CNN’s Dana Bash Asks Democrat to ‘Connect Dots’ on Anti-Israel Attackers Shouting ‘Free Palestine!’

CNN’s Dana Bash asked Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH) to “connect dots” between the suspects behind recent anti-Semitic attacks in Boulder, Colorado and Washington, D.C. on Monday.

Bash’s conversation came fewer than 24 hours after a man injured multiple demonstrators in Boulder expressing solidarity with Hamas’ hostages and less than two weeks after another man shot two Israeli embassy workers dead in the nation’s capital.

“So he [the Boulder suspect] allegedly used the term ‘Free Palestine!’, which is what the suspect here in Washington who killed two people at a Jewish Heritage Month event said allegedly after he — actually we saw him saying it on tape — after that murder. Today we also, according to police, know that this suspect said, ‘I want to avenge my people,'” observed Bash. “Can you connect dots there and can you explain, not just from your perch as a lawmaker, but also given the background that you have in your studies and your schooling?”

“Yeah, so there’s three phrases here that people should get to know better,” asserted Landsman before answering the question in full:

One of them is the use of Zionism, and I believe he said-, And Zionism is simply this idea of Jewish self-determination, where Jews, because of the history, but also just because we’re human beings, have the right to self-determination, that we believe in having a place for us. And that is true for everybody. Everyone should have a place of themselves. And so there isn’t anything wrong with that, I don’t believe. And to say you can’t have that is anti-Semitic. Also to say, “We’re gonna end-, I’m gonna end Zionists,” that is a threat to kill Jews.

The second has to do with the global intifada. The intifada, there were two, included, included, wasn’t limited to, but included suicide bombings and killing of Jews. So you don’t wanna globalize that.

And then the third has to with “Free Palestine!” If you believe that Israel is there and should not be there, the idea of “Free Palestine” means not peace for Palestinians, which this group was supporting, which I support and am working hard for. “Free Palestine” means getting rid of all of the Jews, either by kicking them out or by killing them. That means that there is no more Israel.

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