'It is not mearly [sic] an antisemitic dog whistle — it's a bullhorn to his white nationalist base,' the progressive Jewish-American group IfNotNow told Newsweek in a statement.
"The president just called around 75% of American Jews ignorant and/or disloyal, which IMO is straightforward antisemitism but if you're in the other 25% your mileage may vary," David Klion, news editor at Jewish Currents, tweeted.in a statement that Trump's remark did not only"play into the antisemitic trope of Jews holding 'dual-loyalty,'" but was"also just wildly disconnected from reality.
Tlaib, who is the child of Palestinian-American immigrants, has family, including her 90-year-old grandmother, living in the West Bank. The Palestinian territory is largely controlled by Israel with a degree of autonomy, and the only way to enter is by traveling through Israel. Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib hold a news conference on August 19 in St. Paul, Minnesota"It was an agonizing and unjust position for Israel to demand that @RepRashida silence her political views as a condition of visiting her sitty in Palestine," the progressive American-Jewish organization Jewish Voice for Peace wrote on Twitter on Tuesday."Instead, she chose freedom at the expense of seeing her grandmother knowing that her freedom gives her life.
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