WASHINGTON (JNS) — Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) accused Israel of being “racist” for not distributing coronavirus vaccines to the Palestinian territories, despite the fact that the West Bank is under the control of the Palestinian Authority, and the Gaza Strip is run by the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Hamas.
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“I think it’s really important to understand Israel is a racist state and that they would deny Palestinians, like my grandmother, access to a vaccine, that they don’t believe that she’s an equal human being that deserves to live, deserves to be able to be protected by this global pandemic,” Tlaib told Democracy Now in an interview on Tuesday. “And it’s really hard to watch as this apartheid state continues to deny their own neighbors, the people that breathe the same air they breathe, that live in the same communities.”
Tlaib said that Israel “has no intention” of helping Palestinian Arabs overcome the coronavirus pandemic, and that the United States is “enabling” them to do so.
“They have the power to distribute that vaccine to the Palestinian people, their own neighbors, again, feet away from where they live, many of which, again, could expose them and their family and it doesn’t,” she said. “If anything, it just reiterates what the Palestinian people and even human-rights groups have been telling us, is that this is an apartheid state.”
Rep. @RashidaTlaib on Israel not vaccinating Palestinians:
“It’s really important to understand that Israel is a racist state, in that they would deny Palestinians like my grandmother access to a vaccine, that they don’t believe she’s an equal human being who deserves to live." pic.twitter.com/vPCeXjdqrZ
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 19, 2021
Since she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018, Tlaib has spouted anti-Jewish rhetoric and supported the BDS movement against Israel. She was re-elected to office in the Nov. 3 elections.
Isn’t the PA responsible for public health in the West Bank and Gaza?
Did she forget to mention these are the same “innocent neighbors” that launch rockets and commit continuous terrorism. And want to take over your house.
Will a single democrat condemn this Jew haters remarks?
I am an older man, and I can truthfully say, that I have never in my life seen such a meeskeit.
Don’t take the witch’s bait
She is doing what she does best
Useless Aipac (JASON KOPPEL) and their hack jobniks cant stop this anti semite even Adelson divested from aipac once he realized its a front for the Democratic party
What has she done to bring to her grandmother medicine?
Does she expect Israel to cross into her family village to give them medicine that the PA rejected?
Why doesn’t her family come to Israel for the vaccination.
Hypocrisy is a dangerous tool.
The BIG LIE has a way of destroying the speaker. What started in 1932 in Munich was destroyed in 1945 . At a terrible cost .
Goebbel was hung in Nuremberg.
Trump lost in 2020, damaging all the good that he accomplished by using the BIG LIE.
If Rashida Talib wants to benefit her constituents, she should focus on them and not on the BIG LIE.
Did all the people in her district in Michigan get the vaccine? She should worry about the people who put her in office.
Palestinians with israeli citizenship are getting. The PA announced weeks ago that they did not request vaccine from Israel because they beleive they sourced it elsewhere.