Here's how it all went down:
Both Tlaib and her Jew-hating buddy Ilhan Omar were denied entry into Israel, [which they referred to as Palestine] because the dynamic duo of anti-Semites support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and have made myriad anti-Semitic statements in the past. When Tlaib learned that she was denied, [even their sponsoring organization is blatantly anti-Semitic] she balked and begged Israel to allow her entry to visit her 90-year-old grandmother.
Well, Israel called her bluff and would allow her entry if she promised not to push the BDS movement while in the Jewish state. So instead of agreeing to that concession, she decided granny could whistle because she wouldn't go. She would have had to pay for the trip herself as well. Although she hadn't seen her grandmother since 2006, it didn't matter--Tlaib's anti-Semitism was more important than seeing granny, perhaps for the last time.
So, amid the controversy, Maher appropriately and fiercely criticized the BDS movement on Friday. "BDS a bulls**t purity test by people who want to appear woke but actually slept through history class," he said.
"It's predicated on this notion ... I think it's very shallow thinking that the Jews in Israel are mostly white and Palestinians are mostly brown, so they must be innocent and correct and the Jews must be wrong," Maher added.
"As if the occupation came right out of the blue, that this 'completely peaceful people' found themselves occupied. Forget about the intifadas and the suicide bombings and the rockets and how many wars."
Tlaib responded on Saturday by comparing Maher's commentary to tactics used to block protests against apartheid in South Africa. This time, she didn't pull out a nose hair to bring on the flow of fake tears. She tweeted:
"Maybe folks should boycott his show," she said. "I am tired of folks discrediting a form of speech that is centered on equality and freedom."Maybe folks should realize how insidiously dangerous Tlaib's free speech is and how it hurts us as a nation.
But Maher didn't take her words lying down and took to Twitter.
"Some people have one move only: boycott. Cancel. Make-go-away. But here’s the thing, the house voted 318 to 17 to condemn the #BDS movement, including 93% of Dems. Does Tlaib want to boycott 93% of her own party?"Maher's tweet was in reference to the July vote on a resolution opposing the BDS movement against Israel, which both Tlaib and Omar opposed because they, as Muslims, were taught to hate Jews.
That sounds horribly blunt, but sadly it's true. Of course not every Muslim hates Jews--my apostate wife is an example of that--but the Koran contains many anti-Semitic and anti-Christian suras [verses].
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