On Wednesday, hard-Left Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was slammed after he joined the antisemites who posit that Israel determines American foreign policy.
Sanders targeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu including Hamas, Hezbollah, and now the despotic anti-Israel regime in Iran. On Monday, Sanders introduced the “No War On Iran Act, and attacked Netanyahu again, snapping, &#8220;Netanyahu&#8217;s reckless and illegal attacks violate international law and risk igniting a regional war. Congress must make it clear that the United States will not be dragged into Netanyahu&#8217;s war of choice.”
“Netanyahu is not the President of the United States,” Sanders wrote on X on Wednesday. “He should not be determining U.S. foreign and military policy. If the people of Israel support his decision to start a war with Iran, that is their business and their war. The United States must not be a part of it.”
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Netanyahu is not the President of the United States. 
He should not be determining U.S. foreign and military policy. 
If the people of Israel support his decision to start a war with Iran, that is their business and their war. 
The United States must not be a part of it.
&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1935358440500773065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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David Friedman, who was President Donald Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to Israel in his first term, savaged Sanders, responding, “You are a sick and hateful old man. Whatever Trump decides, it will be because he deems it best for America. Your completely false charge that Netanyahu is controlling America is a classic antisemitic trope whose only purpose is to foment resentment against Jews. Shame on you!”
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You are a sick and hateful old man. Whatever Trump decides, it will be because he deems it best for America. Your completely false charge that Netanyahu is controlling America is a classic antisemitic trope whose only purpose is to foment resentment against Jews. Shame on you! <a href="https://t.co/8qcManTwoq">https://t.co/8qcManTwoq</a>
&mdash; David M Friedman (@DavidM_Friedman) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidM_Friedman/status/1935502841789243581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Iran started a war with the U.S. in 1979 and hasn’t stopped since,” Fox News commentator Katie Pavlich pointed out.
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Iran started a war with the U.S. in 1979 and hasn’t stopped since. <a href="https://t.co/fNbF6MhJuT">https://t.co/fNbF6MhJuT</a>
&mdash; Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/1935378858737373658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Sorry Bernie maybe you missed the two massive waves of drone and missile attacks launched by Iran against Israel last year? But let’s not let simple facts get in the way of your foolish narratives,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) <a href="https://x.com/RepDanCrenshaw/status/1935056652408930675">fired back</a>.
<a href="https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2019/04/catering-to-the-democratic-fringe-bernie-sanders-defames-israel-again/">Mosaic Magazine</a> has noted:
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When Sanders wanted to win the Democratic nomination in 2016, he claimed that Israel had killed over 10,000 innocent Palestinians, launched indiscriminate attacks in the Gaza Strip, and shelled hospitals in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge in 2014. The senator not only inflated the numbers by several orders of magnitude, he even outdid the Hamas spokespersons in creating a false narrative that the IDF was intentionally attacking the civilian population.
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In February 2024, Sanders <a href="https://www.sanders.senate.gov/in-the-news/sanders-welch-break-with-democrats-to-vote-no-on-israel-ukraine-aid-package/">voted against</a> a major foreign aid package to support Ukraine’s fight against Russia because he objected to the funding for Israel as it fought against Hamas. He said Netanyahu and Israel were fighting a “horrific war against the Palestinian people.”

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Bernie Sanders Blasted After Joining Antisemitic Conspiracists: ‘Sick And Hateful Old Man’

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The White House is narrowing its search for its next nominee for ambassador to the United Nations after withdrawing Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s nomination to keep the New York Republican in the House.
According to a source involved in the process, the two top contenders under consideration are both first-term Trump administration officials: former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, and former Deputy Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat anti-Semitism Ellie Cohanim.
While Friedman likely did not need to undergo vetting due to his former high-profile role, Cohanim has undergone formal vetting, sources say.
President Donald Trump said more than 30 people are interested in the role he described as a“star-making” position while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. Trump said that Friedman and Richard Grenell, the envoy for special missions and acting director of the Kennedy Center, are possibilities.
Grenell said he was a “hard no” on taking the role during an <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/ric-grenell-u-n-ambassador-elise-stefanik/2025/03/27/id/1204682/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with Newsmax</a> last week.
“This is not something that I want to do. I’ve got plenty to do,” said Grenell. “I care very deeply, actually, about the U.N. But, you know, Elise Stefanik, let&#8217;s just say, she would have been amazing. She is smart and passionate about world affairs. I think she would have been amazing.&#8221;
Friedman is a longtime friend of Trump who was instrumental in helping to craft the Abraham Accords, moving the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and pushing for the United States to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
According to sources, Trump’s closest advisors may be reluctant to support Friedman, out of fear that his longstanding relationship with the president could undermine their authority.
Friedman recently shared a story about Trump visiting him during a blizzard in 2005 to pay his respects after the former ambassador’s father died.
“Even people down the block people called up and said ‘we’re sorry we can’t make it,’” Friedman said in an interview. “Around 2:00 in the afternoon I see in my hallway a lot of flash pictures are being taken…and he came from Manhattan 3.5 hours in the car.”
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During shiva for David Friedman’s father, US President Donald Trump braved the storm—showing true friendship and respect when it mattered most.
Watch David Friedman share this memory. 👇<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OneJewishState?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#OneJewishState</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DavidFriedman?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#DavidFriedman</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Trump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#Trump</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidM_Friedman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@DavidM_Friedman</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Now14Israel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@Now14Israel</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Tamir114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@Tamir114</a> <a href="https://t.co/u1qqz1nTRZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/u1qqz1nTRZ</a>
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Additionally, sources say the relationship between Friedman and Trump took a slightly sour turn when Friedman <a href="https://x.com/DavidM_Friedman/status/1596259584703963136" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized Trump</a> for meeting with anti-Semite Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, at Mar-a-Lago in 2022.
Friedman praised Trump’s plan for the United States to take control of Gaza <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ambassador-david-friedman-make-u-s-controlled-gaza-a-monument-to-the-failure-of-radical-islamism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in February</a>, which he said would create a “permanent monument to the failure of radical Islamism” if executed correctly.
Cohanim, who prides herself on being the first Iranian-born State Department envoy, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-launches-jewish-voices-for-trump-coalition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was involved</a> with the Trump campaign’s “Jewish Voices for Trump” coalition. Cohanim’s positions align with Trump including her opposition to the rise of anti-Semitism and her fierce opposition to the Iranian regime, which forced her family to flee during the 1979 revolution.
Cohanim, who was a broadcast journalist before joining the first Trump administration, helped craft anti-Semitism policy for the Middle East, North Africa, and Latin America in her former position. She was a member of the Abraham Accords’ Warm Peace Team and traveled the Arab world to help with initiatives such as <a href="https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/article-694668" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speaking at</a> the reopening ceremony of Egypt’s Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria.
Trump’s picking Cohanim would be in line with his track record of nominating women to the role including former UN Ambassadors Nikki Haley and Kelly Craft.
Stefanik, who appeared for her confirmation hearing in January, had her nomination held up due to New York Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/03/10/2025/hochul-expected-to-slow-walk-election-to-replace-stefanik" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> slow-walking the election to replace the congresswoman as the GOP <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-pulls-stefanik-nomination-united-nations-ambassador" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grappled</a> with its narrow House majority. Trump announced the withdrawal of her nomination last week, calling Stefanik one of his “biggest Allies.”
“With a very tight Majority, I don’t want to take a chance on anyone else running for Elise’s seat,” Trump said.”The people love Elise and, with her, we have nothing to worry about come Election Day. There are others that can do a good job at the United Nations. Therefore, Elise will stay in Congress, rejoin the House Leadership Team, and continue to fight for our amazing American People.”
Friedman and Cohanim did not respond to a request for comment.

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In an exclusive interview with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire">Morning Wire</a>, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman discussed President Trump&#8217;s plan to have the United States take control of Gaza, saying it could become a &#8220;permanent monument to the failure of radical Islamism&#8221; if executed correctly.
“Why not now take this extraordinarily valuable property in the hands of decent people, make it what it could be,” Friedman told Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley. “Let&#8217;s create a permanent monument to the failure of radical Islamism. Because that&#8217;s what this will become.”
During a Tuesday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-will-take-over-gaza-strip-trump-says-during-netanyahu-press-conference?topStoryPosition=undefined" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a> with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump announced his plans to relocate all Gazans out of the area and to rebuild the strip into a U.S.-owned-development zone.
Friedman said the effort could be funded by the new American Sovereign Wealth Fund, a government-owned investment portfolio that will be used to purchase assets and invest for future generations.
“He&#8217;s looking at the incredible violence and waste and human misery and then he&#8217;s looking at what this could be,” Friedman said. “When I was working on this, we always had one gaping issue when it came to Gaza, which is, how are we going to get Hamas out?”
Friedman pointed out that Hamas has a lot of support and was democratically elected in 2006, though the terror group has not held elections since. But despite this, Friedman believes that many Gazans would willingly relocate for the chance at a better life.
“From my direct conversations with lots of people who come from Gaza, many people would love to leave,” Friedman said, adding that although some people will say they rather fight to the media, “there aren’t a lot of people who really feel that way.”
He added that he knew of many Gazans who wanted to leave before Hamas’ war with Israel began after October 7.
“I got a pretty good sense from people living in Gaza how desperate they were to get out,” he said. “It&#8217;s a terrible place to live. It&#8217;s under the most repressive radical Islamic regime, Sharia law regime that people want to get out and there&#8217;s a lot of educated people in Gaza because, oddly enough, there&#8217;s so little to do there. There&#8217;s actually a lot of people reading books. And so it&#8217;s not completely an uneducated place, and they want to get out and they want to move on with their lives.”
He estimated that more than 90 percent of “non-Hamas terrorist sympathizers&#8221; would want to leave.
“I would say we&#8217;re talking about probably a million and a half people at least who would gladly get on a boat and go someplace else,” Friedman said.
But Friedman says even Gazans who want to stay have to go.
“Whatever the legal issues may be, whatever the moral issues may be, they can&#8217;t stay,” He said. “There&#8217;s no place for them to stay. There&#8217;s not a building there which wouldn&#8217;t be condemned by any zoning board in the United States. They’re all going to fall down.”
The key is getting people to recognize that it’s simply not practical to stay, according to Friedman.
“I just think that once you reach the conclusion that the people who live there now have to leave for their own safety, for their own health, they have to leave. Then it opens up a much wider focus on what could be.”
Friedman said the United States should continue to pressure Jordan and Egypt to take in Gazan refugees, pointing out that Jordan receives massive amounts of financial support from the United States.
A good solution, according to Friedman, would be relocating the Gazans to Egypt’s large and rural Sinai peninsula, which Israel returned to Egypt in 1979.
“Sinai has basically been neglected by Egypt since Israel handed it back, so I think there&#8217;s opportunities there,” Friedman said.
Alternatively, Friedman said the over 20 Muslim countries could consider taking in 20,000 to 30,000 Gazan refugees each.
Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and other key players have rejected Trump’s idea.
Hamas, the terrorist organization that raped, murdered, and kidnapped more than a thousand people in Israel on October 7, called Trump’s plan a “crime against humanity.”
Listen to the entire interview <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire">here</a>.
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Ambassador David Friedman: Make U.S.-Controlled Gaza A ‘Monument To The Failure Of Radical Islamism’

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David Friedman, former Ambassador to Israel for former President Donald Trump, explained how the Biden administration undid the work Trump had done to weaken the despotic Iranian regime and declared Vice President Kamala Harris doesn&#8217;t “really believe in the cause, in the ultimate justice of a Jewish state.”
“When we left office, Iran was on the verge of bankruptcy,” Friedman <a href="https://themedialine.org/top-stories/lifting-sanctions-on-iran-threatening-sanctions-on-israel-enabled-israel-hamas-war-former-ambassador-friedman-to-tml/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Media Line’s Felice Friedson. “Qasem Soleimani, who had been their chief architect of terror, had been eliminated by the United States, imposing great fear and concern on the part of the mullahs. And then Biden comes in.”
“Iran began to sell oil in large amounts to China, to Russia, two of America’s greatest adversaries. Large, specific amounts,” he noted. “There was like a $6 billion gift here, a $10 billion gift there. That seemed to make no sense. So what happened to Iran? Iran more than doubled its GDP in a couple of years by about $200 billion.”
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Pointing out Iran likely used the funds to support terrorist groups, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, all of which are at war with Israel, he continued by recalling how close the Trump administration had been to normalizing relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, saying, “I think we needed about six months more in our administration to get the Saudis on our side.” Friedman said Indonesia and “some of the secondary Gulf nations” had also been ready to normalize relations with the Jewish state.
“What people need to understand about the Abraham Accords is it wasn’t about showing these countries that we could move away from Israel,” he stated. “It was about showing these countries how closely we were aligned with Israel. That’s what made Israel the most attractive partner to the Gulf, that they were rock-solid aligned with the United States.”
“What I thought then, and I think what’s been proven to be the case, is that the US-Israel alliance, at its strongest, is the fulcrum upon which you can then expand peace throughout the Middle East,” he said. “As it weakens, those opportunities not only become less, but the potential for malign activity and mischief becomes greater.”
Speaking of the 2024 election, he said some Jews who support Kamala Harris “really just want to self-rationalize the idea that Kamala Harris will be better for Israel or better at fighting antisemitism than Trump. I don’t think there’s any intellectually honest way to get there.”
Friedman spoke of Trump’s 2019 <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-anti-semitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> that stated, “My Administration is committed to combating the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic incidents in the United States and around the world. Anti-Semitic incidents have increased since 2013, and students, in particular, continue to face anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on university and college campuses. &#8230; It shall be the policy of the executive branch to enforce Title VI against prohibited forms of discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism as vigorously as against all other forms of discrimination prohibited by Title VI.”
Friedman called the order an “enormously important” tool that President Joe Biden has not enforced.
“You can’t get tenure at a major American university if you’re pro-Israel,” Friedman asserted. “We’ve seen that over and over again. And this is the breeding ground for the leaders of America for the next 20, 30, 40 years.”
Saying he was “really nervous” about a world where Harris won the election, he continued, “Who’s going to deal with making sure Israel has the weapons it needs to defend itself? The only thing Kamala Harris has ever said that’s in favor of Israel is that they have the right to defend themselves. I’d like her to point to any country in the world that, after it’s been attacked, doesn’t have the right to defend itself. It’s a meaningless platitude. Where she goes with that, I don’t know. I don’t think she really believes in the cause, in the ultimate justice of a Jewish state.”

Trump’s Israel Ambassador Criticizes Jews Who Think Kamala Better On Israel, Fighting Anti-Semitism

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Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who helped his longtime friend former President Donald Trump implement the historic Abraham Accords and the move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, warned American Jews about the duplicity of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ words regarding the Jewish State in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.
“Let me be clear,” Harris started. “I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself, and I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself, because the people of Israel must never again face the horror that a terrorist organization called Hamas caused on Oct. 7, including unspeakable sexual violence and the massacre of young people at a music festival.”
Then she turned to the Palestinians, contending, “At the same time, what has happened in Gaza over the past 10 months is devastating. So many innocent lives lost. Desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, over and over again. The scale of suffering is heartbreaking.”
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“President Biden and I are working to end this war, such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom and self-determination,” she claimed.
“And know this: I will never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary to defend our forces and our interests against Iran and Iran-backed terrorists,” she blustered.
Friedman proceeded to parse Harris’ words so Jews would know what they could genuinely expect from Harris should she be elected. “To my friends who support Israel. I know that many of you are breathing a sigh of relief that @VP  offered some platitudes about for Israel. Please think again,” he warned on X, then delineated how deceptive Harris was with her rhetoric:
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I’ve lived these issues now for years and I can assure you that her words meant nothing. For example: 1) She says she will always support Israel’s right to defend itself — code word for America, not Israel, will determine what is the appropriate measure of defense and pressure Israel accordingly.  2) October 7 can never happen again — code word for America will force Israel into unwise concessions to the Palestinians on faulty speculation that this will deradicalize  the population and avoid further violence.  3) Iran will never go nuclear — code word for America will appease, cajole and beg Iran not to go nuclear but never impose serious pressure.  4) Palestinians are entitled to self-determination — code word for Jews living in Judea and Samaria, their Biblical homeland, should all be evicted in favor of Palestinians who have never had their own state and who represent an existential threat to Israel.
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“Her speech was about as reassuring as her husband’s waxing on about her brisket,” Friedman declared. “Remember, under her administration, (1) sanctions against Iran were not enforced and Iran gained $200B+ in GDP which it used to fund the current crisis, (2) funding to UNRWA was restored and used to fund Hamas, (3) Israel was denied essential weapons that it needed to defeat Hamas and an arms embargo was ‘under discussion,’ and (4) a Palestinian state was foolishly presented as the fix for October 7!”
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“We have to stop falling for the bagels and lox narratives that the Democrats have used repeatedly to defraud Jews into voting for them. Don’t fall for it. Be smarter!” he concluded.
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To my friends who support Israel. I know that many of you are breathing a sigh of relief that <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> offered some platitudes about for Israel. Please think again. I’ve lived these issues now for years and I can assure you that her words meant nothing. For example:
1) She says she…
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‘Her Words Mean Nothing … Don’t Fall For It’: Trump’s Ambassador To Israel Warns Jews About Kamala’s Fake Promises

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David Friedman, who served as U.S. ambassador to Israel under former President Donald Trump, unloaded on Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI) following her censure from the House on Tuesday.
Nearly two dozen House Democrats voted to censure Tlaib for &#8220;promoting false narratives&#8221; about the Hamas attacks on Israel and &#8220;calling for the destruction of the state of Israel,&#8221; the resolution said. The Democrat has accused Israel of &#8220;genocide&#8221; and defended the controversial slogan &#8220;from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,&#8221; which suggests Israel should not exist.
&#8220;Listen you virulent antisemite, just answer one question: Does Israel have a right to exist?&#8221; Friedman posed to Tlaib via X on Tuesday. &#8220;If you say no, leave Congress as a treasonous Jew hater. If you say yes, then explain how Israel can exist with Hamas on its border. You can’t. That’s why Israel is at war with Hamas.&#8221;
&#8220;Unfortunately there are casualties of war but Israel is doing all it can to avoid them,&#8221; the former ambassador added. &#8220;In contrast, Hamas is doing all it can to increase those casualties — dead Palestinian children are an integral component of its military strategy.&#8221;
&#8220;So either condemn Hamas or leave our country and join them,&#8221; Friedman closed.
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Listen you virulent antisemite, just answer one question: Does Israel have a right to exist? If you say no, leave Congress as a treasonous Jew hater. If you say yes, then explain how Israel can exist with Hamas on its border. You can’t. That’s why Israel is at war with Hamas.… <a href="https://t.co/jYj5j0UMzJ">https://t.co/jYj5j0UMzJ</a>
&mdash; David M Friedman (@DavidM_Friedman) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidM_Friedman/status/1721975589026898254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Tlaib took to X following the censure to complain that her colleagues were silencing her and accuse those who voted for the resolution of not caring about Palestinian lives.
“Rather than acknowledge the voice and perspective of the only Palestinian American in Congress, my colleagues have resorted to distorting my positions in resolutions filled with obvious lies,&#8221; she wrote, adding, &#8220;I will continue to call for a mutual ceasefire, for the release of hostages and those arbitrarily detained, for the immediate delivery of humanitarian aid, and for every American to be brought home. I will continue to work for a just and lasting peace that upholds the human rights and dignity of all people, centers peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, and ensures that no person, no child has to suffer or live in fear of violence.”
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Tlaib also said her &#8220;perspective&#8221; as the &#8220;only Palestinian American serving in Congress is needed here now more than ever.&#8221;
&#8220;Your &#8216;perspective&#8217; is to create an equivalency between ruthless murderers, rapists and baby killers and those confronting them,&#8221; Friedman reacted. &#8220;To be honest, that perspective really isn’t needed right now — it just adds insult to injury.&#8221;
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Your “perspective” is to create an equivalency between ruthless murderers, rapists and baby killers and those confronting them. To be honest, that perspective really isn’t needed right now — it just adds insult to injury. <a href="https://t.co/ZuPfqhwn95">https://t.co/ZuPfqhwn95</a>
&mdash; David M Friedman (@DavidM_Friedman) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidM_Friedman/status/1722033294299000845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (R-MI) speaks at a press conference calling for the expansion of the Supreme Court on July 18, 2022 in Washington, DC.

‘You Virulent Antisemite’: Trump-Era Ambassador To Israel Unloads On Rashida Tlaib Following Censure For Anti-Israel Comments

Trump Era Ambassador To Israel Unloads On Rashida Tlaib, Following Censure For Anti-Israel Comments 

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Rashida Tlaib

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) espoused an age-old anti-Semitic canard on Thursday after he accused the U.S. Ambassador to Israel on Thursday of having dual loyalty to America and the Jewish state.
&#8220;Dear [U.S. Ambassador]: You are an American. Your allegiance should be to America, not to a foreign power,&#8221; Lieu tweeted. &#8220;You should be defending the right of Americans to travel to other countries. If you don&#8217;t understand that, then you need to resign.&#8221;
Lieu&#8217;s remarks were in response to a statement Ambassador David Friedman issued in support of Israel&#8217;s decision to block two anti-Israel Congresswomen from visiting the country.
The Israeli government revealed a day earlier that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50657/israel-blocks-tlaib-and-omar-visiting-trump-agrees-molly-prince">it would deny entry</a> to progressive Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MN) over their advocacy of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to punish Israel by politically and economically starving the country.
The Israeli Knesset passed an anti-BDS law in 2017 that enables the government to block foreign activists from gaining entry to the country.
Friedman acknowledged that the BDS movement is &#8220;economic warfare designed to delegitimize and ultimately destroy the Jewish State&#8221; and therefore respects the country&#8217;s decision to deny the progressive duo entry into the country.
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<blockquote>Please read my attached statement with regard to the decision of the Government of Israel to deny entry to BDS activists, Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, in accordance with its national laws. <a href="https://t.co/q9M2N1uRkr">pic.twitter.com/q9M2N1uRkr</a>
— David M. Friedman (@USAmbIsrael) <a href="https://twitter.com/USAmbIsrael/status/1162038851680051200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Like the United States, Israel is a nation of laws,&#8221; Friedman wrote. &#8220;We support Israel&#8217;s application of its laws in this case.&#8221;
The California congressman echoed his accusation while appearing on &#8220;The Situation Room,&#8221; where he called on Friedman to step down from his position.
&#8220;It is outrageous that the U.S. government is working against having an American go visit a relative in Israel,&#8221; Lieu told CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer. &#8220;Ambassador Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, I think he should resign because he doesn’t understand that his allegiance is to America, not to a foreign power.&#8221;
After facing widespread blowback for accusing the ambassador of dual loyalty, Lieu deleted his original post.
&#8220;It has been brought to my attention that my prior tweet to [the U.S. Ambassador] raises dual loyalty allegations that have historically caused harm to the Jewish community,&#8221; Lieu said in response. &#8220;That is a legitimate concern. I am therefore deleting the tweet.&#8221;
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<blockquote>It has been brought to my attention that my prior tweet to <a href="https://twitter.com/USAmbIsrael?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USAmbIsrael</a> raises dual loyalty allegations that have historically caused harm to the Jewish community. That is a legitimate concern. I am therefore deleting the tweet.
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1162160159977639936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Lieu, however, refrained from deleting a host of other tweets that he sent to various non-Jewish Republicans where he made similar accusations.
&#8220;Hey Rep. Mo Brooks: A reminder that you are an American Member of Congress. Your allegiance should be to America,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1162129674295603200?s=20">Lieu wrote</a> to the Alabama congressman. &#8220;We are Americans first. You should be defending the right of Americans to travel to other countries. Get it?&#8221;
&#8220;Hey [Rep.] Steve Scalise: You are an American Member of Congress. Your allegiance should be to America, not to a foreign government,&#8221; he wrote in a<a href="https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1162140344185528320?s=20"> separate tweet</a>. &#8220;You should be defending the right of Americans to travel to other countries. If you don&#8217;t understand that, you should find another line of work.&#8221;
Lieu also thanked Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) for calling on Israel to &#8220;stand up to President Trump&#8221; and allow both Omar and Tlaib to visit the country.
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<blockquote>Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/justinamash?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@justinamash</a> for understanding that, as an American Member of Congress, your loyalty is to America, not to a foreign government. Thank you for defending the right of Americans, even though they disagree with you politically, to travel to other countries. <a href="https://t.co/xEnG2vgFhs">https://t.co/xEnG2vgFhs</a>
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1162148250486333440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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While the California congressman deleted his tweet to the Ambassador, he has yet to apologize for the accusation.

Ted Lieu

Democratic Lawmaker Makes Anti-Semitic Claim About U.S. Ambassador

There may trouble in paradise. After a smooth honeymoon period, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appear to be at odds over the legal status of Jerusalem.
Ahead of Trump&#8217;s first international trip as president to the Middle East, the Netanyahu government is reeling over comments made by administration officials.
The Jerusalem Post <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/PMO-refutes-Fox-reporters-claim-that-Netanyahu-asked-Trump-not-to-move-the-embassy-490806">reports</a>:
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The drama unfolded when a senior White House official said that the Western Wall was part of the West Bank and not part of Israel&#8217;s territory, as Channel 2 reported on Monday.
&#8220;The Western Wall is not in your territory,&#8221; the official reportedly said. 
It seems that the official was prompted to make the statement after members of Netanyahu&#8217;s team asked if Netanyahu could join Trump on the visit to the Western Wall and whether Israeli photographers could document the event, to which the Americans replied that the Western Wall was a &#8220;disputed territory.&#8221;
According to Channel 2, the same official told members of Netanyahu&#8217;s team that Trump&#8217;s visit to the Western Wall was a private visit and also added: &#8220;No way, why is this your business?&#8221;
The official allegedly went on to say: &#8220;This is not your territory but rather part of the West Bank.&#8221;
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According to <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-member-of-trump-team-said-to-tell-israelis-western-wall-is-not-your-territory/">The Times of Israel</a>, a senior official from the Netanyahu government has confirmed these reports.
While the official said that the Netanyahu government does not believe that the Trump team&#8217;s remarks reflect White House policy, Israeli officials were so upset over the U.S. delegations position on Jerusalem that a shouting match erupted between representatives of the two countries.
&#8220;These comments led to vociferous protests by the Israelis, with the discussion descending into shouting, and the Israelis reminding the U.S. team that the Western Wall and adjacent area &#8216;is territory holy to Israel,&#8217; reports The Times of Israel, adding:
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In a statement reported by Channel 2, an official at the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office said that &#8220;the comment that the Western Wall is part of the West Bank was received with astonishment&#8221; but that &#8220;Israel is certain that the comment contradicts President Trump&#8217;s policy as expressed in his fierce opposition to the latest UN Security Council resolution&#8221; &#8212; a reference to UNSC Resolution 2334 from last December, which rejected Israeli rights in Jerusalem and which Trump publicly opposed. &#8220;Israel has asked the US about this,&#8221; the PMO official said.
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As The Times of Israel notes, the spat between Israeli and U.S. officials occurred shortly after U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, a staunch supporter of the Jewish State, made a personal trip with his family to the Western Wall to say some prayers.
&#8220;We&#8217;re a bit tired, but we wanted to come straight to the holiest place in the entire Jewish world, the &#8216;Kotel Hama&#8217;aravi,&#8217; the Western Wall, so we straight came here,&#8221; Friedman <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-member-of-trump-team-said-to-tell-israelis-western-wall-is-not-your-territory/">said</a>, according to U.S. Embassy.
To wit, Friedman&#8217;s piety is grounded in two millennia of Jewish history. The Western Wall is considered to be on holy ground because of what lies behind it, the Temple Mount. Directly behind the Wall stood the First and Second Temples. The tunnel next to the visible part of the Wall which runs parallel to the Wall gives visitors the chance to stop and pray on the other side of the Wall from what was the Holy of Holies, the holiest place on earth for Jews, which could only be entered once a year by the High Priest on Yom Kippur. The Temple served as a religious and political capital to two Jewish Commonwealths and was the destination for a nationwide pilgrimage three times a year.
The Western Wall has witnessed some of history&#8217;s most powerful empires subjugate the Jewish people in Israel. While those empires have disappeared from history, the Wall still stands. Throughout all of this, the Jewish people have survived. The Western Wall is a living testament to the Jewish will to survive.
What makes these reports about the Trump teams behavior so disturbing is the fact that they play into the hands of Israel&#8217;s most hostile enemies.
 As The Daily Wire <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/9929/jew-hating-un-yeah-jews-have-nothing-do-temple-joshua-yasmeh">reported</a> last October, &#8220;UNESCO, the politicized &#8216;cultural&#8217; arm of the United Nations, passed a resolution designed to erase more than 3000 years of Jewish history. The unequivocally anti-Jewish resolution posits that Jews have no connection to the Temple Mount. Of course, the sick irony here is that it was the Jews that built the Temple Mount, a structure now increasingly occupied by colonialist Arab-Muslims.&#8221;
At the time, &#8220;[t]he United States led the charge against the resolution, followed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Holland, Lithuania and Estonia,&#8221; according to The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/9929/jew-hating-un-yeah-jews-have-nothing-do-temple-joshua-yasmeh">report</a>.
Adding insult to injury, the Trump team&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-member-of-trump-team-said-to-tell-israelis-western-wall-is-not-your-territory/">shocking</a>&#8221; behavior came as top officials telegraphed the administration&#8217;s apparent reconsideration of the president&#8217;s vow to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
&#8220;On Sunday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson shared the Trump administration&#8217;s renewed efforts to advance a peace initiative between the Israelis and Palestinians,&#8221; <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/16477/uh-oh-trump-pushing-another-middle-east-peace-deal-michael-qazvini">noted</a> The Daily Wire. &#8220;In an interview with NBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd, Tillerson appeared to walk back Trump&#8217;s vow to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, asserting that such a move would hinge on diplomatic talks moving forward.&#8221;
Tillerson&#8217;s remarks prompted immediate pushback by the Israeli prime minister himself.
&#8220;Israel&#8217;s position has been stated many times to the U.S. government and to the world,&#8221; Netanyahu <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-member-of-trump-team-said-to-tell-israelis-western-wall-is-not-your-territory/">asserted</a>. &#8220;Moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem &#8230; will advance [the peace process] by correcting a historical wrong and by shattering the Palestinian fantasy that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s trip to Israel and the West Bank, scheduled for May 22-23, is unlikely to mirror Netanyahu&#8217;s trip to Washington, D.C.
Laughs and smiles may now be replaced with shouts and frowns as Israeli officials come to terms with a polarized U.S. administration that doesn&#8217;t mean what it says.

Trump Administration To Israel: Western Wall Not Your Territory.  Israel Responds With ‘Astonishment’ And Shock.

Jerusalem

The Associated Press <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8f583a44fa2a4387a8580d5b4fa8abc5/trumps-ambassador-pick-well-known-figure-west-bank">wrote</a> a story about David Friedman, President Trump&#8217;s nominee for Ambassador to Israel, featuring an image of a man holding a Palestinian flag behind him. AP labeled him as a simple &#8220;protestor.&#8221; What it did not know was that the individual behind it is one of the most sinister individuals in the United States of America.
His name is <a href="https://canarymission.org/individuals/taher-herzallah/">Taher Herzallah</a>. He has a long record of anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and pro-Hamas activity. He first earned recognition for being a part of the infamous &#8220;Irvine 11,&#8221; a moniker describing the 11 students at University of California, Irvine who got <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/irvine-11-sentenced-probation-no-jail-time.html">arrested</a> for disrupting a speech by then Israeli ambassador and now Member of the Knesset Michael Oren. He was charged with disrupting a peaceful assembly.
After graduating from UC Irvine, Herzallah started working for an organization called American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) at first as a National Campus Coordinator. Today, he is the Associate Director of Outreach &amp; Grassroots Organizing. AMP <a href="http://www.ampalestine.org/">describes</a> itself as &#8220;a national education and grassroots-based organization, dedicated to educating the American public about Palestine and its rich cultural, historical and religious heritage.&#8221; In his capacity, Herzallah works alongside student-run chapters of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) to organize viciously anti-Israel activities across the United States, including mock checkpoints, apartheid walls, and anti-Semitic speakers.
AMP&#8217;s board of directors consists of a handful of members who were part of the now-defunct &#8220;Palestine Committee,&#8221; a group that the Investigative Project on Terrorism <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/4891/investigation-exposes-amp-leaders-ties-to-former">said</a> was &#8220;created by the Muslim Brotherhood to advance Hamas&#8217; agenda politically and financially in the United States.&#8221; The Palestine Committee was connected to the Holy Land Foundation, a charity that the Justice Department <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/case/65/us-v-holy-land-foundation">dismantled and exposed </a>as a financier to Hamas. The committee also <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/717.pdf">contained</a> representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group that represents itself as a civil rights group for the American Muslim community.
Given Herzallah&#8217;s employment with an organization connected to Hamas financiers and terrorist supporters, it makes sense that Herzallah has been quoted saying the <a href="http://blog.adl.org/international/calls-for-violence-israel-annual-american-muslims-for-palestine-conference-chicago">following</a>:
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Israelis have to be bombed, they are a threat to the legit­i­macy of Pales­tine, and it is wrong to main­tain the State of Israel. It is an ille­git­i­mate cre­ation born from colo­nial­ism and racism.
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He has also expressed support for creating an Islamic state and for radical Islamic terrorism at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A9pR_F0tPE&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=28s">AMP&#8217;s National Conference</a> in 2014:
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 What if, as Muslims we wanted to establish an Islamic State? What if as Muslims we wanted to use violent means to resist occupation? Is that wrong?
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He has also advocated for destroying Israel and replacing it with a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuJz43YVC3s&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=4365">Judenrein &#8220;Palestine&#8221;</a>:
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Many of us do not limit our discourse on a future Palestine based on the 1967 lines. Many of us are still talking about to this day, I fully free Palestine. A free historic Palestine.
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This is an excellent representation of the kinds of individuals protesting the next U.S. Ambassador to Israel. Herzallah does not want to see the existence of a Jewish state alongside a future Palestinian state like J Street claims to advocate for. He does not want to see the Jewish people live in their ancestral homeland according to international law. Herzallah is a terrorist apologist bankrolled by organizations run by former Hamas financiers teaching college students to hate Israel, the Jewish people, and to harass them on college campuses.
The Associated Press may see Herzallah as a simple &#8220;protestor&#8221;; Americans should see him as the deplorable human being working to undermine the values that the United States holds dear in the name of &#8220;social justice.&#8221;
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