Israel Bans Anti-Semitic Congresswomen

American politicians are now falling all over themselves to denounce Israel for refusing to grant entry to two of its most vicious enemies. While they are damaging Israel with their words they are also defending the legitimacy of Jew hatred. Go figure.

As you know, Israel, following the rule of its own laws, is not going to allow Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib to use their position to promote anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli propaganda. The Jewish nation has said that it will allow Tlaib entry to the West Bank in order to visit her ailing grandmother.

Perhaps it would be good to ask how the Democratic Party has been working to legitimize anti-Semitism, but that would apparently be too much. Best to bash Israel for defending itself against terrorists and their enablers.

Of course, the Congresswomen were not going to visit Israel. They were going to visit what they call the occupied territories. They were not going to meet with Israeli politicians, on either side of the political spectrum. They were going to Israel to denounce that nation as a Nazi cabal against poor, innocent Palestinian terrorists. They were going to legitimate the Palestinian strategy of destroying Israel through a propaganda war mounted and sustained by Western leftist dupes.

Not wishing to miss the chance to countenance anti-Semitism, The New York Times editorialized about the group that invited the Congresswomen:

The visit Ms. Omar and Ms. Tlaib were contemplating was not to Israel proper, but to the West Bank, where they were to visit Hebron, Ramallah and Bethlehem, as well as Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, on a trip co-sponsored by a Palestinian organization, Miftah, that promotes “global awareness and knowledge of Palestinian realities.” 

The truth lies elsewhere. Miftah supports an anti-Semitic blood libel. Apparently, the Times did not see fit to publish this fact:

On March 27, 2013 MIFTAH, a Palestinian non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1998 by Hanan Ashrawi (Chair of MIFTAH’s Board of Directors), published an article by Nawaf al-Zaru that repeated the antisemitic blood libel.1 He wrote, “Does Obama in fact know the relationship, for example, between ‘Passover’ and ‘Christian blood’… ?!  Or ‘Passover’ and ‘Jewish blood rituals…?! Much of the historical stories and tales about Jewish blood rituals in Europe are based on real rituals and are not false as they claim; the Jews used the blood of Christians in the Jewish Passover …” (translated from the original Arabic by NGO Monitor).

As you probably know, Ashrawi has been banned from entering the United States.

To say that Omar and Tlaib might learn something in Israel is fatuous cant. They have no intention to do so. They want to embarrass Israel, to damage its international reputation. And to make it look weak. In truth, strength means not allowing them to enter the Jewish nation. Obviously, editorialists at the Times and elsewhere are rushing out to say that Israel is weak for defending itself.  

The Times believes that Israel would be showing strength if it allowed these two women to come to its country and to use the visit to call for its destruction. Keep in mind, they are not interested in dialogue or debate. They do not believe in being better informed. They are leftist fanatics who have only one agenda.

In truth, they want to give aid and comfort to the enemies of Israel and to the enemies of democracy. It is especially rich to see so many people defending Omar and Tlaib on the grounds that democracy demands that Israel submit to defamation and libel, and being strong means giving these women a platform to denounce Israel as a criminal conspiracy and to call for Israel’s destruction. 

And no, Israel has not turned these women into martyrs, as Richard Haass weakly suggested. It has shown them for what they are, anti-Semitic bigots who want to continue their propaganda war against Israel. As for making them into martyrs, those who are are far more agitated over the ban than they ever were about the BDS movement or about the manifest anti-Semitism of these women are elevating their message… to the detriment of Israel.