Rashida Tlaib [D-Mich.] reports that thinking about the Holocaust gives her a 'calming feeling' (leader, states)

[teddyearp]

Originally Posted by biggunsmallbrains

What is it that you don’t like about her statement? That Palestinians gave sanctuary to Jews during WW II?

That is a complete LIE!

[mash123]

Originally Posted by teddyearp

That is a complete LIE!

In this era when all the human knowledge is 3 clicks away, how people can lie like that and expect to get away?
Just unbelievable.

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

There’s another representative from Michigan of Palestinian descent - Justin Amash. He’s never made the sort of public comments that Tlaib has.

[jbgusa]

Originally Posted by mash123

The Jewish illegal immigration was about 10% of the legal one. The Brits caught most of the illegals and sent them to camps in Cyprus.
The Arabs were offered a state along with Israel, but they wanted all the land to themselves, and lost. "Palestine" was never an Arab state and the struggle for Jewish state there was a fair game.

All quite true, and lost in the anti-Semitic garbage. They lost four wars and want a mulligan.

[jbgusa]

Originally Posted by kdog

AND, two days later, the editor of JTA published a retraction of that ^^ previous statement and admitted they got sucked into the Republican distortion of her words.
Read: What did Rashida Tlaib say about the Holocaust? It’s probably not what you think | JTA


Personally, I don't like Tlaib either. But false claims of antisemitism are just as bad as antisemitism and neither are acceptable.

Here's the verbatim quote:

Originally Posted by Rashida Tlaib

Absolutely. Let me tell you — I mean, for me, I think two weeks ago we celebrated, or took a moment I think in our country to remember, the Holocaust. And there’s a kind of a calming feeling, I always tell folks, when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust in the fact that it was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways had been wiped out, and some people’s passports — I mean, just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that, right?, in many ways. But they did it in a way that took their human dignity away, right, and it was forced on them.

The bolded words are discordant at best, horrific at worst. One does not "celebrate" the Holocaust - ever.

Originally Posted by Ultor

The actual context of Tlaib's revisionist diatribe was the "one-state solution" and how wonderful it would be for the Jews.

That would result in another slaughter, but with death by rape, bludgeoning, stabbing and shooting to some extent supplanting the cold, clinical efficiency of the gas chambers.

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

There’s another representative from Michigan of Palestinian descent - Justin Amash. He’s never made the sort of public comments that Tlaib has.

It's possible he's NOT an anti-Semite. So vote out the ones who are.

[mash123]

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[RowingFiend]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

Here's the verbatim quote:
The bolded words are discordant at best, horrific at worst. One does not "celebrate" the Holocaust - ever.That would result in another slaughter, but with death by rape, bludgeoning, stabbing and shooting to some extent supplanting the cold, clinical efficiency of the gas chambers.

Wow, did she actually say "celebrate"?

Freudian slip.

[lvmensch]

Originally Posted by RowingFiend

Wow, did she actually say "celebrate"?

Freudian slip.

She was wrong but not a terrible error. She was using it in terms of a holiday celebrating something. Bad usage for the Holocaust which is a day of remembrance rather than celebration.

[prospectheightsresident]

Today's Democrat Party for you.