U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) speaks to the crowd while hosting a town hall meeting with leadership from various voting rights organizations in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, U.S. July 20, 2019. REUTERS/Brittany Greeson Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) accused CNN’s Jake Tapper of comparing Palestinians to white nationalists in an August 4 “State of the Union” segment, which Tapper denied.
On August 3, a gunman shot and killed 22 people and injured 22 others at a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Tex. The gunman reportedly had a manifesto expressing white nationalist sentiments.
Tapper argued during the August 4 segment, “You hear conservatives all the time – rightly so in my opinion – talk about the tone set in the Arab world, Palestinian leaders and the way they talk about Israelis… no direct link necessarily between what the leader says and the violence against some poor Israeli girl in a pizzeria, but the idea that you’re validating this hatred.”
He later said, “You can’t compare the ideology of Hamas with anything, but either tone matters or it doesn’t.”
This is the height of unethical journalism @jaketapper – you invoke Palestinians & Arabs as a comparison to white nationalist violence in the US?
This is blatant anti-Arab bigotry & Islamophobia. @CNN needs to take action. https://t.co/Q1bB20tD8l
— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) August 5, 2019
Tlaib responded to Tapper’s segment in an August 5 tweet that read, “Comparing Palestinian human rights advocates to terrorist white nationalists is fundamentally a lie. Palestinians want equality, human dignity & to stop the imprisonment of children. White supremacy is calling for the *domination* of one race w/ the use of violence.”
Comparing Palestinian human rights advocates to terrorist white nationalists is fundamentally a lie. Palestinians want equality, human dignity & to stop the imprisonment of children ⬇️.
White supremacy is calling for the *domination* of one race w/ the use of violence. https://t.co/vSPTxIZBTq pic.twitter.com/zHQbn1hmEr
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) August 5, 2019
Tapper pushed back against Tlaib’s characterization of his words, saying that “those who believe Palestinian leaders bear responsibility for the incitement of terrorism cannot then let U.S. leaders off the hook and act as if words don’t matter.”
You're 100% right, Congresswoman @RashidaTlaib, it's a lie. Because I never said that. What I said was those who believe Palestinian leaders bear responsibility for the incitement of terrorism cannot then let US leaders off the hook and act as if words don't matter. https://t.co/UoC0l5778t
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 5, 2019
Jerusalem Post Senior Editor Lahav Harkov called Tlaib’s tweet “very telling,” noting that Tapper “talked about a Palestinian suicide bomber (the girl in a pizza place that he mentions is one of 15 killed that day) and, more generally, Palestinians who incite to violence. Is that what she thinks ‘human rights advocates’ do?”
A very telling comment from Tlaib.@jaketapper talked about a Palestinian suicide bomber (the girl in a pizza place that he mentions is one of 15 killed that day) and, more generally, Palestinians who incite to violence.
Is that what she thinks “human rights advocates” do? https://t.co/1OadBiuqDi
— Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) August 5, 2019
Journal columnist Ariel Sobel tweeted, “Do you think that Hamas members are human rights advocates? Because that’s who Jake Tapper mentioned.”
https://twitter.com/arielsobelle/status/1158436262283341832
Zionist speaker and activist Hen Mazzig tweeted in response to Tlaib, “Comparing Palestinian terrorists that killed innocent Israeli teenage girl (among other civilians) to human rights advocates is exactly your problem, congresswoman.”
Comparing Palestinian terrorists that killed innocent Israeli teenage girl (among other civilians) to human rights advocates is exactly your problem, congresswoman. https://t.co/ecV6MKujWl
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) August 5, 2019
Odd you should mention *domination* of one race, cause the terrorist @jaketapper mentioned is Hamas terrorist. Hamas’s covenant literally reads (Article 7): “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems kill the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees…” https://t.co/ecV6MKujWl
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) August 5, 2019
“…The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.""
"Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious." [Introduction, Page 2]— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) August 5, 2019
Others weighed in:
Ethnic cleansing of Hebron’s Jews…Hmm sure looks like Arabs calling for racial domination of the entire area through the use of violence doesn’t it Rashida? pic.twitter.com/tkYPG7X09r
— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) August 5, 2019
Really? This is 13 year old Hallel Yaffa Ariel. Murdered by a Palestinian terrorist.
Your intentional deceit is sickening @rashidatlaib. It harms Israelis and Palestinians and reduces opportunities for peace. pic.twitter.com/B8lyZoZuL8
— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) August 5, 2019
That depends on your definition of Palestinian 'human rights' advocates. Are you referring to Hamas, the PA inspired terrorists who murder Israelis, or those advocating BDS (ie, a racist movement calling for the destruction of Israel)?
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) August 5, 2019
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