Rep. Rashida Tlaib said she will not visit her family in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, hours after Israel’s interior ministry granted her request to travel to the territory on humanitarian grounds
Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Friday she will not visit her family in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, hours after Israel’s interior ministry granted her request to travel to the territory on humanitarian grounds.
“When I won, it gave the Palestinian people hope that someone will finally speak the truth about the inhumane conditions. I can't allow the State of Israel to take away that light by humiliating me & use my love for my sity to bow down to their oppressive & racist policies,” Tlaib , referring to her 90-year-old grandmother whom she was expected to spend time with in the West Bank.“Silencing me & treating me like a criminal is not what she wants for me,” Tlaib, a Palestinian-American,. “It would kill a piece of me. I have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in--fighting against racism, oppression & injustice.
The interior ministry approved Tlaib's entry Friday after she committed not to advocate for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS, during her visit. Tlaib and Rep.
Silencing me & treating me like a criminal is not what she wants for me. It would kill a piece of me. I have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in–fighting against racism, oppression & injustice.
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