Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Tuesday accused Israel of racism due to its failure to offer to distribute coronavirus vaccines to Palestinian Arabs.
“I think it’s really important to understand Israel is a racist state and that they would deny Palestinians, like my grandmother, access to a vaccine, that they don’t believe that she’s an equal human being that deserves to live, deserves to be able to be protected by this global pandemic,” the congresswoman, who is of Palestinian Arab descent, told Democracy Now.
“And it’s really hard to watch as this apartheid state continues to deny their own neighbors, the people that breathe the same air they breathe, that live in the same communities,” she charged.
“I hope my colleagues, I hope our country, sees what the Palestinians have been trying to tell us for a very long time. … You can see it with the distribution of the vaccine,” continued Tlaib.
Tlaib also maintained that Israel “has no intention” of helping Palestinian Arabs recover from the coronavirus pandemic because the US is “enabling” them to do so.
“They have the power to distribute that vaccine to the Palestinian people, their own neighbors, again, feet away from where they live, many of which, again, could expose them and their family and it doesn’t,” she told Democracy Now. “If anything, it just reiterates what the Palestinian people and even human rights groups have been telling us, is that this is an apartheid state.”
Israel has been criticized by several organizations in recent weeks for failing to provide the Palestinian Authority (PA) with COVID-19 vaccines.
However, as former Ambassador Alan Baker pointed out in a recent interview with Arutz Sheva, Israel is in no way obligated to deliver vaccines to Palestinian Arabs or to residents of Gaza.
“The Geneva Convention does not apply in the territories and since we signed the Oslo Accords with the PLO, the only legal regime operating in the territories is the one defined in the Oslo Accords. There is no commitment that implies that we need to provide the Palestinians with vaccines,” he said.
New Hope party chairman Gideon Sa’ar told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour last week that Israel would be more than happy to provide vaccines to the PA, but that would only happen once it ensures that its own citizens have been vaccinated.
“As you know, after the Oslo Accords and after our withdrawal from Gaza, the vast majority of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria and in Gaza are under Palestinian control. It’s the responsibility of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas to take care of their citizens,” he said, adding, “We would like to help but we will be able to help only after taking care of our own citizens.”
The PA, meanwhile, has said it had signed agreements with four companies to supply COVID-19 vaccines. On Tuesday, it received a shipment of the Russian Sputnik vaccine which was reportedly donated by President Vladimir Putin.
Tlaib, of course, is notorious for her anti-Israel statements. She claimed in an interview in 2019 that Palestinian Arabs living in the British Mandate prior to the establishment of the State of Israel “provided” a safe haven to Jews after the Holocaust.
In addition, when asked in a past television interview whether she would vote against military aid to Israel when she goes to Congress, Tlaib replied, “Absolutely.”
Last year, Tlaib tweeted an acknowledgement of Nakba Day, a day commemorated by Palestinian Arabs to mark what they call the “catastrophe” of the establishment of the State of Israel.
Last summer, Israel announced it would bar entry to Tlaib and fellow Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar over their support for BDS.
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Could this hateful,racist, anti-semite jackass be any… MORE… detached from reality? Israel will take care of it’s own people that support it’s government first.
I wonder, HAS THERE EVER been a more abject TRAITOR to this nation, than her, in office?? And just think HOW TREASONOUS ALL THOSE who voted her into office are.
You can’t blame Democrat voters for their ignorance. They have been systematically lied too since birth. They have been lied to by most politicians, the State run and sponsored media and the NEA. Yes there are other abject traitors. Too many to name but we can start with Pelosi, Schumer, and every Democrat in the House have disavowed civility, the Constitution and every positive norm of a civil society.
BHO
Yes there has been abject traitors beside Tlaid, the 4 eyed pig. There’s diaper head Omar and bug eyed donkey face AOC and wannabe Elvis Pressly. Could go on about cement face Pelosi and little Upchuck Schumer and senile Joe and Oboob and the street walker, also known as the senate tramp, Harris.
In answer to the first part of the question I would refer you to the racist Communist hypocrite Barry the Fairy Obama. And secondly anyone who votes for a liberal for any reason at all is a traitor to this country. No exceptions.
YES! barack hussein Ohomo!
Muslim beliefs from an infiltrator. Sorry but these people are in our government and the America we know is about to become part of a Caliphate if this continues. Sorry my Muslim friends but I have listened well to your conversations with me.
If i could only change ONE thing about our constitution, it would be to go back to the day it was wrote, and ENSURE THEY INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING in article 1..
AT NO POINT IN TIME< will Communism or Islam, EVER BE ALLOWED to even gain a foothold in our nation, let alone anyone who follows either of those two belief systems, be allowed to run for office. ALSO at no point in time, will ANY MOSQUE be allowed to be constructed on US SOIL…
All the Leftist anti-Semites are now free to spew their bile .
And Joe jusrt signed an executive order to allow more of herPalestinian voters to come into the country. Just keeps on making America last.
Israel became a country in 1948. The palestinians are still trying to form theirs. You’d think they would just admit they are unfit to be an independent governing aurthority.
have they NOT ALWAYS been free to do that??
Rashida, you are a racist, along with the rest of the Democrats. You Rashida are a racist against the Jewish people and you are a racist against the white people.
pure trash is all she is.
As are all liberals
I see tliab as a racist. She is is representative of a state filled with fools.
You didn’t get the memo. ONLY WHITE conservative men, can be racist…
This piece of **** needs to be kicked out of congress.
This piece of **** has deleted a video ,where she says she was born in a plane half way from Palestine and because of that her family doesn’t believe she is an American citizen. She was laughing about this. Half way is international waters. The video was when she was first running for office. But she was laughing about it.
Too bad one of her palestinian terrorist buddys didn’t plant a bomb on that plane.
99.9999% of congress, needs to be kicked out, NOT JUST OF congress, but the entire USA.. if not the world.
Now don’t be bad mouthing pieces of ****. They are 10 steps up from Tlaib.
Yeah, and Granny believes in Israel’s right to exist, right?
She probably CHANTS death to israel, DAILY! If not multiple times a day.
Another foul comment from the most foul mouthed slice of spoiled pork in the Congress . It can say whatever It wants and it will still be considered like the Stephen King IT clown.
When the PLO signs a real peace treaty , maybe then will Israel give them the vaccine. Until then, use the Russian junk which is 50% effective,
HOW many times have they signd peace treaties, THEN BROKEN THEM WITHIN WEEKS?!
Most within hours.
AND YET, these fools, STILL THINK ‘we need to make nice with them’??
Better yet, inject them with pig urine. Tlaib is first then Omar.
This woman is so repulsive and in my opinion EVIL ! She has been a problem from DAY 1 when she was seen wrapping herself in a “Palestinian” Flag. She is one of the most Racist, hateful people in all of Congress, and I really wish that there was some way to get her OUT of there ! She should have NEVER been elected to begin with.
Rep. Tlaib overlooks one unfortunate problem with her charge of racism by the Israelis against the Palestinians: they’re the same race!! Unfortunately, she must have slept through a few too many classes……if she went to school at all!
“they don’t believe that she’s an equal human being that deserves to live,” For a moment I thought she was talking about the unborn and the elderly in nursing homes where Biden’s new COVID team member believes they ought to be allowed to die as they are a drain on society.
It is really hard to accept that liberals value life when they are so quick to toss it away if it doesn’t fit their agenda.
THe only life they seem to value, IS THAT OF CRIMINALS sentenced to death row..
Hey big mouth! Tell your granma to go down to her local palestinian gov’t and get her vaccine there!
What? You say they have no gov’t.
Well ****, someone from her side of the border has been sending bombs, rockets, bullets and terrorists and more against Israel since 1947.
Tell her to go see them! Maybe they can buy vaccine for their people instead of arms?
You must still be in the Army or Marines. Get a tank and grease the tracks with Tlaib’s guts. I’d be satisfied if you just used an APC.
The diversity of never ending racism, race baiting demagogues , overt bigotry and born-again knee-jerk hatred is the only diversity the Democrat party embraces without question. The devalued values of sexual politics, ethnic and racial strife is the only thing that unites the Democrap party.
During the several wars, attacks, bombardments and suicide bombings, Israel has ALWAYS given medical aid to everyone involved; friend or foe, and Muslim citizens living in Israel have FULL rights. How does that equate to Jews living in Muslim countries you race-baiting, grievance-mongering, racist, anti-Semitic piece of ambulatory excrement?
It’s sort of like watching Pinocchio, very time she spews her systemic anti-Israeli racist hate rhetoric, her face grows more demonic. She probably would have frightened Osama Ben Laden.
You are such a target rich environment. If you are a bipedal, hairless hominid who walks upright and has opposable thumbs, that, by the broadest stretch of the definition, makes you a member of the HUMAN RACE and makes me a proud, unapologetic RACIST.
And the Muslim countries are so tolerant. Have you ever heard of Muslim privilege? That’s what goes on 24/7 in every Muslim country. Another hypocrite in the Democrat party.
That filthy loudmouth has no idea what a racist really is. She’s too busy glowing out curses to find out what’s going on!
Well, isn’t she just a big SeeYouNextTuesday? In both senses of the word? For your information, Ra SHEEda, there’s never been a country called “Palestine” and, as far as who came first, the city of Jerusalem was the capital of the Kingdom of Israel 3000 years ago.
Now go back and wallow in the mud like the pig that you are. Kind of ironic for a Muslim, huh?
Many of Tlaib’s Muslim brothers and sisters hate Israel and Jews. Tlaib’s racist rant shows her own hatred. Those who live there enjoy all the benefits of the Jewish state, yet still feel able to badmouth their benefactors.