Jerusalem – Member of Knesset Michal Shir dismissed claims by US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) that the Arabs provided a safe haven for Jews after the Holocaust.
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Speaking on the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery” on Friday, Tlaib said that thinking about the Holocaust gave her “kind of a calming feeling” in part because that her ” ancestors the Palestinians” helped create “a safe haven for Jews” after it.
“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 and it was forced on them,” she asserted.
Responding to the claims on Sunday, Shir offered Tlaib “to open a history book from time to time.”
“The Arabs did not provide the Jews with anything after the Holocaust, except more wars and death,” Shir stated. “The Jews who survived the worst of all and immigrated to Israel to join their brothers and sisters in the land of Israel were forced to deal with terrorism and the Arabs’ repeated rejection of coexistence and peace until they had no choice but to defend themselves.”
“The Arabs did not agree to recognize the right of the Jews to the state at that time, and the Arabs are certainly not willing to recognize it today,” she underscored.
“In the State of Israel, there are an estimated 1.8 million Muslims living in the most secure and democratic country in the Middle East, which affords full equality of rights between Jews and Muslims, between women and men,” she added.
Israel is a “state that protects its Muslim citizens from the Islamic State (ISIS), Hamas and Islamic Jihad, who are just waiting for an opportunity to put a hand on them. I suggest Tlaib thank the IDF for this,” she concluded.
Tlaib is the first woman of Palestinian descent to be elected to Congress. She has voiced support for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and has made comments perceived as anti-Semitic.
US lawmakers likewise slammed Tlaib for her inflammatory remarks.
“There is no justification for the twisted and disgusting comments made by Rashida Tlaib just days after the annual Day of Holocaust Remembrance,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) stated. “More than six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust; there is nothing ‘calming’ about that fact.”
“Unfortunately, this is far from the first display of heinous anti-Semitic comments coming from Democrat House members this year, and it’s clear this is now the norm for their caucus,” Scalise charged.
He said it was “long past time” for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA.) to “take swift action and make it clear that these vile comments have no place in Congress.”
“All of us, regardless of party, must stand as Americans against the evil of anti-Semitism,” said House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). “If the Democratic leadership continues to stand by in silence, they are enabling the spread of evil. History teaches us that anti-Semitism begins with words and becomes something far worse. Speaker Pelosi and Leader Hoyer must act now.”
The only Muslim country, which indirectly assisted Jews during the Shoah (which I know of), was Iran, which took in Jews, who fled from Poland. Also, when Spain kicked the Jews out during the Inquisition, Turkey admitted them.
Don’t hold your breath. She won’t open a history book. She will rewrite fact in order to continue to spew her hate and incitement. Her ideology of Islam considers such lying a virtue. We need to intensify our tefilos that she fall victim to a Muslim assassin’s bullet while in her home country. As an insurance policy, we should support anyone interested in running her out of office in the next elections.
This resheiah should go to arzarzel immediately. She hates American and she hates Israel let her go to live in Venezula
She’s a typical anti Israel Jew hating democrat
another schumer protégé, by him not rebuking her he is supporting her.
Well, I recommend the Israelis to open their history book the so tried burying but we shall never forget.
Who said “one cow in Palestine is worth kire than a thousand Jews”? The Muslims? Or the Israelis refusing to rescue their fellow brothers. Yes, they allowed many to come in but that will never wipe away their deep dark history of rejecting so may thousands.
And what did the Israelis do with the Yemenite children? Stripped them physically and spiritually forever away from their holy ancestry and left the parents to cry for them till eternity.
The filthy Zionists hava huge dark history book to open before they tell others to open theirs.