Category: Rashida Tlaib

Rep. Rashida Tlaib Belongs to Democratic Socialists of America – Which Endorses Murder of Jews; The ties that bind.

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The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) was already pretty explicit in its support for killing Jews after Oct 7. A DSA founder, Maurice Isserman, resigned after that “to protest the DSA leadership’s politically and morally bankrupt response to the horrific Hamas October 7 anti-Jewish pogrom.”

And it got worse from there.

The DSA pushed out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez for being insufficiently anti-Israel, and Rep. Jamal Bowman had to beg to be let back in. Both AOC and Bowman are militantly anti-Israel, so this was up there with the KKK and the Nation of Islam kicking out members for not being racist enough.

Over the summer, DSA Palestine argued that, “One could (and should) very well argue that in a settler colonial context there are no such things as ‘civilians’, but disregarding that even, it’s total folly to honestly compare settlers perpetrating pogroms to resistance groups deploying violence to liberate themselves.”

Translated from academese gibberish that meant that Jews were not legitimately civilians and that Hamas was fundamentally more justified in killing Jewish civilians than Jews were in defending themselves.

The DSA’s Marxist (literally) Red Star Caucus was even more blunt with a post headlined, “We Do Not Condemn Hamas, and Neither Should You.” The post argued that, “Hamas is at the center of the popular front for resistance, all major parties in the resistance are aligned with it, and all of our enemies (the US and Israel) are against Israel." There is no way to oppose Hamas—or any other element of the popular front—without standing in stark opposition to the entire resistance movement.”

Now the DSA’s National site has decided to dip a toe in the terrorist pool, going beyond the usual selective bias, critiques of Israel, and hysterical attacks, while pretending that the Arab Muslim settlers who call themselves 'Palestinians' are just a mass of unarmed civilians.

Titled, ‘Why Palestinians Engage in Armed Struggle’, when you get past the lies and distorted history, eventually gets to the point.

“The military capacity of Gaza’s guerilla factions has demonstrated itself to be a singularly powerful force at reuniting Palestinians around the possibilities of a military path to liberation. Despite the ongoing genocide, support for armed resistance as a tactic has remained high since October 7th.”

The article makes it clear that Hamas is a part of these “factions” and then praises the “military capacity of these guerilla factions”, celebrates assorted Hamas victories, and claims that “armed struggle is one of the only available methods of struggle that remains for the Palestinian people.”

The DSA cautions that the article endorsing terrorism against Jews may or may not be its view. “Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of DSA.”

Suffice it to say that the DSA is okay with promoting terrorism and with maintaining strategic ambiguity about whether it supports killing Jews.

This is significant because multiple local, state, and federal elected officials affiliate with the DSA.

While the DSA ousted AOC, and Rep. Cori Bush and Rep. Bowman lost races that the Left vocally blamed on the Jews, Rep. Rashida Tlaib is affiliated with the DSA, as well as multiple local officials including Sen. Julia Salazar of New York, Sen. Omar Fateh in Minnesota, Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton in Delaware, Rep. Abraham Aiyash in Dearborn, Michigan (some of whom were already covered in the Freedom Center’s Election Jihad report).

And this is significant because while Rep. Tlaib’s views are obvious, her affiliation with a radical organization that supports Islamic terrorism and the murder of Jews provides a hard and clear linkage to terrorism.

Time To Expel Terrorist-Supporting Rashida Tlaib From Congress Disqualifying behavior.

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Rashida Tlaib (D-Khan Younis) was one of only 10 House members who refused to join the rest in condemning the atrocities carried out by Hamas on October 7. Instead, apparently unmoved by reports of child killings, mass rape, torture, mutilation and murder, Tlaib has continued to associate with Hamas-linked supporters, including six of her main fundraisers who have close ties to Hamas. Tlaib is also part of a hidden Facebook group — the Palestinian-American Congress — that has praised the jihadists who kidnapped and killed hundreds of civilians, including at least 33 Americans, on October 7. The founder of the group is Maher Abdel-Qader, who has referred to Israelis as “not real Jews” and questioned whether the Holocaust really happened.

The Facebook group, which Tlaib joined six years ago, has proudly posted several images of Hamas fighters following the terror group’s assault on October 7 that left at least 1,200 dead across southern Israel.

Now Tlaib has just addressed an anti-Israel conference put on by people connected to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a group which, like Hamas, has been designated by the American government as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” (FTO). She was the surprise guest speaker, and star attraction, at the “People’s Conference for Palestine” held in Detroit on May 25. The organizers of that conference, and many of her fellow speakers, have been linked to the PFLP. Tlaib apparently had no qualms about appearing with them.

Others, however, think that her appearance at that recent PFLP-linked event was the last straw, and that Tlaib ought to be expelled from Congress for her close and unrepentant association with operatives linked to both-Hamas and PFLP. More on her possible expulsions, now being pushed by Congressman Mike Lawler (R.-NY), can be found here: “Lawler: Remove Rashida Tlaib from Congress for Speech at Conference Linked to Terror Group,” by Elizabeth Weibel, Breitbart, 

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) called for Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) to be “removed from Congress” over a speech she gave at an anti-Israel conference that was linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).

Tlaib gave a speech at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, Michigan, on Saturday. The event that Tlaib spoke at the featured speakers event who were linked to the PFLP.

Lawler wrote in a post on X that Tlaib “should be removed from Congress immediately.”

“Associating with and speaking before groups that are funded by US designated terrorist organizations is disqualifying,” Lawler added.

Sana’ Daqqah, who was married to PFLP terrorist Walid Daqqah, was the keynote speaker at the conference. Another speaker was Wisam Rafeedie, an activist with ties to the PFLP, according to the National Review…

A November 2023 report from the Canary Mission found that Tlaib was connected to six activists linked to Hamas, the U.S.-designated terror organization behind the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel that left 1,200 people dead and more than 200 people taken hostage.

Canary Mission can confirm that at least 6 Hamas-linked activists fundraised for Tlaib during her 2018 Congressional campaign: Mwafaq Jabara, Sheikh Muhammad Tanani, Huwaida Arraf, Salah Sarsour, Rafeeq Jaber and Abdelbaset Hamayel….

In her first Congressional campaign, in 2018, Tlaib relied heavily for fundraising on those six “Hamas-linked activists” named by the pro-Israel group Canary Mission. She has not severed her ties to those fundraisers even after the Hamas atrocities of October 7. 2023.

Since the October 7 atrocities by Hamas, Rashida Tlaib has doubled down on her support for the terrorist group. She was one of only ten members of the House of Representatives who refused to condemn Hamas for those acts. She still refuses to express even mild displeasure with the group. Nor has she tried to distance herself from the PFLP, like Hamas a “US-designated foreign terrorist organization,” instead making a surprise appearance at their recent Detroit conference as their star speaker, at her pugnacious ease among so many members and supporters of the PFLP.

If a resolution on her removal from Congress is voted on, every Republican representative, and a great many Democrats too, should be willing to approve it, because Tlaib has gone far beyond even her Squad colleague Ilhan Omar in her brazen connections to people with deep links to both terror groups, Hamas and the PFLP. There will be no downside to voting against this tremendously unpleasant and wildly disliked Congresswoman. Even fellow “Progressives” try to distance themselves from her over-the-top remarks, including her frequent denunciations of her own government.. Go to it, Congressman Lawler. Overwhelmingly, the electorate will support you.