Radical House Democrat Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) is facing intense blowback after calling Israel an “apartheid state” on Twitter.
Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Gilad Erdan immediately slammed Rep. Tlaib's remarks.
“Tlaib's ignorance and hatred toward the Jewish people and the State of Israel know no bounds,” Erdan told Fox News Digital.
On Monday, Tlaib took to social media to attack House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for arguing that the United States and Israel have a “special relationship.” On Twitter, Tlaib argued that Israel was responsible for the “ethnic cleansing” of Arab peoples.
“Speaker McCarthy wants to rewrite history but the apartheid state of Israel was born out of violence and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians,” Tlaib said. “75 years later, the Nakba continues to this day.”
Erdan pushed back and asserted that the opposite was true, noting that it was Arabs who rejected a United Nations resolution to establish Israel.
“The facts are clear: the Arabs rejected the U.N.'s resolution to establish a Jewish state and started a war to annihilate the Jews in Israel,” Erdan said. “Since then, for the past 75 years, the Palestinians are bringing upon themselves a Nakba by continuing to incite hate and terrorism and rejecting every peace plan.”
The Israeli diplomat also accused the “Squad” member of trying to rewrite history and push “antisemitic lies.”
“Tlaib is rewriting history and her antisemitic lies ignore the fact that the only ethnic cleansing took place against the 850,000 Jews who were expelled from Arab countries following Israel's establishment,” he said.
The Tlaib tweet was also the subject of an instant fact check by Twitter.
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