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[IsraelTimes] Jewish independent lawmaker chairs gathering in Senate committee meeting room to mark Nakba; Tlaib accuses Israel of apartheid, terror, says US aiding ‘ethnic cleansing’
Sen. Bernie Sanders chaired a gathering in the US Senate Wednesday during which Congress member Rashida Tlaib hosted an event where she bashed Israel as an “apartheid” state that engages in terror.The gathering was to mark the Nakba, a Palestinian term meaning “catastrophe” that refers to the displacement of Palestinian people when Israel was founded in 1948.
Michigan lawmaker Talib had initially hoped to hold the event in the Congress Visitors Center but Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy thwarted her plan by reserving the space himself and hosting a celebration to mark 75 years of US-Israel ties.
Sanders then stepped in by chairing the meeting in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Hearing Room, located in the Senate office building and therefore outside of McCarthy’s reach.
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt panned Sanders for facilitating the Nakba event in the Capitol, calling it “disgraceful.”
“Real conversations are needed around a path to peace, but not with groups & individuals who espouse antisemitism,” Greenblatt wrote. “We call on the Senate to condemn this event.”
Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli responded by tweeting a photograph of wartime Jerusalem Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini, who met with Hitler, greeting a parade of Waffen-SS volunteers with a Nazi salute in 1943.
Since you insist, let's remember together the founding father of the Palestinian national movement, the mufti Amin al-Husseini. A mass murderer and the architecture of the “Nakba”. pic.twitter.com/gjTQBKHgZa
— עמיחי שיקלי - Amichai Chikli (@AmichaiChikli) May 11, 2023