Rep. Rashida Tlaib was on the Yahoo News “Skulduggery” podcast where she claimed that Palestinians tried “to create a safe haven for Jews” who had survived the Holocaust and this gives her a “calming feeling”:
Wow, this is breathtakingly vile from Rashida Tlaib.https://t.co/fiamTC9jam pic.twitter.com/a4NLNfP8Oz
— Dr. Petra Marquardt-Bigman (@WarpedMirrorPMB) May 11, 2019
Just when you think they can’t get more anti-Semitic, they get more anti-Semitic:
My goodness, this is horrifying. From a member of Congress. In 2019. While we were all marveling at the antisemitic depths to which Ilhan Omar will sink, Rashida Tlaib swings for the fences. https://t.co/ybrV4tEhvM
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) May 12, 2019
It also ignores what was happening in Palestine before, during and right after WWII:
That‘s why they massacred Jews during the Holocaust and started a revolt against the British to prevent Jews from entering, and why their leader told Hitler kill Jews, don’t send them here. To provide a safe haven. Makes perfect sense @RashidaTlaib https://t.co/ohA43vcz2c
— Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) May 12, 2019
More on her historically illiterate take from the Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby. Take note of the embrace of Nazism and Hitler:
No, @RashidaTlaib, Palestinian Arabs did not provide "save haven" for Jews. They assaulted & murdered Jews, urged on by their leader, Haj Amin al-Husseini, an admirer and ally of Adolf Hitler.https://t.co/cXhMFpv6b6
— Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) May 12, 2019
In 1929, Palestinian Arabs broke into the yeshiva in Hebron, murdering every student they found there. Then they lynched Jews in the streets. When the town's rabbi tried to shelter frightened Jews in his home, the Arab mob attacked and killed him and his family. pic.twitter.com/QPLLfGeqcW
— Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) May 12, 2019
A week after the Hebron massacre, Arabs in Safed launched a new pogrom. There was "a systematic slaughter of the Jews," wrote a British eyewitness. "The inhumanity of the attack was beyond conception. Women were gashed in the chest, babies were cut [and] old people were killed." pic.twitter.com/cKtIT26VoX
— Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) May 12, 2019
In 1938, the French journal Marianne reported that Arabs in Palestine were enthusiastically pro-Nazi: “At Nablus, the Arab population [gives] shouts of ‘Heil Hitler’.… the Arab journals Falastin & Al Difa’a … reproduce large portraits of various leaders of the Third Reich."
— Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) May 12, 2019
The @NYTimes reported on another massacre in 1938, this time in Tiberias: "Not since the riots of 1929 … has there been in Palestine such a slaughter." It described how Arabs torched the synagogue and murdered its sexton, then went from house to house, killing and burning. pic.twitter.com/6r4eZKLB0W
— Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) May 12, 2019
Most notorious was the Palestinian Arab leader Husseini, who met w/ Hitler in Berlin and traveled to Bosnia to recruit volunteers for the Waffen SS. "The Arabs were Germany's natural friends," Husseini told the führer, "because they had the same enemies" – especially Jews. pic.twitter.com/3LqMiW8bAO
— Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) May 12, 2019
"Our fundamental condition for cooperating with Germany," Husseini wrote, "was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine & the Arab world." Again & again he insisted that Jewish refugees be barred from Palestine.
"Safe haven," @RashidaTlaib? Truly, you're shameless.
— Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) May 12, 2019
Rep. Liz Cheney thinks it’s time Nancy Pelosi finally do something about the “vile anti-Semitism in their ranks”:
Surely now @SpeakerPelosi & @LeaderHoyer will finally take action against vile anti-Semitism in their ranks. This must cross the line, even for them. Rashida Tlaib says thinking of the Holocaust provides her a “calming feeling” https://t.co/opUUNEol2d
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) May 12, 2019
But to the Washington Post, this was a “Republicans seize” moment. Literally:
Found it! pic.twitter.com/nmn1ATZNlP
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) May 13, 2019
Except we’re not taking the remarks out of context:
It's even worse. @feliciasonmez actually spends the article defending Tlaib and claiming Republicans were taking her comments out of context.
No mention that what she said was historically illiterate and a myth spread by anti-Semites to dismiss the Jewish connection to israel.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) May 13, 2019
Rep. Tlaib’s office just send out this release on “Republican lies,” so expect this to be and even bigger story tomorrow as she digs in:
Statement on lies being spread regarding Congresswoman Tlaib's appearance on Yahoo's SkullDuggery Podcast. pic.twitter.com/fBASeibLwV
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) May 13, 2019
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