The star of David and candle stands on the table on a black background in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and genocide.

Rashida Tlaib’s Hate Speech Enablers

January 28, 2020 — Media, People, Politics

World leaders on Monday marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp with calls warning against the rise of global antisemitism. A day earlier, Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib promoted a false “blood libel” claim that Jews murdered a Palestinian child in Jerusalem. Jewish leaders demanded that Tlaib apologize. Here’s why I’m glad she didn’t.

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The “Racist” Attacks on Ilan Omar and Rashida Tlaib

July 21, 2019 — Politics

Margaret Wente, a U.S.-born columnist for Canada’s Globe and Mail, wrote a commentary in February pondering how to prevent the populist movement overtaking the politics of her adopted country the way it has in the U.S. and much of Europe.  Canada would seem fertile ground for populism: Twenty percent of…

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