This is what happens when you let in and bring in large numbers of people who have very, very different points of view, some Islamic extremist, and I’d bet most hate Jews and Israel. And these people not only refuse to assimilate, but, demand that America (and other Western nations) change to accommodate them
Opinion: Why Palestinian Americans believe Rep. Rashida Tlaib spoke the truth
“I can’t believe I have to say this,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) said during the debate over the motion to censure her in Congress this week, “but Palestinian people are not disposable. We are human beings just like anyone else.”
Yes, and they voted in a US, UN, and EU designated terrorist group to run Gaza, who then ended all elections, and Palestinians did nothing. They did nothing when Hamas was putting weapons in and under hospitals, schools, and mosques. Germans were people too, as were the Japanese. But, they chose to start a war, and Germans went along with the Nazis. Not all, but, enough. Germans and Japanese changed: Palestinians haven’t in 60+ years
The vote passed Tuesday in the House 234-188. Tlaib powerfully captured the extent to which Palestinians have been silenced and dehumanized in institutions across the United States, even as they are killed and injured thousands of miles away. Indeed, the dehumanization here mirrors the physical destruction in Gaza and the West Bank — and helps to sustain it.
And the House of Representatives saw this — of all times — as the ideal occasion on which to censure the only Palestinian American member of Congress for having expressed the rights and humanity of her battered but still steadfast people.
Yes, the one who has expressed Jew hatred, Israel hatred, and support for Islamic terrorist groups many times. Shove your race card where the sun don’t shine.
Among the reasons cited for censuring Tlaib was a video she shared on social media that included the slogan “from the river to the sea.” The resolution claims this was a “genocidal call.” In fact, variations of the phrase have been used by different parties, including, but not only, Hamas. In Israel’s Likud Party 1977 platform, for example, it was used to express uniquely Israeli sovereignty over all of historical Palestine, a theme also echoed in Israel’s 2018 Jewish Nation-State Law. In today’s context, for Palestinians and others opposing Israel’s system of apartheid, however, the phrase expresses a vision of freedom and equality for all.
There’s some gaslighting. These people will never ask the questions “if Palestinians run the area from the river to the sea will the Jews be allowed to stay? Will they share power?” Hamas says it means kicking all Jews out, turning the area into an Islamic caliphate, and killing the Jews.
Hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans protesting and demonstrating across the country have expressed their affirmation of our common humanity in ways that our institutions and government somehow seem to find impossible. Above all, young people and especially students on campuses — who have bravely shrugged off an orchestrated campaign of intimidation and doxxing intended to silence them — have rallied to the cause of Palestine, which they now recognize is also the cause of justice.
I, like many other Palestinians, have long been ready to embrace our Jewish cousins on these principles, in the name of dismantling apartheid and working toward a democratic and secular state of equal citizens — and in the name of our common humanity, which alone can save us in the end.
Saree Makdisi is a professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA.
Yes, and we’ve seen the calls for the destruction of Israel and Jew hatred, up to killing Jews. We’ve seen them abused and intimidated. Where was Makdisi when Palestinians and other students were attacking Jews at UCLA? Few Palestinians are actually ready to embrace Jews. He also failed to mention that Hamas started this. Why is it that no Arab nation will take in Palestinians? I wish I could find that opinion piece again, but, ask Jordan what happened when they allowed them in decades ago. Well, they started causing all sorts of issues, started having their own military, tried to kill off the Jordanian leaders, and started a civil war. Does the phrase “Black September” mean anything? They also caused a lot problems in Egypt, hence why they do not want them.
And why people like Tlaib should go, along with the others
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