Conservatives Aren’t Buying Tlaib’s Israel Trip Narrative: Maybe She ‘Doesn’t Really Want a Visit With Her Grandmother’
Rep. Rashida Tlaib won’t be accepting the offer by Israel to allow her to visit her grandmother. The nation, which barred her visit initially, made an exception on humanitarian grounds that Tlaib could visit if she agreed to their conditions.
Tlaib, under pressure from the radical group who sponsored her visit, requested and then un-accepted that invitation. She tweeted about her decision, saying that “treating me like a criminal” is not her grandmother would want for her.
She said she can’t “allow the State of Israel to take away” the light she is shining on “inhumane” conditions” by “humiliating” her.
When I won, it gave the Palestinian people hope that someone will finally speak the truth about the inhumane conditions. I can’t allow the State of Israel to take away that light by humiliating me & use my love for my sity to bow down to their oppressive & racist policies. https://t.co/OYIwExV0ga
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) August 16, 2019
Silencing me & treating me like a criminal is not what she wants for me. It would kill a piece of me. I have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in–fighting against racism, oppression & injustice. https://t.co/z5t5j3qk4H
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) August 16, 2019
Contrary to the notion that she was being silenced by Israel, though, her own letter requesting the visit specified she would not engage in BDS activity.
But the on-again-off-again visit was more like a PR stunt than an actual effort on her part, according to some.
TLAIB: Give me a visa so I can destroy your nation from within.
ISRAEL: No.
TLAIB: Ok. Can I at least have a humanitarian visa to visit my dear gamgam? Pretty please? She needs me.
ISRAEL: Sure. But no Nazi crap while you’re here.
TLAIB: Never mind.https://t.co/gjjALQoV4s— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 16, 2019
Tlaib hates Jews more than she loves her grandmother — which is pretty much a microcosm of the Israeli-Palestinian situation. https://t.co/xeuJw7yd42
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) August 16, 2019
Maybe Tlaib doesn’t really want a visit with her grandmother … and would rather have the *issue* remain alive. https://t.co/V5vfm4td2W
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) August 16, 2019
So Israel cuts her some slack & she comes back & talks more smack after they grant her request & declineshttps://t.co/n0X0KINeAp
What a complete & utter embarrassment she is https://t.co/i4a5QhBtUk
— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) August 16, 2019
The article that @RashidaTlaib tweeted says “Tlaib then submitted a request and, on Friday, the Israeli Ministry of Interior said she would be allowed to visit her family in a strictly personal trip…”
So she submitted a request and then publicly turned it down when approved? https://t.co/LapER2j8Wz
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) August 16, 2019
Tlaib: “Let’s go to Palestine.”
Omar: “Israel has hypnotized the world.”
Israel: “Yeah, you’re not coming.”
Tlaib: “RACIST!”
Israel: “Fine, you can come, just don’t call for a global boycott of our country for a few days.”
Tlaib: “I’M NOT COMING STOP OPPRESSING ME!”
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) August 16, 2019
Tlaib whined to go to @Israel and @IsraeliPM said no b/c they let NO ONE in who supports the hate-based BDS nonsense. Israel then granted permission for Tlaib to come but Tlaib now say she isn’t coming. It was NEVER abt visiting for her; was about making a scene.
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) August 16, 2019
Huge congrats to Rashida Tlaib, whose bigotry and unparalleled political skills have joined forces to explode her grievance narrative, shift the PR battle back into Israel’s favor & gratuitously shun her own grandmother?
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) August 16, 2019
No one said Tlaib can’t express her opinions about Israel. The law is specific – it’s about boycotts. And she knows that, she only mentioned not promoting boycotts in the letter to Deri. https://t.co/BLBpQtqFMi
— Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) August 16, 2019
The group that sponsored the trip, which pressured Tlaib not to accept the humanitarian visit with her grandmother in exchange for agreeing not to participate in anti-Israel activity while there, is also facing heavy criticism.
Under the heading “Is Israel the Only Possible Homeland for Jews?”, this article questioning the appropriateness of Israel as the location of a Jewish homeland was posted by Miftah, one of the sponsors of the proposed Tlaib/Omar visit to Israel:https://t.co/KX1PwrZGy1 pic.twitter.com/eMPOfhopYQ
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) August 16, 2019
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