Juliette Kayyem, formerly the highest ranking Arab-American woman in the Obama administration, addressed Rashida Tlaib in a recent op-ed for The Atlantic as Tlaib fends off charges of antisemitism. (Getty CNN screenshot)
Posted on 11/09/2023 6:45:56 AM PST by SJackson
Juliette Kayyem, formerly the highest ranking Arab-American woman in the Obama administration, addressed Rashida Tlaib in a recent op-ed for The Atlantic as Tlaib fends off charges of antisemitism. (Getty CNN screenshot)
Juliette Kayyem, formerly the highest ranking Arab-American woman in the Obama administration, rebuked Rashida Tlaib in an op-ed for The Atlantic as Tlaib fends off charges of antisemitism from political opponents.
Kayyem revealed she had "met Rashida Tlaib in 2009, before she was elected to Congress, when she was a young Palestinian American newly serving in the Michigan House of Representatives." She described Tlaib as a "mesmerizing presence: attentive, sociable, and seemingly fearless."
But in her piece, Kayyem directly responded to Tlaib's controversial support of a pro-Palestinian slogan that is widely seen as a declaration for the elimination of Israel.
"By amplifying a loaded slogan, the Michigan representative isn’t helping anyone’s cause," Kayyem wrote, adding that Tlaib is "amplifying activist rhetoric that, to many ears, casually deploys the language of annihilation."
Kayyem, who is of Lebanese descent and worked in the Obama administration's Department of Homeland Security, argued that Tlaib's comments are especially damaging to Palestinians who are trying to separate themselves from the terrorist organization Hamas, which massacred 1,400 people, many of them civilians, in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
"At a moment when many Palestinians are taking pains to distinguish their cause from that of Hamas—whose actions triggered a brutal Israeli-military response that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza—Tlaib is defending one of the terror group’s preferred tropes," Kayyem wrote of the Palestinian slogan. "That she has a relatively benign interpretation of it is irrelevant."
She continued: "Rather than making reasoned arguments that might win other people over, Tlaib has made herself the story by defending From the river to the sea."
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“Rashida Tlaib”
hate-filled
Lots of people refused to take Adolf Hitler and “Mein Kampf” seriously.
The majority of Democrats hate.
men
capitalism
whites
Jews
Don’t forget Christians.
Juliette Kayyem, formerly the highest ranking Arab-American woman in the Obama administration
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. which is precisely why I don’t beleive a word she says
she’s just employing Taqiya.
I’ll winds are blowing and Obama and his 5th column in the district of cartels is just deploying chaff.
Hate-filled? Indeed
A Hamas-er Terrorist.
I wasn't aware Christians employ Taqiya. Might have saved some from the lions back in Roman times.
Yep, Hitler had a mesmerizing presence as well…
Notice she gives no frank denouncement
or condemnation
of the barbarism
or the use of kids and girls as human sheilds .
None
Zero
Denada
No refutation of the college pro Pali demonstrations across our nation
No calls for the pro Pali demonstrations across our nation to stand down, shut up and go home.
None
Zilch
Nothing.
No, she issues vauge “rebuff” against a single person who she probably just thinks of as a political martyr anyways
a political suicide bomber
Spit.
wasn’t aware Christians employ Taqiya
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You are an utter fool if you beleive for one second
Mr.” If ill winds blow I will stand with islam” Obama had a single authentic Christian in his administration.
Arab-American Obama official rebukes Tlaib for saying the quiet part out loud
I hope for her sake that she is a true Christian, but there are many who take the name “Christian” whom Christ will cast out of heaven for having been CINOS.
HOPEFULLY she is not a cino
But she describes Israel reaction as... “brutal Israeli-military response that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza”.
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