Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib called for Israel to return the body of a female terrorist who was killed while she attempted to kill Israeli soldiers.
In a Twitter thread on Saturday, Tlaib, one of Israel’s harshest critics in Congress, slammed Israel for its policy of holding onto the bodies of terrorists who are killed during an attack.
“Meet Mai Afana’s mother, Khuloud, who is fighting to be able to bury her daughter & begin her healing,” wrote Tlaib, a Palestinian American. “Mai was a mother, loving daughter & successful PhD student. She was killed by the Israeli government last June. Israel won’t release her body to her family.”
Attached to the tweet is a photo of Afana’s mother holding up a poster of her daughter.
Afana was killed on June 16. The Israeli military said at the time that she had rammed her car into a checkpoint near Jerusalem and then, holding a knife, had rushed the soldiers at the checkpoint. An Israeli soldier was lightly injured in the attack.
Israel routinely holds bodies of terrorists as a means of bargaining for live Israeli captives and the bodies of Israelis held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Tlaib does not in her Twitter thread explain the background to Afana’s death except for an apparent allusion to her belief that the army had not made its case against Afana, saying that bodies are held “without proof.”
“I am sharing Mai’s story because I began to only learn last year of this inhumane practice by the Israeli govt,” Tlaib wrote. “Without proof, they make claims, and all to just continue to dehumanize Palestinians even after they have died. We must stand against this form of collective violence.”
Tlaib also does not address the underlying rationale for the policy — Hamas’ refusal to return Israeli bodies and captives. She does link to a Human Rights Watch report condemning Israel for holding another terrorist’s body; that report mentions Israel’s rationale for holding the bodies and condemns Hamas as well.
Meet Mai Afana's mother, Khuloud, who is fighting to be able to bury her daughter & begin her healing. Mai was a mother, loving daughter & successful PhD student. She was killed by the Israeli government last June. Israel won't release her body to her family. pic.twitter.com/kHehtA0yeW
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) August 28, 2021
“The Palestinian people deserve the same dignity as any other human being,” Tlaib wrote. “To deny the right to see their loved ones for a modicum of closure is another form of painful violence from the U.S. sponsored, Israeli arsenal. Mai’s dead body is one of hundreds being held.”
Tlaib is one of a handful of far-left Democrats who back the boycott Israel movement and who during the Israel-Hamas conflict in May called for a cut in funding to Israel. She is the only member of Congress who says she believes Israel should not exist as a Jewish state.
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Send her to talib in a bacon box.
Hell, SEND TALIB to the Taliban, one way!!!
Will Tlaib and Omar go the hell away!!! Give them a job on The View.
““Meet Mai Afana’s mother, Khuloud, who is fighting to be able to bury her daughter & begin her healing,” wrote Tlaib”. Yep Tlaib, Mai Afana’s mother raised a terrorist, so to you Khuloud and Mai Afana are fine upstanding citizens / terrorists, right, Rashida Tlaib Traitor?
AND wht about the ‘healing’ of those her mother TRIED TO KILL..
I’m sure Israel is having a good laugh. What you don’t realize and will never accept is the world trust none of you after what’s happened. You have no right or power to demand anything.
“The Palestinian people deserve the same dignity as any other human being,” Tlaib wrote.
But this Rag Head, like all of the Democrat Party Congress members, believe that only those who they support deserve human rights.
She (Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib) says she believes Israel should not exist as a Jewish state.
“they deserve the same dignity’?
NO THEY BLOODY DON’T.
Till they stop acting like rabid animals, who want to ELIMINATE ALL jews from the face of the planet, They don’t deserve to even be CALLED HUMANS< let alone enjoy ANY Dignity!
Let’s all email Tlaib that nobody here gives a damn about any stinking dead bodies of Islam terrorists.
The believers & followers of Islam world domination have blown many thousands of people to smithereens & it is their mothers & loved ones that have been left without even bits & pieces of bodies to bury that we have sympathy for.
She does deserve credit though for creating even more loathing & hate of Islam & it’s really stupid & annoying followers who beg, cry & demand refuge in free Western nations like USA where they then insidiously revert to supporting, defending & creating the same genocidal & terroristic Islam domination they fled from.
It’s a mystery to me why any free civilized nation would even permit Islam / Sharia law to be recognized, much less allow its followers to migrate in & start fomenting barbaric Islamic political upheaval, terror & domination.
DId you hear about the supposed new call, by some schools, to stop referring to the terrorists ON 9/11, AS TERRORISTS, in case it ‘Offends mudslime students”, when we do this year’s rememberence??
Well, I do think specificity is important so I am happy to refer to all the followers of genocidal Islam, past, present & future, as “Islam” terrorists.
I would suggest honoring muslim tradition and return her head first, followed by her hands, then the torso. I would also suggest the latter be gutted and packed with bacon fat.