Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib faced mockery and criticism on Twitter after she issued a Hanukkah message to a far-left Jewish anti-Zionist group.
In a message to If Not Now Detroit, Tlaib said, “Your 2020 platform calling for every public official to commit to defunding the occupation in falastin and fighting antisemitism and white nationalism is one that I can support very strongly.”
“Happy early Hanukkah and thank you from the bottom of my heart … also for my grandmother,” she added, speaking of her relative who lives in the West Bank.
Tlaib also published a generic greeting on her official Twitter account, saying, “#HappyHanukkah to all my Jewish friends and neighbors across #13thDistrictStrong and around the world. Wishing you light, love, and blessings as you celebrate the Festival of Lights.”
Many of those who responded to Tlaib found her comments ironic, as Chanukkah in fact celebrates the Jews regaining their independence and sovereignty over Eretz Yisrael, which Tlaib renamed “falastin.”
“This is gross, why can’t she just wish us happy Hanukkah?” said a video by the Israel Advocacy Movement. “Here she is hijacking a Jewish festival to attack Jews.”
“And here’s the irony of it all: Hanukkah actually celebrates Jews fighting off a foreign army that was occupying Judea,” the video added. “Rashida’s celebrating Jewish independence in Judea by describing the Jews that live there as occupiers.”
Public affairs and strategic consultant Lenny Ben-David tweeted, “Thank you Rep Tlaib. You may be aware that your grandmother lives in the Beit Ur village where the Jewish liberation battle by the Maccabees from Modiin/Beit Horon began in 167 BCE. Ground zero for the Jewish #Hanukkah holiday.”
Seth Mandel, editor of The Washington Examiner, expressed anger toward the congresswoman, tweeting, “At first I honestly couldn’t believe this was real. As horrible as Rashida Tlaib obviously is, could she possibly be this rotten, this bigoted?”
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I’m not sure why people are so upset or surprised.
She is an anti-Semite sending a tweet to a bunch of other (ostensibly Jewish) anti Semites.
This is par for the course.
On another note. There is no question that a group like IfNotNow has no business celebrating Chanuka. They certainly would have been on the side of the Misyavnim/Yevonim and I’m sure they don’t light Menora to fulfill the Mitzvah of Pirsumey Nissa .Even so saying that Chanuka was a battle about Jewish sovereignty rather than a battle over keeping Torah and Mitzvos is also co-opting Chanuka for political purposes
Yes, it was terrible that those 2 WHITE Trump supporting supremacists killed those innocent Jews in Jersey City. It’s high time that we start rounding up all the white middle class males in this Country.
Yes, she is that bigoted. She’s a liberal.
We say to a hornet we dont require your sting nor your honey אומרים לצירעה לא מעוקצך ולא מדובשך