Dishonest PR Stunt: Tlaib Begged to Visit Elderly Grandmother, Only to Reject Israel’s Approval

2019-08-16
Source: WashingtonGuardian
by: Katie Pavlich

I approved her request as a gesture of goodwill on a humanitarian basis, but it was just a provocative request, aimed at bashing the State of Israel. Apparently her hate for Israel overcomes her love for her grandmother.@realDonaldTrump @RashidaTlaib
— אריה מכלוף דרעי (@ariyederi) August 16, 2019

Anti-semitic Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib just proved (again) her efforts to visit Israel were made in bad faith.

Yesterday after the Israeli government denied Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Tlaib from entering the country due to their advocacy for the BDS movement, Tlaib was offered a humanitarian exception to visit her grandmother.

First, Tlaib framed the situation as an outright ban:

Then, she begged to see her grandmother and argued it may be her last chance.

Source: Townhall

Rashida Tlaib by MPAC National is licensed under Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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