Jewish Democrat Thrown Out of Tlaib Event for Questioning Her Anti-Semitism
Former New York State Democrat Assemblyman Dov Hikind thrown from 'Muslims4Peace'
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A Jewish Democrat was thrown out of an event after he questioned Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MN) on her notorious history of anti-Semitism.
Former New York State Democrat Assemblyman Dov Hikind was forcibly removed from "Muslims4Peace" over the weekend when he stood up to ask Tlaib about her extensive history of anti-Semitic rhetoric while she was speaking at the event.
Tlaib was a guest speaker at Sunday's event, hosted by "Muslims4Peace" at Rutgers University, titled: “A Global Crisis: Refugees, Migrants, and Asylum Seekers – Lessons from the Prophet Muhammad”
Hikind says Tlaib was introduced by the head presenter for Muslims4Peace who said, “I don’t agree with her politically, but we should hear what she has to say.”
“As [Tlaib] started to speak about ‘showing up for allies,’ I decided it was time to take her to task for her recent promotion of an anti-Jewish blood libel,” Hikind recalled.
“I stood up and asked her ‘what about your anti-Semitism? What about your spreading of a blood libel?'”
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“And before I could finish my question, one man jumped at me and grabbed me,” Hikind told The Daily Wire.
“I warned him to immediately get his hands off and he complied.
"The police were waiting on the sidelines and jumped in a second later and forcibly removed me.
"They did their job, and I have no qualms with them.
"But Rashida couldn’t answer me to my face.”
Police just ejected me from an event of @Muslims4Peace at @RutgersU which was a fine event until @RashidaTlaib showed up. I challenged her about her antisemitism and spreading of an anti-Jewish blood libel! She had no answer for me.
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) February 9, 2020
They will never silence us!
Cc @IlhanMN pic.twitter.com/vyMGCGGxlX
"I stood ten feet away from her, and all she could do was play the victim," Hikind continued.
"I was told that after I was escorted out she claimed that my question was part of a pattern of discrimination against people like her grandmother.
"In reality, she’s a shameless anti-Semite who hides her hate behind the guise of victimhood although she’s the only one consistently guilty of perpetuating hate.
"She’s the one guilty of promoting libelous lies that lead directly to violence!
"At the end of it all, Rashida showed us again that she has no backbone and has no real defense or justification for her abhorrent statements.”
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Hikind said that he challenged her because “if we tolerate an anti-Semite on a college campus with one of the largest Jewish student populations in the country, allowing her to spew her vile hatred unopposed, then we are losing the battle against antisemitism.
"Then we’re sending the wrong message to our Jewish students that hateful lies can flow freely within the walls of academia.
"Instead, we showed the contrary.
"That just as she has the right to her hate speech, we have the same right, but more so an obligation, to counter it on the spot.”
Hikind calling out Tlaib for the false blood libel accusation that she promoted stemmed from a tweet from a Palestinian official that she retweeted last month who responded to the death of a Palestinian boy by writing, “The heart just shatters. The pain is unbearable. No words.”
Three layers of what for now appears to be a blood libel. From a faceless activist to a Palestinian government official to a US Congresswoman to a global audience of 898,000 followers. pic.twitter.com/spGwJAp5RT
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) January 25, 2020
The official was commenting on a tweet that falsely stated: “KIDNAPPED & EXECUTED 7 year old #Palestinian child Qusai was kidnapped by a Herd of violent #Israeli settlers, assaulted & thrown in a water well was found this morning frozen to death in Beit Hanina, #Jerusalem after #Israeli forces assaulted search teams.”
Rashida Tlaib promoted all of it to her over 900,000 Twitter and never apologized despite repeated calls to do so.
