Washington – A Jewish politician in South Florida suggested that Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian American who just entered Congress, might “blow up Capitol Hill.”
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Anabelle Lima-Taub, a Hallandale Beach commissioner since 2016, also called Tlaib a “Hamas-loving anti-Semite” in a Facebook post.
The post, which also included a link to an online petition to oust Tlaib from office, was removed Monday after being up for nearly a week. It drew outrage in the local and national media.
Lima-Taub, a native of Israel, wrote in the post: “A Hamas-loving anti-Semite has NO place in government! She is a danger and [I] would not put it past her to become a martyr and blow up Capitol Hill.”
The American Jewish Committee was critical of her remarks.
“We have serious disagreements with @RashidaTlaib, but this hateful rhetoric directed towards her is disgusting,” AJC tweeted. “We call on the Broward County Commission to take appropriate action against the commissioner in question.”
Her commissioner colleagues condemned the post but did not call to discipline the junior commissioner.
Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, has called for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a reduction in foreign aid to Israel. This month, she suggested that backers of a series of pro-Israel bills “forgot what country they represent,” raising the specter of the dual-loyalty charge.
Lima-Taub was born in Haifa, and grew up in New York, according to the Hallandale Beach government website.
She told the NBC Miami affiliate that she stands by her post.
“I urge anyone that was offended by it, especially some of the self-righteous colleagues that I have, to research and Google BDS, Google Hamas, Google Hezbollah, look up CAIR and look up Rashida Tlaib’s affiliations with these groups,” Lima-Taub said.
Why should it surprise us,after all we just had a Muslim Jihadist and Muslim Brotherhood supporter sitting in the White House for the last 8 years
What chutzpah the orange knish brought on our heads. The yodel and and his tveet shturms, coupled with the alt-right shtetl Zionist teaching unaffiliated Jews to agitate and stir the pot of antisemitisn, has caused this foul mouthed knuckle head to shoot her grepsing mouth off. Double Feh
Finally ,someone speaking some sense .
would maybe be a good thing
A MAZAL that Hallandale Beach Fla is about 6 blocks long, population 14 thousands and the only commerce is 3 hotels a Casino and Racetrack. Most likely no one in Washington will even hear about this. The last thing we need to instigate the muslims in the USA. We live peacefully next to each other forever.
She’s gonna investigate who the $%^$# said that.
Good for Lima-Taub for standing up for the truth, but I fear that while the Muslim gets away with her hateful rhetoric, the Jewish Lima-Taub will suffer consequences! Double standards abound, and just watch and see!
Muslims don’t blow up anything, stop watching the fake news
AIPAC is once again caught asleep at the wheel.