Posted on 05/13/2019 5:14:11 PM PDT by SJackson
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is asking for an apology from the Republicans hammering Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) over her recent comments on Israel and the Holocaust.
Hoyer said the Republicans, including President Trump, are twisting Tlaib's words in criticizing them as anti-Semitic.
"If you read Rep. Tlaib’s comments, it is clear that President Trump and Congressional Republicans are taking them out of context," Hoyer said in a brief email. "They must stop, and they owe her an apology."
Several hours later, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) also weighed in, amplifying the call for Trump and Tlaib's GOP critics to apologize.
"Republicans’ desperate attempts to smear @RepRashida & misrepresent her comments are outrageous," Pelosi tweeted. "President @realDonaldTrump & House GOP should apologize to Rep. Tlaib & the American people for their gross misrepresentations."
At issue is a recent interview Tlaib, one of two Muslim women in Congress, gave to Yahoo News’s “Skullduggery” podcast, in which she lamented that many Palestinians lost their land and "human dignity" when Israel was created following World War II.
She went on to say that she also gets "a calming feeling" knowing that the geopolitical shake-up also sheltered Jews who suffered "horrific persecution," both in the Holocaust and throughout history.
"There’s always kind of a calming feeling, I 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," she said in the interview, which aired Saturday.
"And 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," she continued. "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, and it was forced on them."
Republicans wasted little time attacking Tlaib for comments they characterized as anti-Semitic.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) called the remarks "sickening," urging Democratic leaders to condemn the Michigan freshman. Rep. Steve Scalise (La.), the Republican whip, blasted Tlaib for "twisted and disgusting comments." And Trump piled on Monday morning, accusing Tlaib of harboring "tremendous hatred" toward Israel.
"Democrat Rep. Tlaib is being slammed for her horrible and highly insensitive statement on the Holocaust," he tweeted. "She obviously has tremendous hatred of Israel and the Jewish people. Can you imagine what would happen if I ever said what she said, and says?"
Tlaib has fought back, accusing the Republicans of skewing her words for political gain.
"Policing my words, twisting & turning them to ignite vile attacks on me will not work," she said. "All of you who are trying to silence me will fail miserably. I will never allow you to take my words out of context to push your racist and hateful agenda. The truth will always win."
Aside from Hoyer, a number of Tlaib's fellow Democrats are also rushing to her defense. The list includes Reps. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), another Muslim freshman who was embroiled in her own controversy surrounding comments deemed anti-Semitic earlier in the year.
"This is another transparent attempt to sow division b/t minority communities and distract from your own criminal behavior by smearing a Muslim woman," Omar tweeted Monday, responding to Trump's criticism of Tlaib.
"No one should fall for it this time."
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Steny Akbar!
Tomorrow Princess Warren claims credit for King Philip and the boys making room for the palefaces. No, not a good comparison. I'm hard pressed for other examples of groups losing wars of extermination, and claiming credit for opening territory for the winners. I'm sure there are some.
So the cat is out of the bag. The Democrat Party is the party of anti semitism and holocaust denial.
Not necessarily Holocaust denial. Denial of history, you bet. Just look at their actions here.
“So the cat is out of the bag. The Democrat Party is the party of anti semitism and holocaust denial.”
And American Jews will *still* vote Democrat!
What’s a Steny?
Oh, SUUUUUURE, the anti-Semite is the victim here.
This is the problem with Dems - they cannot hide who they are any longer. I simple cannot understand how sensible people in the Dem Party (and, yes, there are a few - even though I strongly disagree with their policy positions) can allow this crap to continue.
Hoyer is supposed to be one of the adults in the room...but its like the Lord of the Flies island, and he’s just one of the gang. Moron should have come right out and said that she did not speak for him, and that SHE owed an apology for the horrible use of language when describing the Holocaust.
“And American Jews will *still* vote Democrat!”
Democrats have perfected playing the victim when they are the bully/aggressor/offender.
Shut. Up.
Tlaib is an anti-Semite and she has a foreign loyalty.
Kind of like the “context” got messed up when Trump said Russia might want to see if they could find PIAPS’ emails.
Like the Indian said to the White Politician while walking through the barnyard after his speech “Careful, don’t step in the Hoyer!”
“Tlaib is an anti-Semite and she has a foreign loyalty.”
In other words, she’s a Mooslim!
N.S.D.A.P.!
A vote for ANY Democrat, whether it be in a local, state or federal election, is a vote against America!
America cannot survive a Democrat victory in 2020!
Steny Hoyer is Pelosi’s own private eunuch.
The lie continues
“... 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,” she continued. “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, and it was forced on them.”
League of Nations establishes the Palestinian Mandate...
“Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
” ...out of context...” means that it is what it says.
Millions of Jews also got a ‘warm feeling’ in the 1940s. Well, not quite, they had been had gassed by then.
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