With their and Russia's support for Repugs and with a committed fascist in office, they plan to help him steal the country forever.

Israel has a chance to give Netanyahu the boot in Sept. If they don't, I think this and a few other appalling recent policy decisions are going to come back to bit them in the near future. When AIPAC is not even defending a decision, I'd say there are problems.

But Rubin is understating Rep. Tlaib's positions on the IP confict when she describes them as mere "criticism". The one state solution Rep. Tlaib supports is in direct opposition to the UN Security Council's resolutions on the Israel/Palestinian conflict as well as the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She does not support the very idea of a Jewish homeland, and does not recognize the Jewish connection to the land, going as far to claim that Jesus was a Palestinian.



The candidate, Rashida Tlaib, also said in an interview that she favors a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as opposed to a two-state solution that would establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

https://forward.com/news/national/408368/michigan-democratic-nominee-endorses-one-state-solution-cuts-to-israeli/

She said her immigrant mother keeps her grounded, and is so compassionate. She said her mother told a man who voiced opposition to her hijab, “You don’t understand. Jesus was born in my country!” Tlaib said her mother believes that if people know that, things will be so much better.

http://www.pressandguide.com/news/rashida-tlaib-an-arab-american-woman-s-rise-to-congress/article_b5ac5c24-6211-11e9-addd-cb9dffac23c3.html?


In an interview on the Skullduggery podcast released last Friday, Tlaib — the first Palestinian-American woman representative in Congress — chose to take a historical detour when asked about her vision of a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“There’s a kind of a calming feeling, I always tell folks, when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust in the fact that it was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways had been wiped out, and some people’s passports.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-palestinian-scholars-reject-rashida-tlaib-s-take-on-post-holocaust-history-1.7239784

Omar and and Tlaib are antisemites who oppose Israel's existence. Their stance is not mere "criticism". Israel has a law barring such people from entering. Because of that, the Israelis were going to be damned either way. If they blocked Tlaib and Omar they would be violating Liberal principles and they would be criticized for it. If they let Omar and Tlaib into Israel, they would: 1) Be creating an exception to their law that other high ranking Israel haters and antisemites would exploit. 2) Create a propaganda boon for the more radical Palestinian factions. 3) Give Omar and Tlaib an opportunity to do who knows what mischief while they were in Israel. The consequences of allowing them in were unpredictable; those for barring them were not. Israel chose the devil they knew. I think most Democrats would understand that this is not an attack on Democrats. On the other hand, if Tlaib and Omar actually represent the thinking of Democrats on Israel, then the Israelis aren't losing much.