(Free Beacon) Congresswoman-elect Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) defended former CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill’s remarks defending Palestinian violence against Israel at a recent United Nations speech, tweeting that “calling out the oppressive policies in Israel” was not anti-Semitic.
CNN dropped Hill from his contract on Thursday after he spoke at the U.N.’s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People a day earlier. A fervent critic of Israel, he used the Palestinian nationalist phrase calling for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea,” which suggests the elimination of the state of Israel which sits between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, and said while peace should be prioritized, “we must not romanticize or fetishize it.”
“Tactics otherwise divergent from Dr. King or Gandhi were equally important to preserving safety and attaining freedom,” he said.
