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Eugene

(62,660 posts)
Mon May 13, 2019, 11:00 PM May 2019

Democratic leaders back Muslim lawmaker after Holocaust comments

Source: Reuters

POLITICS MAY 13, 2019 / 8:00 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Democratic leaders back Muslim lawmaker after Holocaust comments

Susan Cornwell
3 MIN READ

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic leaders on Monday rallied behind a freshman lawmaker on Monday after President Donald Trump and other Republicans attacked her over comments about the Holocaust and Palestinians.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer both issued statements on Twitter saying Trump and other Republicans should apologize to Representative Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian-American from Michigan and one of two Muslim women in Congress. Presidential candidate and senator Bernie Sanders also weighed in.

On the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery” last week, Tlaib was asked about her support for a one-state solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestinians.

In a rambling answer, she said: “There’s kind of a calming feeling I always tell folks when I think of the Holocaust, and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors, Palestinians, who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways, have been wiped out, and some people’s passports.

“I mean, just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time, and 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, right, and it was forced on them,” she said.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-holocaust/democratic-leaders-back-muslim-lawmaker-after-holocaust-comments-idUSKCN1SJ2H8
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Democratic leaders back Muslim lawmaker after Holocaust comments (Original Post) Eugene May 2019 OP
She said nothing wrong. RandySF May 2019 #1
Of course she did. aranthus May 2019 #2
Terrible, inflammatory, racist article. One post already hidden on this garbage. emmaverybo May 2019 #3
What in this article has Morris written that is racist? aranthus May 2019 #5
I don't see the link to the Morris article in The Atlantic on your post anymore. emmaverybo May 2019 #7
Here it is again. aranthus May 2019 #8
Bernie Morris supports ethnic cleansing. He holds extremist Zionist views emmaverybo May 2019 #10
what's an extremist zionist view? Mosby May 2019 #12
Did you read any of what Morris has written about Palestinians in the wiki link I emmaverybo May 2019 #15
My question asked what in the article is racist? aranthus May 2019 #13
Morris promotes the theory that Arab Palestinians were responsible for, emmaverybo May 2019 #16
How is that racist? n/t aranthus May 2019 #17
She was factual as to what happened to the Palestinian people in the founding of the state emmaverybo May 2019 #4
No, she was not. aranthus May 2019 #6
His point is not a fact. Here is some factual material. The sections about ethnic cleansing are emmaverybo May 2019 #9
ifamericansknew is a antisemitic propaganda site Mosby May 2019 #11
It is anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic. Bernie Morris defends ethnic cleansing as a necessary measure emmaverybo May 2019 #14
Are they antisemitic? aranthus May 2019 #19
It's worse than that. aranthus May 2019 #18
I didn't read the link Mosby May 2019 #20
She is wrong in the fact sabbat hunter May 2019 #21

emmaverybo

(8,147 posts)
10. Bernie Morris supports ethnic cleansing. He holds extremist Zionist views
Thu May 16, 2019, 01:18 PM
May 2019

and can not be relied upon for a factual account of Israel’s founding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Morris

Mosby

(17,477 posts)
12. what's an extremist zionist view?
Thu May 16, 2019, 01:36 PM
May 2019

Care to explain?

Do you think the Jewish people have a right to live in their ancestral homeland?

emmaverybo

(8,147 posts)
15. Did you read any of what Morris has written about Palestinians in the wiki link I
Thu May 16, 2019, 02:30 PM
May 2019

Last edited Thu May 16, 2019, 03:30 PM - Edit history (1)

provided? The sources for those excerpted writings are linked to in the entry. I am not going to find each of them online separately when they are documented in the link I provided and you can yourself check them if you do not believe them to be Morris’s.
I do not think any people have the right to use force and theft to remove any indigenous people in order to occupy lands those people have lived on for thousands of years, in which they have been the dominant population.

I think I will defer to Miko Peled to discuss some of these issues. I do not think an ancestral link to original Hebrew tribes justifies the occupation, or can explain continuing apartheid:









emmaverybo

(8,147 posts)
16. Morris promotes the theory that Arab Palestinians were responsible for,
Thu May 16, 2019, 03:33 PM
May 2019

to paraphrase him, the indirect or direct destruction of European Jews. He then details the “evidence.”

emmaverybo

(8,147 posts)
4. She was factual as to what happened to the Palestinian people in the founding of the state
Thu May 16, 2019, 01:26 AM
May 2019

of Israel, but lacking in political finesse talking about that. She was disingenuous when she said it all gave her comfort. No way!

Mosby

(17,477 posts)
11. ifamericansknew is a antisemitic propaganda site
Thu May 16, 2019, 01:32 PM
May 2019

It used to be banned at DU2.

Ask the host, Lithos if you need more information.

Whether you like Morris of not, the vast majority of his piece was simply stating facts.

emmaverybo

(8,147 posts)
14. It is anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic. Bernie Morris defends ethnic cleansing as a necessary measure
Thu May 16, 2019, 02:08 PM
May 2019

to achieve a Jewish state. The wiki entry I linked to provides ample documentation of his extremist views, shocking positions, in fact. His theory blaming Palestinians for the holocaust, “directly and indirectly” is alone discrediting.
Is Miko Peled banned? Norman Finkelstein?
I could have provided other sources that establish that Palestinians were victims of ethnic cleansing, driven out of their lands and homes to become permanent refugees, and are an occupied people.
I, however, refuse to debate with anyone who subscribes to Morris’s beliefs.
If any source should be banned in a discussion of the conflict, it is a Bernie Morris.
Is the group Jewish Voice for Peace anti-Semitic?
What about the journal Mondoweiss online?
J Street?
End of.
I leave it to admin.
I certainly do not think Morris is a credible or sane source for any discussion.
Miko Peled, not a scholar, but an avid researcher, is featured in Youtube videos lectures about what he, the grandson of an Israeli state founder, son of a General during the six day war, former Israeli soldier, discovered about state founding myths.
It must be understood that any scholarship that counters the official story is not represented in mainstream American media. Norman Finkelstein could not get his most recent book about Gaza reviewed by the NYT and was labeled as pro-Palestinian for his challenges to the hard right wing in Israel and his writings about the plight of the Palestinian people. Dershowitz called him “not a real Jew,” despite the fact that both his parents are concentration camp survivors.
I leave it to admin.

aranthus

(3,386 posts)
18. It's worse than that.
Thu May 16, 2019, 06:10 PM
May 2019

He's citing to If American's Knew, which is citing to "The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict." Essentially, he's citing to a hate site which is citing to a fraud. It's highly unlikely that Jews for Justice in the Middle East is a Jewish organization.

Mosby

(17,477 posts)
20. I didn't read the link
Thu May 16, 2019, 06:19 PM
May 2019

Alison weir (owner of IAK) is so bad JVP won't even work with her.

Weir has been a repeat and friendly guest of white supremacist Clay Douglas on his hate radio show, the Free American. Clay Douglas is concerned primarily with the survival of the White race and sees malign Jewish influence everywhere. His racist, anti-Jewish, and anti-gay rhetoric can be found across the front pages of his multiple websites.

In the course of Weir’s appearance with Clay Douglas on August 25, 2010, for example, she was silent when Douglas invoked the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and engaged in a racist diatribe against Jews. Her troubling associations and choices further include giving interviews to a range of far-right outlets including The American Free Press, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified as a hate group, and the anti-gay, anti-Jewish pastor Mark Dankof.

Not only have we not seen evidence that she has disavowed, debated, or challenged the thinking of any of these outlets or institutions, Weir has made clear in her response to our letter that she will proudly continue her practice of pursuing airtime on white supremacist radio shows and other such outlets without refuting, debating, or otherwise decrying their racist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic beliefs. She is entitled to continue this strategy, just as we are entitled to decide not to work with her.


https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/jewish-voice-for-peace-statement-on-our-relationship-with-alison-weir/

sabbat hunter

(6,894 posts)
21. She is wrong in the fact
Thu May 23, 2019, 08:25 PM
May 2019

that Israel was created due to the Holocaust. It was already promised well before that after WW1. Jews were migrating there long before the Holocaust.

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