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Rashida Tlaib Ignites New Controversy over Anti-Semitism
Over the weekend, Yahoo! News published a new episode of the “Skullduggery” podcast, an interview with Representative Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.). After she was asked about her support for a “one-state solution” to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, Tlaib noted that the U.S. had recently marked Holocaust Remembrance Day and said she was “humbled” by the fact that her ancestors suffered to create a new home for the Jewish people.
More from Tlaib’s remarks:
There’s, you know, there’s a kind of a calming feeling, I always tell folks, when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence, in many ways, had been wiped ...