Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib has offered no comment or apology for following an anti-Semitic Instagram page that called Jews vermin and “unwanted” people.
It seems Rep. Ilhan Omar is not the only one making anti-Semitic headlines as her Democrat colleague from Michigan was called out by Ashley Rae Goldenberg reporting for Capital Research Center on her following the account, “free.palestine.1948,” and then quietly unfollowing the page which frequently shares “blatantly anti-Semitic posts and 9/11 conspiracy theories.”
Goldenberg’s report revealed that the “free.palestine.1948″ Instagram page has posted images depicting Jews as rats, vampires and Nazis, claiming Jews plotted the 9/11 attacks and called Jews “[n]otorious people unwanted everywhere.”
My exclusive on @RashidaTlaib. You know how we’re talking about anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party lately? Check out the images posted by an Instagram account Rashida Tlaib follows from her official Instagram page. My story (and more posts) here: https://t.co/B6LxgJUo6T pic.twitter.com/MCITEoEaql
— Ashley Rae Goldenberg (@Communism_Kills) March 8, 2019
Tlaib, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, was no sooner sworn into office in January than she made headlines for her profane declaration about impeaching President Trump. Her positions on Israel and ties to anti-Israel figures have come under scrutiny, revealing deeper anti-Semitic connections than was previously known about the freshman congresswoman.
A member of the Facebook group “Palestinian American Congress,” Tlaib had under 1,000 users that she followed on her verified Instagram account, with the “free.palestine.1948” page being one of them.
This is pretty bad. It isn’t one of those situations where her account mass follows tens of thousands. She only has 1k follows, so this was likely an intentional choice.https://t.co/A4bz51YTxR
— Nick Pappas (@NickAPappas) March 10, 2019
According to Goldenberg:
Far from merely being anti-Israel and anti-Zionist, the Instagram account often shares images attacking Jews for being Jewish.
The account shared Nazi-inspired propaganda in July 2014. Similar to how the Nazis compared Jews to rats, the free.palestine.1948 account shared an image of a rat inside of the Israeli flag and called the rat “the real plague.” When confronted about the anti-Semitic imagery, the account responded, “Haha make me laugh f*ck you and f*ck israhell […] you wankers will never like the truth.”
Tlaib’s office “did not respond to multiple requests for comment,” Goldenberg noted but reported that following the story’s publication last Friday, the Democratic lawmaker “quietly unfollowed the account and stealthily edited her Instagram bio to say she does not support ‘all’ of the posts of the accounts she chooses to follow.”
??? Rashida Tlaib (@rashidatlaib)’s office told me that they have “no comment” on her following an anti-Semitic Instagram account, then unfollowing it and changing her bio to say she doesn’t endorse “all” posts of accounts she follows. No apology ???https://t.co/A9czVptPxG
— Ashley Rae Goldenberg (@Communism_Kills) March 11, 2019
The congresswoman’s communications director reportedly told the publication they had “no comment” on the matter.
? Rashida Tlaib’s new Instagram bio says “Note: Following someone or group does not mean I endorse all of their posts.” So which posts by the anti-Semitic free.palestine.1949 did she endorse at the time she followed it? I asked and got “no comment.” ?https://t.co/A9czVptPxG
— Ashley Rae Goldenberg (@Communism_Kills) March 11, 2019
1. Rashida Tlaib’s office (@RashidaTlaib) did not offer an apology for following the anti-Semitic page that called Jews vermin and “unwanted” people.
2. They did not say it was a mistake.
3. They said they had “no comment.”https://t.co/A9czVptPxG— Ashley Rae Goldenberg (@Communism_Kills) March 11, 2019
Goldenberg pointed out that there was no apology, but rather a simple “no comment.”
Her office could have said she was sorry, or it was an accident, or she just doesn’t follow her social media pages that often. Instead, they said they had no comment on the matter.
— Ashley Rae Goldenberg (@Communism_Kills) March 11, 2019
“Tlaib’s new Instagram bio begs the question: which posts does Tlaib endorse? Considering she was, at one time, following the account, it appears, using her logic, she had to endorse at least some of the account’s posts,” Goldenberg asked in her follow up report for the Capital Research Center.
Since now it’s Monday maybe someone at a major news outlet will finally write on this and how Rashida Tlaib’s office is quietly hoping it will go away while refusing to directly address it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I mean, Rashida essentially admitted to endorsing some of their posts. https://t.co/8Co8JxZOkr
— Ashley Rae Goldenberg (@Communism_Kills) March 11, 2019
ICYMI: Here are some of the pics the account posted. This isn’t mere anti-Zionism or anti-Israel sentiment. Some of these posts are very recent. Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) followed the account until this weekend, and her staff has “no comment” about it. https://t.co/A9czVptPxG pic.twitter.com/8tR4puyHrc
— Ashley Rae Goldenberg (@Communism_Kills) March 11, 2019
Goldenberg continued to address the situation on her Twitter account, posting multiple tweets in response to comments and to elaborate on the anti-Semitic content of the Instagram page Tlaib was following.
This is what Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) was doing when her staff said they had no comment on her having followed an anti-Semitic page. https://t.co/A9czVptPxG pic.twitter.com/ccvLMO6Ekl
— Ashley Rae Goldenberg (@Communism_Kills) March 12, 2019
There was no “bait and switch.” I went through the entire account, back to the very first post. It was anti-Jewish from the beginning. Stop trying to apologize for this. https://t.co/D8pRuFPdLz
— Ashley Rae Goldenberg (@Communism_Kills) March 11, 2019
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