Analysis: Republicans are ignoring reality to twist Rep. Tlaib’s Holocaust remarks
Rep. Rashida Tlaib By Amber Phillips Amber Phillips Reporter for The Fix covering Congress, statehouses Email Bio Follow May 13 at 1:36 PM Rep. Rashida Tlaib has said some controversial things. But despite what you hear her Republican critics say, one thing she hasn’t publicly said is that the Holocaust is “calming.”
Here’s what Tlaib said on the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery” published Saturday about a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — and here’s how her political opponents bent her words. The bold is my emphasis added. Rep. Liz Cheney , the No. 3 Republican in the House, issued a statement describing Tlaib’s remarks as “sickening.”
Her sentiment that Palestinians were martyrs for persecuted Jews is not a popular one among supporters of Israel. And Tlaib did frame her comments awkwardly. “Calming” is not a word normally ascribed to any aspect of the Holocaust. She was overtly critical of what happened to Palestinians but prefaces it by saying she has a positive take on it. That’s dissonant.It’s possible that Scalise and Cheney misheard Tlaib.
On Monday morning, Cheney tweeted Tlaib’s comments without their full context with punctuation that erroneously suggests she is sharing Tlaib’s full statement.
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