Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) spoke at a rally this month with a pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah Terrorist newspaper publisher who prompted Palestinians to assault Israel. Tlaib shared the stage with Osama Siblani, the publisher of the Dearborn-based Arab American News, at the 2nd yearly Metro Detroit March for Jerusalem Palestine on May 15.
Siblani, whose paper cosponsored the occasion, urged Arabs in Michigan and in other places to “fight within their means” against Israel, whether it be with “stones,” “guns,” or “their hands.” He sang the applauds of the “fedayeen”– Islamic militants– for “striking Israel with knives and with their bare hands.”
In her speech, Tlaib railed against what she called the “apartheid” Israeli government and advised Arab Americans to run for office in order to advance the Palestinian cause in Washington, D.C.
Tlaib has actually become among the most singing anti-Israel activists in Congress and is a strong backer of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) motion, which intends to cause financial damage to Israel. Tlaib has actually implicated Jewish advocates of Israel of holding double commitments, a term commonly agreed to be anti-Semitic in nature.
Siblani has an extensive history of applauding the terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas. He informed the Washington Post in 2003 that he saw Hamas and Hezbollah as “freedom fighters” instead of terrorists. He informed the Chicago Tribune in 2006 that he would “be willing to go to jail” if the FBI chose to assemble fans of Hezbollah. Tlaib’s project has actually accepted $1,250 in contributions from Siblani given that 2018, consisting of $500 on March 13, according to Federal Election Commission records. Tlaib’s campaign spent $1,025 in 2020 on ads in Siblani’s paper, which has a history of publishing anti-Semitic content.
The Michigan rally included other questionable speakers, including Rabbi Dovid Weiss. The anti-Zionist activist has attended Holocaust denial occasions with previous Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and previous Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Weiss gave a gift to the head of Hezbollah at an occasion in Beirut in 2018.
The Michigan rally was held to honor “the Nakba,” a Palestinian expression for Israel’s starting that loosely equates to “the disaster.” Tlaib and other House members connected with “the Squad” presented a resolution a day after the rally requiring the U.S. federal government to acknowledge “Nakba Day.” Pro-Israel groups and Jewish legislators called the resolution anti-Semitic.
“This resolution is just the latest in a long line of anti-Semitic, anti-Israel statements, policies and actions by the most radical voices in the Democratic Party,” Rep. Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.), who is Jewish, said in a statement. “This group on the far-left never misses an opportunity to dangerously promote anti-Semitic and anti-Israel sentiments and agendas.”
The Coalition for Jewish Values, an advocacy group representing more than 2,000 rabbis, stated Tlaib’s promo of the Nakba resolution is an “indelible stain on Congress.”
“Every Member of Congress, especially those who are Jewish, has a moral obligation to repudiate this hateful resolution,” Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, the group’s president, said in a statement, adding that “the real catastrophe is that we have reached the point that this was introduced.”
The Republican Jewish Coalition described the Nakba Day resolution as “another attempt by the most radical leftists in Congress to delegitimize our ally Israel and to promote anti-Israel and frankly anti-Semitic efforts to destroy the only democracy in the Middle East.”
Throughout Nakba Day presentations in Ramallah and other Palestinian areas, speakers advocated for Israel’s destruction and devoted themselves to performing terrorism operations versus the Jewish state.
Tlaib came under fire in August 2021 when she declared that rich pro-Israel forces are “behind the curtain” managing U.S. policy. The declaration was extensively condemned as an anti-Semitic dog whistle by groups like the Anti-Defamation League and the Conference of Presidents, which represents significant Jewish-American advocacy companies.
