Haneen Ashrawi
Posted on 08/18/2019 10:49:42 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
In the midst of the hot takes offered up by the 2020 Democrat candidates when the two anti-Semitic U.S. congresswomen were denied entry into Israel, the guy at the front of the pack was quickly reminded that former President Obama’s administration made a similar decision.
Joe Biden posted a tweet meant to criticize the Israeli government’s decision. He said he is a supporter of Israel but no one should be denied entry into a democratic state over “ideas”. “No democracy should deny entry to visitors based on the content of their ideas”, he said.
Joe Biden:
I have always been a stalwart supporter of Israel—a vital partner that shares our democratic values. No democracy should deny entry to visitors based on the content of their ideas—even ideas they strongly object to. And no leader of the free world should encourage them to do so.
Under normal circumstances, this would be a reasonable opinion from an American accustomed to First Amendment rights. In the case of congresswomen Tlaib, however, the fact that an organization that is known for supporting the BDS movement and the elimination of Israel was sponsoring her trip certainly played a role in the decision. When it became clear that Tlaib’s motivation was to go to Israel and provoke controversy on behalf of Palestine, it shouldn’t be surprising that denial of entry was made.
Hey, remember that time that the Obama administration made a similar decision? As a matter of fact, the Obama administration made a similar move in 2012 when the State Department denied entry to a member of the Israeli Knesset. Ben Shapiro quickly reminded Biden he was vice-president when that happened.
Ben Shapiro:
Remember that time the Obama administration barred a member of Israeli Knesset from entering the United States in 2012? Because you were vice president at the time. https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1162074225265512448
In that case, the person denied a visa to enter the United States to attend a conference was Michael Ben Ari. The reason given was that, according to the State Department, Ben Ari had ties to a terrorist group. This idea centered around Ben Ari’s conservative views and actions. He follows Kahanism ideology which means he believes that Arabs shouldn’t be living in Israel and shouldn’t have voting rights in Israel. The Kach party has been banned by the Israeli government and the U.S. State Department has labeled it a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
Michael Ben Ari’s denial of entry would fall into the same category as Tlaib’s since both were denied due to their political statements. Yet Biden only voiced objection to one and that happened in the course of his Democrat primary campaign. Biden didn’t personally make the decision in 2012, of course, but I am surprised he weighed in as he did, given the dreadful relationship the Obama administration had with Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu in particular.
At the time of Ben Ari’s denial of entry, the President of the Knesset, Reuven Rivlin voiced his opposition.
Shapiro was referring to an incident in 2012 in which Israeli Knesset Member Michael Ben Ari was denied an entry visa by then-President Obama’s State Department who claimed he had ties to a terrorist group. President Reuven Rivlin responded to the ban, calling it “an assault on the Knesset as a whole.” Rivlin said, ”The United States’ allegation that an MK is a terrorist is unacceptable.”
It is also noteworthy that despite garnering more than 70 percent of the Jewish vote in his elections, Obama, with Biden at his side, pursued policies that were anti-Israel including a deal greenlighting Iran’s nuclear program at the same time the country was ringing with calls of “Death to Israel and America” and running tests of intercontinental missiles with “Death to Israel” painted on their nose-cones.
The organization sponsoring Tlaib and Omar is MIFTAH, an anti-Israel propaganda group founded by Haneen Ashrawi. The group organizes junkets to introduce U.S. politicians to the region and their propaganda. For example, in 2016 Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) was caught calling Jews “termites” in a speech a few months after one such trip to Israel with MIFTAH. You may remember Johnson as the congressman who voiced his concern that Guam may tip over and capsize if it becomes over-populated.
So, if the outrage is over Israel denying entry to members of Congress, that argument can quickly be overruled because of the intentions of the politicians who were denied. Tlaib made her intention perfectly clear in a tweet Friday. When she was granted entry to visit her elderly grandmother – the reason for her trip, she claimed – Rep. Tlaib said nevermind.
Rashida Tlaib ✔ @RashidaTlaib Silencing me & treating me like a criminal is not what she wants for me. It would kill a piece of me. I have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in--fighting against racism, oppression & injustice. https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1162341203406401536 …
Rashida Tlaib:
When I won, it gave the Palestinian people hope that someone will finally speak the truth about the inhumane conditions. I can't allow the State of Israel to take away that light by humiliating me & use my love for my sity to bow down to their oppressive & racist policies. https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1162333169846247425 …
56.6K 8:52 AM - Aug 16, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 35.8K people are talking about this A visit to see Grandma was just an excuse and it looks like Tlaib hates Israel more than she loves her elderly grandparent. It’s all about Palestine, not America with her. Tlaib is milking it for all the political capital she can get with her supporters. Rep. Omar made the same claims as Tlaib – they were going to witness “the occupation” of Palestine.
Ilhan Omar ✔ @IlhanMN Let’s be clear: the goal of our trip was to witness firsthand what is happening on the ground in Palestine and hear from stakeholders —our job as Members of Congress.
But since we were unable to fulfill our role as legislators, I am sharing what we would have seen. (THREAD)
54.1K 1:18 PM - Aug 16, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 27K people are talking about this I agree with Ed’s conclusion that ended his article Friday: “Tlaib’s a lying provocateur, who’s now been caught in her own trap.” Tlaib was caught and exposed herself and her intentions. Sleepy Joe Biden allowed himself to get involved because he’s in a campaign now.
I’ll end with this – we’ve been pondering the memory lapses of good old Joe on the campaign trail and enjoying the entertainment of his verbal gaffes, too. Well, he did it again. Friday night during a fundraiser in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware he got confused about in which state he delivered remarks recently attacking President Trump on his Charlottesville statement.
At one point, the former vice president referenced his own speech in Burlington, Iowa last week when he accused the president of “fueling a literal carnage” in the country with his rhetoric, but initially said the speech took place in “Burlington, Vermont.” Biden immediately corrected himself to say he delivered those remarks in “Burlington, Iowa.”
Not normally a big deal with most candidates and he quickly corrected himself according to the pool report but Joe is a known gaffe machine. It’s just further proof that he can’t speak without gaffes, even the most simple of facts get mixed-up. And, if I were Biden, I wouldn’t be reminding everyone within earshot that the whole basis of his campaign is based on a trope. Despite what Biden and fellow Democrats say, President Trump did denounce white supremacists and the neo-Nazis in the Charlottesville march.
We kept out then Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, because it was discovered that he was a Nazi.
Groper has processing problems. The anti-America haters/troublemakers should be removed from Congress. Serial liars have no business in the government of a free republic.
Austrian President Kurt Waldheim
Yes, but hr was ALSO Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981.
Yes a little inconvenient "fact" the Left likes to forget.
Agreed, serial liars and enemies of our republic have no business in our government...and should be removed!
if we toss in the regular old=fashioned corruptoids...
we will be able to clean out about 90 percent of WashDC!?
smile smile
Hercules clearned out the Aegean Stables...
Benny is an annoying little batstard but he is a smart annoying little bastard.
Fixed it for you. It looked like your heart was in the right place, but your Christian spell checker was working overtime.
“””””””I’d say if he selects Hillary as his running mate, he has an excellent chance. “””””””””””””
I don’t know why people keep pretending hillary has even a remote chance of ever running for office again.
President Trump now has all the goods on her and he would bury her in a second.
Not only that, but the organization literally promotes the blood libel myth(ie that Jews use child blood to make Matzo).
One thiord of UN files on the Holocaust [interviews with Holocaust survivors] disappeared while Waldheim was Secretary General of the UN.
Pray for Trump and the USSS.
Pray HARD!
Strange, I thought you were elected to represent U.S. AMERICAN citizens.
You NAILED it there.
Haneen Ashrawi: yet another Pali broad that looks like an ugly man. Pals are possibly among the most homely people of the entire species
Haneen Ashrawi
“...Pallies are possibly among the most homely people of the entire species.”
Inbreeding and inner ugliness might explain that.
OMAR AND TLAIB ARE TWO TYPICAL TROUBLE MAKING MUSLIMS WHO HAVE NEVER ASSIMILATED NOR EVER WILL. THEY ARE A PRIME EXAMPLE OF BRAINWASHING THEY RECEIVE BEGINNING AT AGE 4 THROUGH AGE 10. THEIR MINDS ARE SO TWISTED THEY ARE HOPELESS.
She represents Hamas in the US House of Representatives.
Of course there is an exception for officials with Hussein as their middle name. Robinette too, should he be elected.
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