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Rashida Tlaib

“I always tell people, cutting people off from water is violence,” she said, “and they do it from Gaza to Detroit. And it’s a way to control people, to oppress people,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.).
Rep. Rashida Tlaib said reading official U.S. statements, one “would hardly know that Palestinians existed,” and that there has been no recognition of home demolitions or evictions, the detaining of children, sustained harassment of worshippers at Al-Aqsa mosque or of Palestinian humanity.
“Islam’s 3rd holiest site is being used to stockpile Molotov cocktails and rocks being lobbed at police and Jewish worshippers praying at the Western Wall, below the Temple Mount,” Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan tweeted in response to the Michigan legislator.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) says the Jewish state “has no intention” of helping Palestinian Arabs overcome the coronavirus pandemic, and that the United States is “enabling” them to do so.
She said Gators for Israel, the University of Florida pro-Israel group, has included one in a package it is sending to her office on Capitol Hill.
A panel of activists debate contemporary anti-Semitism with many decrying the false contradiction too often presented between being both progressive and Jewish.
Nearly 1,000 viewers tuned in to watch the panelists discuss their thoughts on combating anti-Semitism, yet in a twist that didn’t go unnoticed, many anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist remarks were made during the 90-minute event.
CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case that proved connections to the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas and other radical Islamic entities.
Since taking office in January 2019, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has been accused of peddling an anti-Israel and anti-Semitic agenda.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) says she is fine with Anthony Blinken as long as he doesn’t “suppress her First Amendment right” to criticize the Israeli prime minister’s “racist and inhumane policies.”
The Dec. 15 webinar is being sponsored by JVP Action; IfNotNow; United Against Hate; Jewish Currents; Foundation for Middle East Peace; Arab American Institute; JFREJ; the Jewish Vote; and the People’s Collective for Justice and Liberation.
Incumbent Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and progressive Cori Bush in Missouri won their respective congressional races, as did Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia.