Israel-hating “squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) didn’t take kindly to being questioned about whether the Jewish state has the right to exist, losing her cool in a newly resurfaced video.
The video, which is said to have been recorded in 2019, shows the recently elected Muslim congresswoman responding to a person who described herself as a “concerned Jewish constituent” who Tlaib asked whether she worked for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Separate but equal doesn’t work, it didn’t work with blacks and whites in our country, it shouldn’t work in Israel,” the left-wing Democrat said at the beginning of the clip obtained by Fox News Digital. “Right?”
(Video: Fox News)
“So would that be a right for Israel to exist?” asked the person recording the video who requested to not be identified, according to the outlet.
“Do they pay you guys?” Tlaib snapped back. “Do you work for Netanyahu?”
The constituent says that she’s an American citizen, and continues to press the congresswoman for an answer to her question.
“Would you like to answer the question?” Rep. Tlaib is asked. “Congresswoman, it’s really concerning for me that you can’t just say that you believe Israel should exist.”
“Oh, my God. Do you understand what that means?” Tlaib asks. “To coexist…Why isn’t that beautiful? That should mean coexist. That means everyone should feel safe, no matter who they are, or their background is.”
“So the Jews would have a state that they felt safe in?” the constituent asked Tlaib.
“If it means my grandmother can’t exist equally as a human being then, no. Right?” Tlaib shot back as she got into an elevator.
“So coexist. Separate but equal doesn’t work,” the Democrat said as the elevator doors hissed shut.
Since the video was recorded, Tlaib and her fellow “Squad” members have only become more dug in with their animosity toward Israel that often borders if not crosses the line into overt anti-Semitism which has been tacitly condoned by a Democratic party that won’t criticize the yappy leftists who are led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the media-savvy former bartender who quickly became the party’s ideological thought leader after her 2018 election to Congress.
In another video clip from 2019, Tlaib was discussing the BDS movement of economic terrorism against Israel that initially took root on the nation’s radicalized college campuses with CNN’s Jake Tapper when she said that the Jewish democracy “exists” to the “detriment” of the Palestinians.
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“Do you think the Jewish people have the right to a state in the area where Israel exists now?” Tapper asked.
“Look, I truly believe the state of Israel exists, correct,” she replied. “But, understand, does it exist in the detriment of inequality for the Palestinian people, detriment of not really moving forward in a peaceful resolution? We’re never going to have peace, I truly believe, if separate but equal is the way they want to go.”
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