(Hill) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) slammed CNN’s Jake Tapper for “comparing Palestinian human rights advocates to terrorist white nationalists,” calling it “fundamentally a lie.”
The pushback comes after Tapper, who serves as CNN’s chief Washington correspondent, drew an analogy between the Palestinian movement and white supremacy in the U.S.
“You hear conservatives all the time, rightly so, in my opinion, talk about the tone set by people in the Arab world,” Tapper said Sunday on “State of the Union.”
“[Palestinian] leaders and the way they talk about Israelis, justifying, in the same way you’re doing — no direct link necessarily between what the leader says and the violence to some poor Israeli girl in a pizzeria, but the idea that you’re validating this hatred,” he continued.
