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Tlaib suggests boycotting Maher show after he calls anti-Israel boycott movement 'BS purity test'
The Hill ^ | 8/18/19 | JUSTIN WISE

Posted on 08/18/2019 10:11:12 AM PDT by Libloather

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) late Saturday suggested that viewers should boycott comedian Bill Maher’s late-night HBO show over his vehement criticism of the international movement to boycott Israel.

Tlaib, who was denied entry to Israel last week over her support of the movement, said that she was "tired of folks discrediting a form of speech that is centered on equality and freedom."

“This is exactly how they tried to discredit & stop the boycott to stand up against the apartheid in S. Africa,” Tlaib added. “It didn't work then and it won't now.”

**SNIP**

Omar and Tlaib, who became the first Muslim women sworn into Congress in January, have been outspoken critics of Israel during their time in office. The two have also supported the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, voting against a congressional resolution to condemn it earlier this year.

Maher on Friday voiced strong criticism of the BDS movement on HBO's "Real Time," calling it a "a bullshit purity test by people who want to appear woke but actually slept through history class."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


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To: adorno

Handing out boycotts. . . .Guess that is why she was elected by her district. They have got to love her for this since things are going so well there that there is nothing to really worry about, ... in the Trump economy that obozo has claimed credit for being the architect and builder over an 8 year foundation.


41 posted on 08/18/2019 11:26:49 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: Spok

Maher is an Irish name; I believe he’s said he was raised Catholic, the reason he decided he was too smart for it and became an atheist.


42 posted on 08/18/2019 11:36:22 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: Libloather

“This is exactly how they tried to discredit & stop the boycott to stand up against the apartheid in S. Africa...” And look how well it’s turned out in S. Africa, especially for the white citizens, the prime target for the overthrow. It’s no wonder SA is her model for change.


43 posted on 08/18/2019 11:37:59 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: Libloather

Old Carp Face Tlaib needs a nice hot cuppa get the hell outta my country.


44 posted on 08/18/2019 11:39:28 AM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: DPMD

Tlaib is a typical worshiper of the Muslim terroristic blood cult. Left to her own devices, she would kill or enslave Christians, Jews and all others who don’t submit.


45 posted on 08/18/2019 11:55:07 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Libloather

Good luck, she has nothing but het giant mouth going for her.


46 posted on 08/18/2019 12:32:03 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: cdcdawg
Stir the pot!

Just when it starts to calm down, Trump tweets some red meat for them to start fighting over again.

47 posted on 08/18/2019 2:04:00 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

I just wish it didn’t always have to be Trump doing it. If any other elected Republican would smack them around on a regular basis even a little, it would help.


48 posted on 08/18/2019 3:00:57 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Fact: Dogs can extract more info from smelling a pile of $h!t than humans can from viewing CNN)
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To: cdcdawg
If any other elected Republican would smack them around on a regular basis even a little, it would help

Yes, but they can tell their donors - hey it isn't me that's got the voters all riled up about cutting regulations and building a boarder wall and stopping illegal immigration and not squandering treasure buying arms that we expend bootlessly blowing up deserts around the world so that we have to pour more money into the MIC. It's that horrid orange man that was elected by the deplorables that are over-running the country and ruining a wonderful global order.

49 posted on 08/18/2019 3:32:07 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: DPMD

His father stopped going to church and bringing kids to church when he was 12 or 13. That’s when he found out his mom was Jewish.


50 posted on 08/18/2019 5:39:22 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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Yes, of course, boycott him.

52 posted on 08/19/2019 7:12:11 AM PDT by SJackson (If youÂ’re wondering whatÂ’s wrong with capitalism, itÂ’s made in Hong Kong, B. Sanders, when in Rus)
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To: gcparent

Then he would be Jewish, deriving through the mother. Good call.


53 posted on 08/19/2019 9:55:14 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: Libloather

That would require Boycotting HBO and it’s parent Company.

Maher’s show is not supported by advertising dollars.


54 posted on 08/19/2019 9:58:26 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Spok

Maher was Irish Catholic until he was a teenager. He denies he is an atheist, but refers to himself as agnostic. His mother was a Jew who’s family was from Hungary.

He was a drug dealer at Cornell.


55 posted on 08/19/2019 12:02:01 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: DPMD

Good Call? I think the Jewish rules are silly.you should be Jewish because you identify with being jewish, because you embrace judiasm, not because of who gave birth to you. That’s why we Christians have baptism.


56 posted on 08/19/2019 1:10:52 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: gcparent

Easy now, mad dog; I only meant it was adroit of you to have known that he was born of a Jewish mother, and, according to that religion’s tenets, he was born Jewish. I don’t really want to know your opinion of Judaism and wasn’t offering mine.


57 posted on 08/20/2019 11:09:42 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: DPMD

I politely state my opinion and you call me a mad dog????


58 posted on 08/20/2019 1:16:44 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: gcparent

Yep. You chose to misread mine, so, yep.


59 posted on 08/21/2019 10:46:06 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: DPMD

Go away. I don’t care about you or your opinions or your phony compliments.


60 posted on 08/21/2019 3:51:15 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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