Dem Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “Dehumanization That Happens Continually Under McCarthy’s Leadership” Mimics Netanyahu’s Treatment Of Palestinians

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat of Michigan, blasted Speaker Kevin McCarthy for canceling an event she planned to highlight, the 75th anniversary of the so-called Palestinian Nakba, during an interview with MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin.

MOHYELDIN, MSNBC: Talk to me about how the event ultimately went, just from the fact that Kevin McCarthy blocked the initial one that was supposed to take place on the House side. You got some help from Senator Bernie Sanders in moving the event to the Senate side where McCarthy has no authority to block it. Just walk us through how that played out. And how did the event go?

REP. RASHIDA TLAIB: I mean, it’s typical. We expected, you know, McCarthy and some of the same folks that continue to really block any access to democracy and have various voices, even those that are fighting for reproductive health or those even trying to fight for justice within, you know, holding the Supreme Court accountable. We saw over and over again when Black Lives Matter protesters show up and kind of the aggression and kind of the silencing, intimidation and bullying that happens when we speak up and speak truth to power.

You know, I think, you know, Leader McCarthy forgets before I was a congresswoman. I’m from Detroit. And nothing stops Detroit. And so I kept pushing and pushing until I could find a home for us to be right there in Capitol Hill, like any other American deserves to be heard in the halls of Congress…

And with this, you know, I think, leading with compassion and understanding again to support a real democracy in our country, we all deserve to be able to share our stories and to be able to have space to do that.

Every member of Congress has access to these rooms. And I think Leader McCarthy doesn’t believe someone like me deserves that same access. But we’ll continue to push back against this kind of, I think, attack on our democracy and attack on whole people in the United States that deserve, again, to be heard in the United States Congress.

MOHYELDIN, MSNBC: What do you make of him hosting this event, praising the U.S.-Israel relationship in lieu of what you had planned? I mean, the Israel-U.S. relationship has obviously come under a lot of scrutiny, not just because of the Palestinian issue, but also because of what Israel is undergoing internally, given its own challenges in the judiciary, and with this extreme right-wing government, the most extreme in its history. But at a time when it is coming under that scrutiny, and the U.S. public sentiment is changing towards Israel, Kevin McCarthy seems to be doubling down on that relationship.

REP. RASHIDA TLAIB: Yeah, I mean, you heard it even with his speech. He’s so much in line with the extremism right-wing government of — under Netanyahu’s leadership in Israel in the way they’re even talking about that, you know, both United States and Israel’s birth under inequality. How is that possible when we’re still currently fighting for that form of justice within our — within our own country here? I mean, these are folks that are completely denying the existence of a whole people.

In the United States, I continue to talk about what’s going on with our indigenous people who literally are under attack from environmental injustices, from pipelines to indigenous women disappearing every single day with no justice, with no accountability. You know, the dehumanization that happens continually under McCarthy’s leadership is so mimic to what Netanyahu when he speaks of Palestinian people. It’s an incredibly painful to hear someone say that they want another Nakba, that they don’t want, again, to fully acknowledge the existence of its neighbors, the Palestinian people who have been there generations.

{Matzav.com}