Michigan Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib slandered Israel in an interview yesterday with Amy Goodman on her show Democracy Now! by falsely claiming Israel refuses to give COVID-19 vaccines to Palestinians and calling Israel "a racist state.":
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 is an equal human being who deserves to live, deserves to be able to be protected by this global pandemic.
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 — you can put a settlement wherever you want, but on the other side of that wall is a farm community, a village where my grandmother lives. And many of our various family members and others that I know are trying to live a good life, a free life, free from these racist policies that deny them access to public health.
This is, of course, a lie. In point of fact, Israel offered to share its vaccines with the Palestinian Authority who have jurisdiction over health care under the terms of the Oslo Accords and they have refused Israel's help.
Tlaib, who notably refused to endorse Joe Biden during the presidential campaign, is doing this to inflame not only hatred of Israel, but hatred of Jews at large. She must be denounced with the same passion with which white supremacists are denounced when they engage in anti-Semitism.
Unfortunately, I do not believe the Democratic Party is prepared to do so among their own ranks. If you're only pointing out anti-Semitism when your political rivals are engaged in it then you are not really concerned about anti-Semitism.
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