The problem with Tlaib's whataboutism is that she claims Israelis were sexually violent with Palestinians and then claims examples of non sexual abuse of Palestinians under arrest (which is bad). There may have been people who felt the bill was about rape and sexual violence yet she wanted to include all abuse of people. The bill said hold accountable all perpetrators of sexual violence..... ALL PERPETRATORS... Everytime women want their sexual abuse and rape to be globally criminalized and stopped, someone else has to jump in and say "what about the...." She just wanted to grab some attention because she could have stood up and said she supports the bill but also wants to acknowledge the abuse of Palestinians etc..
Well, there is an argument to be made about emasculating men through sexual humiliation. It doesn't reach Abu Grahib levels but I see what she's claiming there. You may have missed she referenced an article...I didn't click but if it's the one I'm thinking of, it was an expose of Israel sexually abusing women in detention (as many Palis are in prison on bogus charges). Curiously enough, same week as that article dropped, Israel started making some huge hoopla about the world not condemning sexual violence in Oct 7.....since the world was still waiting on some facts.
ok, yeah, it was far more egregious than she describes: https://archive.ph/IJjhp Oct21 The abuse lasted almost a whole day. Soldiers and settlers detained and handcuffed three Palestinians from the West Bank village Wadi as-Seeq, and for hours, according to the Palestinians, they were severely beaten, stripped to their underwear, and photographed handcuffed, in their underwear. Their captors urinated on two of them and extinguished burning cigarettes on them. There was even an attempt to penetrate one of them with an object. This is the accounts of the other one I had read about: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0eHOP_M73L/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
Just the Squad defending the killing of police officers. ‘Squad’ member Jamaal Bowman once put a convicted cop killer up on a middle school’s ‘Wall of Honor’ — and stands by move https://nypost.com/2024/02/25/us-ne...dle-schools-wall-of-honor-and-stands-by-move/ US Rep. Jamaal Bowman once put a fugitive convicted cop killer on a Bronx middle school’s “Wall of Honor” while he worked there as principal — and now he’s standing by the move. The Democrat member of Congress’ “Squad” was recently questioned about honoring Joanne Chesimard aka Assata Shakur — a black militant on the FBI Most Wanted list who was convicted with two others in the execution-style slaying of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973 before she escaped jail and fled to Cuba. “Who are you to tell anyone on how they should engage in their own history and the people in their history?” Bowman said at a Feb. 21 Yonkers Third Precinct Community Council meeting. Bowman was responding to a question from Marty Dolan, one of two Democrats challenging the two-term incumbent in a party primary this year, who asked the congressman whether he thought it was a mistake “to teach the children in your school that a cop killer should be on ‘The Wall of Heroes'” at the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action. “My school included black and Latino students,” Bowman, who is black, railed to Dolan, who is white. “We tried to teach as much of our black and Latino history as possible — the good, the bad and the ugly.” Bowman, who represents part of the Bronx and Westchester County in New York’s 16th congressional district, noted that Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the US and a co-signer of the Declaration of Independence, was a slaveholder. When Dolan asked if Bowman refused to denounce the inclusion, the incumbent doubled down. “I will refuse to denounce,” Bowman said. “I’m answering the question the way I want to answer it. We, our kids in my school learned the history of a people off the walls — and many other people and so, that’s what we did. Period.” Part of the extremist group the Black Liberation Army, Chesimard was one of three people accused in a May 2, 1973 shooting that broke out when they were stopped in their vehicle for a motor vehicle violation on the Jersey Turnpike. A second trooper was also wounded in the shooting. At the time, Chesimard was wanted for her role in several other felonies, including a bank robbery. Chesimard, was found guilty of first degree murder, but escaped from a Clinton, New Jersey prison on Nov. 2, 1979 and resurfaced in Cuba, where she is still believed to be residing. She is on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, which is offering a $1 million reward for her return. After Bowman’s fiery defense of Shakur at the hearing, a woman then followed up Dolan’s question. “What did [Assata Shakur] accomplish that would put her in the same realm as Thomas Jefferson?” Bowman noted that Chesimard was a member of the Black Panther Party, which he said did some good things. “You can have critiques of this person but there are critiques of many American heroes that we have,” the congressman said. Dolan, 66, a financial strategic adviser, on Sunday blasted Bowman’s defense of “using taxpayer dollars to teach our kids to glorify a cop killer.” Aside from Dolan, Bowman faces a spirited primary challenge from Westchester County Executive George Latimer, who has the backing of Jewish activists including the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, who denounce what they view as Bowman’s anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian positions. Chesimard isn’t the only controversial figure who was included in Bowman’s schools’ Hall of Honor. Black militant Mutulu Shakur — the stepfather of the late rapper Tupac Shakur — who served a lengthy prison sentence for armed robberies and died last July year of cancer after being released — was also honored, as was former Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.), an antisemitic conspiracy theorist, according to the Huffington Post, which first reported on the wall. The Wall of Honor is just the latest controversy from the past dogging Bowman. He also recently came under fire for reposting outlandish Sept. 11, 2001 conspiracy theories on his blog, which he later condemned. Bowman last year also pleaded guilty to one count of falsely pulling a fire alarm in the Cannon Office Building in DC ahead of a congressional vote to avert a partial government shutdown. He paid a $1,000 fine but denied he intended to disrupt the proceedings.
They should do the country a favor and stayed in Cuba with their socialist ilk. Two far-left House lawmakers went on a secret trip to Cuba, drawing outrage from Republicans https://nypost.com/2024/02/29/us-ne...n-a-secret-trip-to-cuba-angering-republicans/ Progressive Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) traveled to Cuba last week — a secret trip that has outraged several Republican lawmakers. Jayapal, the chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and Omar, the deputy chairwoman, led a delegation of about a dozen people to the communist island, according to the Miami Herald. A staffer from Rep. Barbara Lee’s (D-Calif.) office was also among those on the trip, according to the outlet, which notes that the travel was not disclosed by the liberal lawmakers beforehand or reported on in Cuban state media. “Representatives Jayapal and Omar traveled to Cuba last week, where they met with people from across Cuban civil society and government officials to discuss human rights and the U.S.-Cuba bilateral relationship,” a spokesperson for the progressive caucus told the Miami Herald. The mysterious trip, which took place during a week when the House was in recess, also overlapped with a visit to Havana by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who traveled to the island as part of a Latin American tour that included stops in Venezuela and Brazil. Cuba has been under US embargo for more than 60 years. Jayapal and Omar, both critics of the embargo, have backed bills seeking to normalize US relations with Havana. The pair were also among 40 House Democrats that voted against a resolution in support of peaceful demonstrations against the island’s communist government in 2021. Several Republican lawmakers were not pleased when they learned of the trip. “All members of the media should refer to the Progressive Caucus by their more accurate name — the Congressional Communist Sympathizing Caucus,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) wrote on X. “It’s outrageous that Members of Congress would visit a country that jails, abuses, and murders their citizens and supports Iran, Russia and Communist China against our interests,” she added. “Perhaps their time would be better spent listening to the Cubans crossing our southern border & risking their lives on makeshift rafts to find out why they’re fleeing Communism.” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.), a Cuban exile, suggested that the trip was aimed at appeasing the communist regime. “The murderous dictatorship in Cuba must be defeated — not appeased,” Gimenez tweeted. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the son of Cuban immigrants, slammed the trip as well. “Pro-Hamas members of marxist congressional squad just returned from a secret visit with anti-American dictatorship in Cuba,” he tweeted. Last month, Jayapal called on the Biden administration to remove Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism. “Being on this list has made it nearly impossible for Cuba to do international business, driving an economic downturn that has led residents to flee the country,” she wrote on X. “It’s time to re-engage with Cuba.”
Squad’s lesson in Cuban socialism didn’t last long enough Trip wasn't enough time for the Squad to learn how socialist Cuba locks up and kills political opponents https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/squads-lesson-cuban-socialism-didnt-last-long-enough
AIPAC needs to sprinkle that 100M cash elsewhere. NYCompost is only read by redhats, not the voters they want to sway to oust squad members. this is bottom of the barrel scraping.
The sooner The Squad disappears, the better. Nothing would be better for America than seeing this progressive group of clowns in the rear view mirror. Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Squad’ dying? https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/is-the-squad-dying-aoc/
Jewish activists blast 'Squad' Dem for 'appalling' defense of Farrakhan mural: 'Lack of fitness to lead' One NYC Jewish activist called on Rep. Jamaal Bowman to 'resign immediately' https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jewish-activists-blast-squad-dem-appalling-defense-farrakhan-mural