pick up the slack. She told Yahoo News’s ‘Skullduggery’ podcast:

‘Just, I think, two week ago or so, we celebrated… or just took a moment, I think, in our country to remember the Holocaust.

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