Rashida Tlaib can't hide her anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel, but does she care?

Following her profanity-laced call for President Trump's impeachment and referring to him as a motherf**ker while her young son laughed after she said it, freshman Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) couldn't hide her anti-Semitism and hatred for Israel, nor does she intend to hide it based on the way she covered Israel on her office map with a post it with the word "Palestine" over the Jewish state.

The hateful Muslima claimed that Jewish legislators in the United States have a dual loyalty, saying of those on the Hill who voiced opposition to legislation that goes against the BDS movement [Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel] they "forgot what country they represent."

Interesting. She places Palestine over Israel, a U.S. ally, on her map, and says that Jewish lawmakers forgot what country they represent. It's the other way around, toots. You are supposed to represent the United States, not the make believe land of Palestine.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), intimated that the legislation, [i.e., the anti-BDS bill] part of a package of bills related to Middle East policy, would be the first business the newly sworn in Senate would vote on. It would provide more leeway for state and local governments to refuse to do business with entities that have a policy of boycotting, divesting, and/or sanctioning our ally Israel.

There is a fair debate to be had about the balancing act between combating the BDS movement and free speech, though opponents of the legislation also have to grapple with the fact that existing laws prevent governments from contracting with businesses that engage in discriminatory practices, and the movement to boycott Israeli Jews certainly is discriminatory.

Democratic Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland tried to make a separate process argument against the bill, arguing that the Senate should not take up any business unrelated to ending the partial government shutdown. Their heads remain up in their nether regions.

But Tlaib obliterated that messaging strategy when she pulled out the anti-Semitic guns, saying advocates of the bill "forgot what country they represent." The idea of Jews as having divided loyalty, and of using their influence to convince others to act against the interests and principles of their own country, is an age-old anti-Semitic trope. 

Idiots used to say the same thing about Catholics--that they would have dual allegiances: the country and the pope. There is never a shortage of idiots and we elect them again and again.

Speaking of which, Tlaib supports the anti-Israel boycotts and also defended former CNN contributer Marc Lamont Hill after he was fired from the network for calling for the elimination of Israel and endorsing violence against Jews.

The Democratic Party has a festering anti-Semitism problem within its own ranks, and so far it seems content to look the other way and excuse the deployment of stereotypical attacks on Jews as long as they are thinly masked as mere criticism of Israel.

Even some of the Democratic secular Jews like Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer, have not pushed back against these attacks. And yet, their party continues to attack President Trump as a racist, while the proof is in the halal pudding. Bernie Sanders loves pudding.

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