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May 16, 2019

Rashida Tlaib’s Mistruths Depend on the Myth That Israel Was a Consolation Prize for the Holocaust

Overlooking the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel.

In explaining the “calming feeling” produced within her by reflection on the Holocaust, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib invoked the now-common canard that Palestinian Arabs suffered as a result of the annihilation of European Jewry. Had there been no Holocaust, the reasoning goes, Jews would not have been allowed to form a state in their historic homeland. Robert Rozett comments on a crucial aspect of her distortion of history:

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