Democrats are finally getting wise to Republicans' antisemitism smears
NOVANEWS
Joshua Leifer
The leadership’s firm response to attacks on Rashida Tlaib stand in contrast to their equivocation over Ilhan Omar. Democrats must fight back against divide and conquer tactics.
Rashida Tlaib’s empathetic statements about the Holocaust and the Nakba were misrepresented by Republicans in a ‘desperate’ attempt to smear her, Nancy Pelosi said. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA
At first, it looked to be more of the same: another week, another rash of false accusations of antisemitism launched by Republicans against one of the two new Muslim-American congresswomen. This time it was Rashida Tlaib who found herself under attack for comments she made on a Yahoo News podcast. \
Tlaib had tried to speak about the interwoven tragedies of the Jewish and Palestinian people,...