My latest in PJ Media:
Ever-vigilant for the integrity of our government, Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Anti-Semitic Dog Whistles) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Socialist Swag), and five of their henchmen have written to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, demanding that the Treasury Department stop granting tax-exempt status to American charities that work in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Because they’re aiding and abetting Israel’s “illegal settlement enterprise,” you see. True to form, however, the Squad duo has clearly not done its homework and betrays ignorance of the basic facts of the case.
The group, which also included the forgotten Muslim member of the House, Rep. André Carson of Indiana, and the forgotten member of the Squad, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, declared its “extreme concern that US charities are funding and providing direct support to Israeli organizations that are working to expand and perpetuate Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise in violation of international law, including supporting the dispossession and forced displacement of Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem neighborhoods.”
The letter added: “We are concerned that these policies violate US obligations under international law, as well as federal tax law.” It claimed that the tax-exempt status of the groups concerned (which include Central Fund of Israel (CFI) and American Friends of Beit El) was essentially a “subsidy” from the U.S. government that was being used to pay for “serious breaches of international law and violations of internationally recognized human rights related to the expansion of the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise.” These groups were, said the Leftist legislators, “fueling the dispossession and displacement of Palestinians.”
Nor was its call limited to those two groups. The letter demands that Yellen provide a list of U.S. charities that are “operating directly or indirectly in any occupied territory.”
As is characteristic of the Left, this appeal is long on propagandistic plays on the emotions and short on facts. The falsehoods and distortions begin with the letter’s reference to “Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise.” The underlying assumption here is that Israel is illegally building homes for Israelis on land that doesn’t belong to Israel, but is “occupied.” Hordes of Leftists in America and elsewhere take this for granted as axiomatically true, but it isn’t. As The Palestinian Delusion explains, Israel did indeed take control of the “occupied” territory in question after the Six-Day War of 1967, during which the Muslim Arab states neighboring Israel launched an unprovoked attack upon it; Israel followed the practice of winners of defensive wars throughout world history in taking territory from the defeated aggressors to ensure there would be no repetition of the aggression.
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mortimer says
The anti-Zionism of Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is ANTI-SEMITISM by another name.
They are concealing their Jew hatred by a pretended hatred of Israel.
While Tlaib wants an all-Arab NATIONALIST Palestine to replace present-day Israel, AOC wants NO NATIONALISMS anywhere. The two are already at deadly odds with one another without knowing it.
Infidel says
I think that the Left is willing to grant muslim countries a carveout when it comes to nationalism
bill says
mortimer
That is OK if they also remove tax free status from all the organisations promoting Islam and sending aid to jihadists. Staring with CAIR I was very disappointed that trump did not do this,
I suppose they would get very upset if that was done. and scream ‘islamophobia/
Infidel says
Yeah, there were too many ex Bush people who were wary of being perceived as ‘islamophobic’. Getting rid of traitors should be a higher priority for the Trump campaign than uniting the party by co-opting them, which will do as much damage as it did in the Bush years, and open the way for a President AOC one day
gravenimage says
Tlaib, AOC Want Treasury to Deny Tax-Exempt Status to Groups Aiding Israel’s ‘Illegal Settlement Enterprise’
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They want to use the US in their genocide against Israel. And Biden may well let them.
maria says
i am afraid it is so. The leftists are supporting these muslim animals and will do everything to destroy Israel and like hitler to kill all the Jews.
The nazis were hanged after the war and all these squads should be hanged too
Mae~mae says
How bigoted of them. They know some Americans are so willfully blinded by their own denial of the blatantly obvious in everyone’s faces they’re clearly bigoted. Muslims have to play relentless victimhood charades to justify their unjust hate for Israel and anyone that supports them. This is why I prefer to stay pragmatic on these issues while many other Americans let them manipulate their feelings on the matter.
OLD GUY says
What a pair of idiots, or should I say traitors? It is not hard to see that these two don’t support the American constitution and represent the islamic regimes around the world. I’am afraid that with the open border policies of Biden and friends we will see more of these radical islamic loving representatives in congress. They don’t represent American freedom.
Spideyweb1 says
How much longer will we be able to call ourselves a Republic..where the halls of Congress are polluted with anti-American anti-Israel and anti-western hatred spewing from the mouths of the filth already in power? It’s bad enough that swine and functional illiterate Jobama, has stolen the Presidency right under our noses, we’re witnessing the dismantling of our country, burning hotter than Rome did when emperor Nero fiddled with himself…