Lushington D Brady gave these scumbag politicians a roasting saying “the increasingly fringe-left Democrat party can’t defend their anti-Semitic weird sisters strongly enough” asking “given that Tlaib and Omar so obviously hate Israel, why would they even want to visit? What possible motive would they have, other than to incite almost certain violence against Israel?“
It is a very good question because Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib still haven’t stopped ridiculing Jews, they just can’t help themselves.
After being banned from entering Israel because of ‘their support for the “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement’ they both shared an anti-Semitic cartoon on Twitter. The cartoon depicts Netanyahu and Trump silencing the “heroes” of Palestinian oppression and was created by an artist who has created anti-Semitic imagery, mocked victims of the Holocaust and participated in Iran’s holocaust denial contest. Yes, there was such a thing!
“Tlaib then applied for a humanitarian visa so she could visit her grandmother in a Palestinian village, promising not to promote boycotts of Israel while traveling there. Her request was granted, but she then turned down the offer Friday, claiming that Israel was trying to silence her.”
Breitbart
It’s clear their request for entry into Israel was just a publicity stunt and they didn’t actually expect to be allowed in. Imagine their surprise when they were initially issued the visas as part of a bipartisan congressional delegation to Israel.
Donald Trump was the recipient of media vitriol after taking the blame for pressuring Israel into revoking their visas.
Omar and Tlaib must have been relieved to avoid visiting the home of the people they openly despise, but unfortunately, Tlaib had dragged her 90-year-old grandmother into their shifty scheme and she was furious.
After the visas were revoked Trump, in typical Trump style, said on Twitter the real winner was Tlaib’s grandmother “who doesn’t have to see her now.”
“Trump tells me I should be happy Rashida is not coming,” the elder Tlaib told Reuters, from her garden in the Palestinian village of Beit Ur Al-Fauqa. “May God ruin him.”
Business Insider
Naturally, Tlaib’s grandmother blames Trump, but the real villain is the Palestinian group, Miftah, who masterminded the congressional visit.
“Writing yesterday, the Washington Post said that “Omar and Tlaib’s trip to Jerusalem and the West Bank was planned by Miftah, a nonprofit organization headed by Palestinian lawmaker and longtime peace negotiator Hanan Ashrawi.”
The New York Times described it as an organization “headed by a longtime Palestinian lawmaker.” In its editorial, the New York Times editorial board identified it as a group “that promotes ‘global awareness and knowledge of Palestinian realities.’”
National Review
Seth Mandel from the Washington Examiner lifted the lid on this vile anti-Semitic group.
“I started looking at the articles and views published on the Miftah website, and it was like peeling an onion of evil. There was layer upon layer of vile anti-Semitism.
…[Miftah] published an American neo-Nazi treatise called “Who Rules America: The Alien Grip on Our News and Entertainment Media Must Be Broken”.
[…]But that’s not all, not by a long shot. The group celebrates terrorists, including an evil woman who helped murder 13 Israeli children.
In an article titled “Let Us Honor Our Own,” a Miftah contributor describes Dalal Al Mughrabi as “a Palestinian fighter who was killed during a military operation against Israel in 1978” and as one of the Palestinian people’s “national heroes.” The so-called “military operation” is more widely known as the “Coastal Road Massacre,” a bus hijacking that resulted in the deaths of 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children.
Al Mughrabi is hardly the only terrorist Miftah celebrates. It described female suicide bomber Wafa Idrees as the “the beginning of a string of Palestinian women dedicated to sacrificing their lives for the cause.” It singles out for recognition Hanadi Jaradat, a woman who blew herself up in a restaurant, killing 21 people (including four children).”
National Review
Omar and Tlaib’s publicity stunt inadvertently bit them off more than they could chew. They linked themselves to a Palestinian pro-terrorist group, stirred up international discord and upset a 90-year-old woman who will probably never see her granddaughter again after Israel officially banned them both from visiting.
These two bungling politicians epitomize why Palestinians have, for decades, taken one step forward and two steps back in gaining international support for the Palestinian plight.