Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar call on their congressional colleagues to visit Israel despite the country's initial decision to ban the two of them: “Meet with the people we were going to meet with.”
Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar called on their congressional colleagues to visit Israel despite the country's decision to ban the two of them from visiting this week.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement last week that the congresswomen's itinerary showed"their intent is to hurt Israel" and that he backed a decision by Israel's interior minister to block their entry. They had planned to visit Jerusalem and the West Bank over the weekend as guests of Miftah, a nonprofit Palestinian group that seeks a"sovereign, independent, democratic, tolerant and inclusive Palestinian state, which grants Palestinians their basic rights, preserves their dignity, and enjoys international recognition and respect."
Tlaib, a Palestinian-American who represents Detroit, blamed Netanyanhu for obliging Trump’s request to ban them. Tlaib was later approved by the Israeli government to travel on a"humanitarian visit" to see her family, but ultimately decided not to go after speaking with her grandmother. Tlaib said she struggled with the decision not to go, but decided she couldn’t make the trip until she was a"free, American, United States Congresswoman."
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