'I'm proud of you': That’s what Barack Obama told Muslim Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib who drew fire for anti-Semitism and vowed to 'impeach the motherfucker' Trump
By David Martosko
Daily Mail
March 29, 2019
A Democratic congresswoman who vowed in vulgar language to impeach President Donald Trump and later suggested pro-Israel Jewish members of Congress have dual loyalties got a thumbs-up this week from Barack Obama.
The former president 'met with us new members of Congress and we had a thoughtful discussion about serving our country,' Rep. Rashida Tlaib wrote Thursday on Instagram and Twitter.
'The best part was when he looked straight at me and said, "I'm proud of you".'
The posts included a photo of Tlaib and Obama grinning, with the former president's arm around her. Tlaib spokesman Denzel McCampbell told DailyMail.com that it was taken Monday night.
Obama tweeted about the event on Tuesday, writing that the new Democratic House freshmen are 'a young, diverse class, stocked with a bunch of my campaign and administration alums who’ve taken the torch. This group is going to be driving progress for a long time to come.'
Tlaib is one of just three Muslim members of Congress.
She was photographed at an event in January posing with Abbas Hamideh, a Palestinian activist who has praised the Hamas and Hezbollah terror organizations, equated pro-Israel Jews to Nazis and claimed Israel has no right to exist.
'Yes, I am Muslim and Palestinian. Get over it,' Tlaib tweeted amid that controversy.
She also supports the 'Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions' (BDS) movement, which aims to economically isolate Israel.
According to The Times of Israel, however, her official website is built on Wix, an Israeli-owned platform.
American Jewish leaders condemned her in January after she suggested that lawmakers who supported an anti-BDS measure held dual loyalties.
'They forgot what country they represent,' Tlaib tweeted at the time. 'This is the U.S. where boycotting is a right & part of our historical fight for freedom & equality.'
Questioning the national loyalty of American Jews is an age-old anti-Semitic canard meant to attack their patriotism.
Tlaib has also been criticized for following an Instagram account called 'free.palestine.1948,' a name referring to the year of Israel's founding.
That account routinely posts anti-Semitic memes that compare Jews to rats, call them a 'plague' and suggest moneyed Jews control the U.S. news media.
One image on the account directly compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler and suggested he was behind the 9/11 terror attacks.
When challenged about the account's content this year, its owner responded: 'Haha make me laugh fuck you and fuck israhell […] you wankers will never like the truth.'
Tlaib first burst onto Americans' radar just hours after she was sworn in as a Michigan congresswoman, when she was videotaped at a party saying that she had promised her young son that Democrats would remove President Donald Trump for power.
'We're going to impeach the motherfucker,' she said.
6 comments:
She sounds radicalized.
Very true, but hardly a surprise.
The sadest part of this is she is hurting other Muslims and Palestinian-American candidates who could run for office.
She could have been a unifier who brought people together as somewhat of a trailblazer. Instead she is blazing a trail of hate and division and accomplishing nothing except exposing herself as an anti Semite nut job.
Right you are Anon, but at least she has exposed Obama for the anti-Semite he is.
True, but sadly American Jews for some reason either dont get it or simply dont care. Obama maintains Stratisfirically high approval ratings in the American Jewish community according to every poll.
As a an American and someone of the Jewish faith, I served the United States in the intelligence world for over 30 years. I remember a ground swell change when that traitorous bastard, Jonathan Pollard was arrested. That's when people began questioning the loyalties of American Jews in the agency . It was believed that we had duel loyalties, to both America and Israel. That bastard, who should have been executed, did more damage to the countless American Jews who got up everyday with one and only one concern; how can I best do my job to protect the United States?I noticed after that and unfortunately continuing to this day, there is at least a subtle belief in the intelligence community that Jews have dual loyalty. The sad truth about Pollard is we discovered that Israel was his last stop. He had tried selling the information to several others but they rebuffed him, as he came across as a money hungry coke-head who was unreliable, which he was.
From my seat at the theater, he did more harm to Jews than some insane jihadist congresswoman could ever do.
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