Historically illiteral Rep. Rashida Tlaib is being called out by Israeli and Palestinian historians over her claim that Arabs helped Jews created a safe haven in Israel after WWII.
Thread via the Washington Examiner’s Seth Mandel:
“‘Rashida Tlaib is either completely ignorant of the history or is a deliberate liar’, charged Prof. Benny Morris, one of the leading scholars of British Mandatory Palestine, the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and the War of Independence.” https://t.co/VJRweO2H9T
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) May 14, 2019
“Both Israeli and Palestinian scholars told Haaretz that they had great difficulty embracing any view of history in which the Palestinians played any part in providing a “safe haven” for Jewish refugees of the Holocaust.”
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) May 14, 2019
And GAME OVER:
Lmaaaoooooo “Palestinian historian Dr. Adel Manna, a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, expressed bewilderment when asked about Tlaib’s “safe haven” reference.
“I don’t know what she meant,” Manna said.”
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) May 14, 2019
“Israeli historian and writer Tom Segev also said he was confused by Tlaib’s “safe haven” description.
“I have never heard anybody say that before,” he told Haaretz.”
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) May 14, 2019
Bah-roo-tal
“I really want to give her the benefit of the doubt that she really meant it,” Segev said, “but to me — and maybe I’m cynical — it sounded like an attempt to be ironic or sarcastic.”
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) May 14, 2019
More from Haaretz:
Palestinian historian Dr. Adel Manna, a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, expressed bewilderment when asked about Tlaib’s “safe haven” reference.
“I don’t know what she meant,” Manna said.
He said that history shows that Jewish immigration before, during and after the Holocaust represented a “colonial settler project” that was clearly leading to Palestinian displacement. Throughout the 1930s and ’40s, Manna said, Palestinians actively resisted Jewish immigration — as they had in the period preceding the rise of Nazism.
And:
Therefore, it was “not true” that Palestinians played any role in creating a “safe haven” for Jews, whose leaders were already planning “to occupy their country and transform it into a Jewish state,” Manna said. Zionist leaders of the time, he added, “needed people just as they needed the lands,” in order to make their “settler colonial society strong enough to gain independence and occupy the country.”
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ADL CEO says it’s unacceptable for elected officials to ‘weaponize’ Rashida Tlaib’s comments https://t.co/7bmps2zXg0
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 14, 2019
‘She’s not a damn victim’! Jonathan Chait gets torched for his ‘garbage’ defense of Rashida Tlaib https://t.co/KIy0uGrzg6
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 14, 2019
‘This is a LIE and you KNOW IT’! Ilhan Omar blatantly LIES about Trump to defend Rashida Tlaib and it goes soooo wrong https://t.co/tFG9iDWpWF
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 14, 2019
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