18 May 16 • 2019
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Revisionist History

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reshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib, 
D-Mich., said in an interview 
that she “loves the fact” that her 
“Palestinian ancestors” 
were part an attempt 
“to create a safe haven 
for Jews” after the 
Holocaust.
She made the com-
ments in an interview 
on Saturday on the 
Skullduggery podcast titled “From 
Rashida With Love.
”
“There’
s always kind of a calming 
feeling when I think of the tragedy of 
the Holocaust, that it was my ances-
tors — Palestinians — who lost their 
land and some lost their lives, their 
livelihood, their human dignity, their 
existence, in many ways, has been 
wiped out … in the name of trying to 
create a safe haven for Jews, post-Ho-
locaust, post-tragedy and the horrific 
persecution of Jews across the world 
at that time. And I love the fact that it 
was my ancestors that provided that 
in many ways,
” Tlaib said.
Her characterization of what 
occurred in pre-state Palestine 
appears to be inconsistent with his-
torical fact, however.
Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, the 
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, opposed 
all immigration of Jews into Palestine 
and, during the war, he campaigned 
against the transfer of Jewish refugees 
to Palestine. He reportedly worked 
with the Nazis to prevent the estab-
lishment of a Jewish homeland.
In addition, the Palestinian Arab 
residents revolted against the British 
which led to restrictions on Jewish 

immigration to British Mandate 
Palestine, depriving Jews of a “safe 
haven.
”
Tlaib also condemned Prime 
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not 
seeing her grandmother who lives in 
the West Bank as an equal.
“We can smell it from far away 
that, no, you don’
t want to look at my 
grandmother in the eye, Netanyahu, 
and say ‘
You are equal to me. You are 
as human as I am to you,
’
” she said.
At least two of Tlaib’
s Republican 
colleagues took her remarks out of 
context, saying she had said that the 
Holocaust — and not the refuge that 
Jews found in Palestine — gave her 
a “calming feeling.
” “Rashida Tlaib 
says thinking of the Holocaust pro-
vides her a ‘
calming feeling’
,
” Rep. Liz 
Cheney, R-Wyo., the third-ranking 
Republican in the Senate said on 
Twitter. “@RashidaTlaib says the 
Holocaust gives her ‘
a calming feel-
ing’
,
” Rep. Lee Zeldin, D-N.Y., said on 
the same platform.
Tlaib in a statement slammed 
Cheney “for using the tragedy of the 
Holocaust in a transparent attempt 
to score political points.
” Tlaib in her 
statement said she “did not in any way 
praise the Holocaust, nor did she say 
the Holocaust itself brought a calming 
feeling to her.
”
Last week Tlaib, the first 
Palestinian-American to be elected to 
Congress, announced the dates for her 
congressional visit to the West Bank, 
which she organized to compete with 
Israel trips organized by the American 
Israel Education Foundation, an 
affiliate of the American Israel Public 
Affairs Committee. ■

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