Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib Add Fuel To The Fire: Suggest Israel Is Not An “Ally,” Not A “Democracy”

Needless to say, after being banned from Israel over support for the anti-Israel BDS movement, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib weren’t too happy. 

Instead of taking the decision in stride and moving forward or reconsidering their actions, though, Omar and Tlaib stayed true to themselves and attacked Israel over the decision!

Omar and Tlaib took things farther in their hatred of Israel by implying that Israel is not an American ally and not a democracy!

Ilhan Omar said,

“We give Israel more than $3 million in aid every year. This is predicated on them being an important ally in the region, and the only democracy in the Middle East. But, denying a visit to duly elected members of Congress is not consistent with being an ally,”

“The decision to ban me and my colleague, the first two Muslim-American women elected to Congress, is nothing less than an attempt by an ally of the United States to suppress our ability to do our jobs as elected officials.”

To which Tlaib followed up with an anecdote in which she describes Israel as “dehumanizing” Americans,

“As a young girl visiting Palestine to see my grandparents and extended family, I watched as my mother had to go through dehumanizing checkpoints – even though she was a United States citizen and a proud American. She said I’m her dream manifested. I’m her free bird so why would I come back and be caged and bow down?”

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