16 | JULY 16 • 2020 but they support a free Palestine. They sup- port a Palestine that has equality and can live in peace. You supported a two-state solution before being elected. And then you said you sup- ported one state — I think you should pull the J Street ques- tionnaire. [Editor’ s note: J Street initially endorsed Tlaib’ s 2018 Congressional run, before later withdrawing it. The advo- cacy group issued a statement reading it “will not endorse candidates who do not endorse a two-state solution. ”] In the J Street questionnaire, I specifically say the two-state is almost impossible now around the racist policies of Netanyahu — that [a] two-state would be impossible without actually hurting Israelis. If you think about some of the Israeli families [who] have been in those communities for almost five decades, is the solution to push them out and recreate that kind of hurt? I just don’ t know how you uproot people yet again. That’ s what happened to Palestinians. I also know from my lens growing up in the United States that “separate but equal” doesn’ t work. I was there in 1995 when Prime Minister [Yitzhak] Rabin was still alive, and people were on the same buses together, people were going to the beach together. There wasn’ t this militarization of neighborhoods and villages. People spoke to each other. My uncle was going to his Israeli boss’ s daugh- ter’ s wedding. There was just this beautiful kind of humanity and that brought people together, where now the segregation — and that’ s what it is — is just making people less safe. There are a lot of Jews, both locally and nationally, who would get on board with your platform of economic justice were it not for your positions on BDS and Israel. What would you say to them? It’ s just this one issue that we might disagree on. I had a few residents who were like, “I don’ t know, Rashida. ” And I said, “You don’ t have to be there, but know it’ s coming from a place that I really believe. ” I really, truly believe that both communities can be free if we push back against Netanyahu’ s racism and right-wing approach. I ask people, “If you don’ t support BDS, great, that’ s on you, but don’ t judge or dismiss those who do because that’ s the way they’ re speaking up, that’ s their voice. And it’ s you wanting to put tape over their mouth and saying, ‘ You shouldn’ t support this. ’ ” You can disagree. You can say, “I don’ t believe in that approach. ” At the same time, you can [agree that] we need to hold Netanyahu accountable. [He’ s] a person who doesn’ t support many of the values, I think, of Israelis and Palestinians living in the United States right now. You visited the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills. What was that experi- ence like for you? It was extremely emotional. My son Adam went into one of the rooms and there were these clipped articles. He said, “Mom, look at the data. That one was three years before the United States intervened … People knew and they didn’ t do anything about it. ” It was a powerful moment. That’ s why you can’ t stay silent. That’ s why I went to the border and saw what was happening to immigrant children, and it’ s those kinds of images and things happening Jews in the D continued from page 15