US Congresswoman Tlaib Refuses “Oppressive” “Israeli” Visit Terms

By Staff, Agencies

US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib Friday rejected an offer by the “Israeli” entity to let her travel to the occupied West Bank, saying she would not visit her family there because the “Israeli” regime had imposed “oppressive conditions” to humiliate her.

Tlaib, a Democrat in the House of Representatives who has been critical of “Israeli” policy toward the Palestinians, had planned to make an official visit to the entity along with fellow Democrat congresswoman Ilhan Omar from Minnesota.

“Israeli” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under pressure from Republican US President Donald Trump, Thursday said he would not allow the pair to make a planned trip to the “Israeli” occupied territories. Israel Friday decided to allow Tlaib to visit family in the Israel-occupied West Bank on humanitarian grounds.

But the Michigan congresswoman rejected the offer, saying she will not allow “Israel” to “to take away that light by humiliating me & use my love for my sity to bow down to their oppressive & racist policies,” Tlaib tweeted, using “sity” to refer to her grandmother.

“Silencing me & treating me like a criminal is not what she wants for me. It would kill a piece of me. I have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in – fighting against racism, oppression & injustice,” she added.

The “Israeli” entity’s so-called Interior Ministry said it had received a letter from Tlaib Thursday seeking permission to visit her family, and granted her request.

Tlaib, in her tweets, did not outline what the conditions imposed on her visit were. “Israeli” media, however, reported that she had agreed not to promote boycotts against the entity as part of her request to the entity’s Foreign Ministry.

Tlaib and Omar have voiced support for the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement [BDS] that opposes the “Israeli” occupation and policies toward Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.

Under “Israeli” law, BDS backers can be denied entry to the “Israeli” entity.