Washington – The Anti-Defamation League wants Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., to explain a photo of her posing with a man who has likened Zionists to Nazis and who has praised terrorists.
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“Days ago, @RashidaTlaib was photographed at an event with Abbas Hamideh, a man who has praised terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah and equated Zionists with Nazis,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said Thursday on Twitter. “We ask her to clarify his attendance and denounce his anti-Semitism.”
Hamideh, based in Cleveland, has for years been involved in anti-Israel activity, praising terrorist groups like the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, and repeatedly likening Zionists to Nazis.
On Jan. 12, he posted on Twitter a photo in which he is standing next to Tlaib, holding a painting of the congresswoman, a freshman who is a Palestinian American, wearing traditional Palestinian dress in front of the Capitol.
“I was honored to be at Congresswoman @RashidaTlaib swearing-in ceremony in #Detroit and private dinner afterward with the entire family, friends and activists across the country,” he said in the tweet.
A number of conservative outlets reported on the tweet, but the closest Tlaib has come to addressing it is in a dismissive tweet. “Right-wing media targeting me again rather than focusing on the President’s reckless government shutdown,” said Tlaib, who is one of two Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives who have endorsed the boycott Israel movement. “Yes, I am Muslim and Palestinian. Get over it.”
Hamideh was unrepentant Thursday on Twitter. “I know what I said that’s why I wrote them on here but thanks for making them go viral,” he said to the ADL and other critics of his tweets.
This needs to be dealt with loudly.
She is making noise and needs to know that Americans do not agree.
Or do we?
she is a disciple of the Mufti husseini ymsh and hates yiiden , of course she just hates Israelis. The fact she was elected by a district densely populated by arabs
Where is aipac?
Hashomer nothing to explain right?
there’s nothing for her to “explain” – THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR HER need to explain why they voted for someone who is ANTI-AMERICAN
While praising terrorists is ahld b dealt with but comparing Zionists with Nazis, shes not off at all. It were the vile Nazis collaborating with the Zionists in an effort to hinder the rescue of thousands of jews that was very successful unfortunately.
While she does not know this piece of tragic history, she shld indeed shut up but its the unfortunate truth.
If she keeps talking so loud she will never make a second term.
And of course that phony “Shomer Yisrael” Shumer, Fat putz Nadler, Schiff and all the other self-hating jews are quiet as mice about this dangerous Hamas-lover/jew-hater. Democrat Party Uber Alles.
A price we pay for the right to express our opinions openly.
What’s to explain? She has the same feelings he does!
She is much better than Banon was. He was a NAZI. This woman is only anti zionism. Big difference 70% of frumme are anti-zionist. We cant expect a gayteh to be frummer than we are.
Hey ADL this Jew hater is the future of the Democrat party you so blindly support
There were no “very fine people” on the white supremacist side of the march, except by the standards of other white supremacists.
Haters hate. Liars lie. Trump’s America in four words.
YONI in 2020!