Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Partnered with Vicious Anti-Semites to Plan Their Trip to Israel
Writing yesterday,
the Washington Post said that “Omar and Tlaib’s trip to Jerusalem and the West Bank was planned by
Miftah, a nonprofit organization headed by Palestinian lawmaker and longtime peace negotiator Hanan Ashrawi.”
The New York Times described it as an organization “headed by a longtime Palestinian lawmaker.” In its editorial, the
New York Times editorial board
identified it as a group “that promotes ‘global awareness and knowledge of Palestinian realities.’”
This is a whitewash. Thanks to a
Twitter thread from the
Washington Examiner’s Seth Mandel — who pointed to multiple additional sources — I started looking at the articles and views published on the Miftah website, and it was like peeling an onion of evil. There was layer upon layer of vile anti-Semitism.
First, the group actually
published blood libel, posting an article that accused “the Jews [of using] the blood of Christians in the Jewish Passover.” When pro-Israel bloggers condemned the article, Miftah first claimed that the attacks against the piece were part of a “
smear campaign” and minimized the reference to blood libel as merely “briefly addressed.”