(Haaretz) Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib said she “loves the fact” that her “Palestinian ancestors” were part an attempt “to create a safe haven for Jews” after the Holocaust, although the role “was forced on them” and took place “in a way that took their human dignity away.”
In an interview on the Skullduggery podcast, Tlaib also harshly condemned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “coming from a place of division and inequality” and refusing to acknowledge her grandmother, who lives in the West Bank, as his equal. The Michigan Democrat is the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress.
Having grown up in an African-American neighborhood of Detroit, Tlaib said she viewed Netanyahu and his government through the lens of someone who understood “inequality and oppression.”
