The
racist president smeared his feces again. “It would show great weakness if
Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep.Tlaib to visit. They hate Israel & all
Jewish people, & there is nothing that can be said or done to change their
minds. Minnesota and Michigan will have a hard time putting them back in
office. They are a disgrace!”
A
disgrace? Why? For not “going back where they came from”?
Yes,
and it would show a great moral weakness if the Israeli far Right leadership share
the fascist racism and bigotry of the American Tangerine Tyrant.
Netanyahu’s
regime took the bait and slammed the door on the Black and Muslim American
Representatives.
Senator Bernie Sanders echoed my thoughts. “If Israel doesn’t want members of the United States Congress to visit their country…maybe they can respectfully decline the billions of dollars that we give to Israel.”
Senator Bernie Sanders echoed my thoughts. “If Israel doesn’t want members of the United States Congress to visit their country…maybe they can respectfully decline the billions of dollars that we give to Israel.”
Israel’s
Haaretz news outlet also condemned the affront to decency. “The wannabe
authoritarian tag-team of Netanyahu and Trump has committed a reckless, racist,
contemptible act.”
From his dark corner of Hell, Adolf gloats triumphantly
“Wunderbar, Bibi! Just what I would have done!” Satan smiles as he serves the
Nazi white nationalist his ice-water. "Authoritarian nationalism triumphs again!"
It
comes down to this. The Democratic Representatives were “punished” for being hated by Trump.
They
were condemned by corporate media and demonized by white nationalists as
“anti-Semites” for having the gall to criticize AIPAC and the Israeli
government. Their support of #BDS only further infuriated the radical Right.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement “works to end international
support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians and pressure Israel to comply
with international law.”
In
an irony of arrogance, the act of bigotry and marginalization of political
opposition by the Trump/Netanyahu regimes just gave #BDS its biggest boost by
far. The Netanyahu regime’s flagrant intolerance is highlighted, showing the
world their authoritarian essence, as they serve as minions and enforcers of
Trump’s hate.
The
Big MAGAt dumped a pile of stinking crap, and Netanyahu stepped right into it.
Now his smeared shoes leave stains and odors like the rest of the MAGA Cult.
Speaker
Pelosi sensibly responded, “Israel’s denial of entry to Congresswomen Tlaib and
Omar is a sign of weakness, and beneath the dignity of the great State of
Israel. The President’s statements about the Congresswomen are a sign of
ignorance and disrespect, and beneath the dignity of the Office of the
President.”
Even
AIPAC needed to implement damage control:
“We
disagree with Reps. Omar and Tlaib’s support for the anti-Israel and anti-peace
BDS movement, along with Rep. Tlaib’s calls for a one-state solution. We also
believe every member of Congress should be able to visit and experience our
democratic ally Israel firsthand.”
Face it. Neither
country presents a good face for democracy. But I’ll allow the possibility that
good intentions were embedded into AIPAC’s frantic response to minimize
alienation of the Democratic Party and millions of Americans.
Representative
Omar spoke out for real democratic values in her statement:
"It is an affront that Israeli Prime Minister
Netanyahu, under pressure from President Trump, would deny entry to
representatives of the U.S. government. Trump's Muslim ban is what Israel is
implementing, this time against two duly elected Members of Congress.
As
a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, it is my job to conduct
oversight of foreign aid from the United States of America and to legislate on
human rights practices around the world. The irony of the 'only democracy' in
the Middle East making such a decision is that it is both an insult to
democratic values and a chilling response to a visit by government officials
from an allied nation."
Israeli
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri offered permission for Representative Tlaib
of Michigan to enter the country on “humanitarian grounds” to visit her
grandmother, after she "committed to accept all the demands of Israel to
respect the restrictions imposed on her in the visit, and she also promised not
to advance boycotts against Israel during her visit."
The
conditions and demands mean she is still banned from visiting as a member of
the US Congress.
Representative
Tlaib didn’t take the bait. "I have decided that visiting my grandmother under
these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in--fighting
against racism, oppression & injustice.... 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."
Meanwhile,
unmentioned by Republican bigots and their white nationalist leader in the
White House, American Jews of conscience were confronting their extreme far
Right evil first hand:
~~~
Video
captures horrifying moment prison officer drove into Jewish activists
protesting ICE
Jewish
activists and allies with Never Again Action were staging a peaceful
protest outside a Rhode Island detention facility that jails immigrants for
the federal government when a man in a truck, reportedly a corrections
officer at the facility, drove straight into the group and sent several to the
hospital. “Local police officers working at the protest did not intervene,” activists
told The Washington Post, “and the driver eventually walked into the
prison after other guards pepper-sprayed the protesters.”
As
dozens of activists sat peacefully on the street outside the Wyatt
Detention Facility, a driver sped up into the crowd while blasting his
horn. Activists screamed as others chanted, “Shame!” But the driver only
kept pushing into activists, continuing to drive several feet even as they
were clearly standing right in front of the truck. “The whole world is watching!”
others chanted. “5 people went to the hospital,” Never Again
Action said in a tweet, “including 2 who were hit by the truck.”
...Never
Again Action’s Amy Anthony told Newsweek, “We have
confirmed that the person driving the truck is a correctional officer who works
for the detention facility. The driver was in his uniform when he hit the protesters. His rank and name were embroidered on his shirt and he was wearing
a badge at the time."
~~~
But
it’s not all bad news.
At
least there are still many Americans free to visit Israel, unhindered by
Netanyahu or Trump and his racist cult. These privileged Americans would be the tiki torch wielding Trump supporters who chanted, “JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US!”
They
get a pass, for they have gained presidential approval as “very fine people”.
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