US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) called Israel a “racist state” in an interview Tuesday with the left-wing news program Democracy Now!, and falsely claimed that it was denying coronavirus vaccines to Palestinians.
“I think it’s really important to understand Israel is a racist state and that they would deny Palestinians, like my grandmother, access to a vaccine, that they don’t believe that she’s an equal human being that deserves to live, deserves to be able to be protected by this global pandemic,” Rep. Tlaib said in the interview with program host Amy Goodman.
Jewish groups have criticized recent claims that Israel is preventing COVID-19 vaccines from reaching Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, noting that the authority to acquire and distribute them belongs to the Palestinian Authority. Last month, the Palestinian health ministry approved a Russian vaccine against the coronavirus, and is expected to receive shipments of the shot next month.
“They have the power to distribute that vaccine to the Palestinian people, their own neighbors, again, feet away from where they live, many of which, again, could expose them and their family,” Tlaib continued. “If anything, it just reiterates what the Palestinian people and even human rights groups have been telling us, is that this is an apartheid state.”
“Will anyone on the Left condemn this phony attack on Israel?”, tweeted Richard Grenell, a former US Ambassador to Germany and Acting Director of National Intelligence who is now a special US envoy to Serbia and Kosovo.
“Jewish-Americans would like a word, Congresswoman,” tweeted Bradley P. Moss, a prominent national security attorney.
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Rep. @RashidaTlaib on Israel not vaccinating Palestinians:
“It’s really important to understand that Israel is a racist state, in that they would deny Palestinians like my grandmother access to a vaccine, that they don’t believe she’s an equal human being who deserves to live." pic.twitter.com/vPCeXjdqrZ
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 19, 2021
She is a classical anti Zionist, Jew hater!
This is what the Democratic Party represents. So embarrassing that so many Yidden blindly support it.
Yes, we should be above politics but I’m tired of being asked why so many Jews support the party that hates us.
Only the Eibishter could create such a paradox of self-hatred.
Not saying that the Republican Party is always right but they’ve at least publicly supported Israel, Jews, and freedom of religion.
“Classical” is a genre of music. Also the Jew haters are actually the guys in the red hats storming the capitol while screaming trumps name.
So people lying about Israel aren’t actually Jew-haters, but those who support a pro-Jewish president are. What an upside-down, twisted world you live in.
I would love to hear all the progressives who claim to be against bigotry, and who condemn the Trump administration as as bigots, speaking up now.
But of course they won’t, because they’re only against bigotry when it supports their political agenda. And speaking out against this virulent anti-Semite isn’t in the interests of their political agenda.
Future politicians will learn: don’t bother with pro-Jewish statements and policies. Jews will just conveniently forget or downplay them, and smear you as an anti-Semite. Instead, attack Jews whenever and wherever possible, and maybe you’ll get a few tut-tuts, but you’ll still be elected and re-elected.
What this means for the future of Jewish life in these United States is left to the imagination.
And all those Jewish libs and dems who support her, so sad.
But Progressive Zionists exist. Unlike the right that constantly denies their mistakes and problematic elements, we call out our own and she will be held accountable.
the Palestinian Authority is responsible for delivering medical care in its territories, according to the Oslo Accords signed in 1993. And the Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank, has said it does not want Israel’s help and is working to purchase vaccines of its own. It expects to receive its first shipment of a Russian-developed vaccine next month. But right now they — like other national leaders around the world — are focused on their own citizens, including the nearly 2 million Arab Israeli citizens who are part of the current vaccination campaign. From timesofisrael