Tlaib Blames Palestinian Murder of Israeli Girl On Israel and U.S. Right-Wing

August 24, 2019

3 min read

Congressman Rashida Tlaib  (D-Mich) expressed regret in a tweet on Friday for a terrorist attack in which a 17-year old girl was murdered and her father and brother were injured. In the same post on Twitter, Tlaib also retweeted a post from an anti-Israel group that blamed the attack on the right-wing in Israel and the U.S.

Tlaib recently made headlines over a drawn-out saga concerning a junket she organized to introduce freshmen congressmen to “Palestine” (The itinerary did not refer to Israel). After much deliberation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to ban Tlaib and Congressman Ilhan Omar due to their support of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement (BDS) which works to delegitimize Israel. Israeli law prohibits advocates of BDS  from entering the country. The junket was organized in conjunction with Miftah, a Palestinian propaganda organization which publishes neo-Nazi material and propagates the blood-libel myth that Jews bake matza with the blood of Christian children. Taib made a personal written request from the Israeli Minister of the Interior to visit her grandmother who is in her 90’s, promising that she would not promote BDS during her visit. She was granted the dispensation but refused to accept it.

On Friday morning, an improvised explosive device detonated near a natural spring in the Shomron (Samaria), killing Rina Shnerb, a 17-year-old Jewish girl and wounding her father and brother. The brother is on life-support and the father is being treated in the hospital. Police are still searching for the Palestinians responsible for the murder.

Tlaib, who was born in Detroit to Palestinian parents,  related to the murder with regret but also cited an anti-Israel group that blamed the Palestinian attack on the Israeli and U.S. right-wing.

IfNotNow blamed the attack specifically on “the occupation”, a historically and factually inaccurate term anti-Semitic groups use to refer to Israel.

IfNotNow has been condemned as an antisemitic organization by numerous Jewish organizations. Many members of the organization are against a Jewish state in Israel, even within the pre-1967 lines. Many members also supported the BDS movement, which has been designated as an antisemitic organization by many governments worldwide including the United States. Many members of the movement have claimed to be Jews, and have later been discovered to have been wearing Jewface when non-Jewish people (mostly White people) masquerade as Jews in order to gain more credibility and sympathy for their criticism of Jewish organizations. These members which have been later found out to not actually be real Jews include prominent IfNotNow members such as Julia Salazar (used the racist alias Julia Carmel), Nylah Burton, and Rebecca Pierce, among others. The organization routinely disrespects Jewish rituals as a form of protest.

Tlaib claims that supporting BDS is protected under First Amendment free speech. Bill Maher, the host of HBO political talk show “Real Time”, criticized the BDS movement on his show last week, calling it the “bull**** purity test by people who want to appear ‘woke’ but actually slept through history class.” Tlaib responded by calling for a boycott of Maher’s show while comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa.

Maher responded by challenging Tlaib to a debate on his show concerning BDS. He asked if Tlaib was going to “boycott 93% of her own party” since many Democratic politicians and voters condemn the BDS movement.

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