Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib call on fellow members of the US Congress to visit Israel and see 'the cruel reality of the occupation'
US Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar react as they discuss travel restrictions to Palestine and Israel during a news conference at the Minnesota State Capitol Building in St Paul, Minnesota, August 19, 2019.
"I would encourage my colleagues to visit, meet with the people we were going to meet with, see the things we were going to see, hear the stories we were going to hear," Omar said at a news conference. "We cannot let Trump and Netanyahu succeed in hiding the cruel reality of the occupation from us." But Tlaib got emotional as she told how her "Sitty" — an Arabic term of endearment for one's grandmother that's spelled different ways in English — urged her during a tearful late-night family phone call not to come under what they considered such humiliating circumstances.
Barkawi said she had a chance to visit her father's village in the West Bank near Nablus during a family visit to Jordan about 25 years ago, but her parents decided not to risk crossing the border. Supporters say the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is a nonviolent way of protesting Israel's military rule over Palestinians, but Israel says it aims to delegitimise the state and eventually wipe it off the map.
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