Rashi­da Tlaib and Ilhan Omar con­demn ‘anti-Pales­tin­ian hate’ in US pol­i­tics

Reps. Rashi­da Tlaib (D‑MI) and Ilhan Omar (D‑MN) released a joint state­ment con­demn­ing anti-Pales­tin­ian sen­ti­ment in U.S. pol­i­tics.
Along with the third Mus­lim in Con­gress, Andre Car­son (D‑IN), the two con­demned the “grow­ing tide of big­ot­ed anti-Mus­lim, anti-Arab and anti-Pales­tin­ian hate per­vad­ing our pol­i­tics.” The state­ment was aimed at Rep. Ryan Zinke’s (R‑MO) recent res­o­lu­tion to bar immi­grants from Pales­tin­ian ter­ri­to­ries from enter­ing the Unit­ed States and to revoke the visas of oth­ers. The state­ment decried the move as “fas­cism and pure big­otry.”
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“Let’s be clear: using the full pow­er of the state to tar­get and per­se­cute a par­tic­u­lar eth­nic group or nation­al­i­ty is fas­cism and pure big­otry,” the state­ment went.
It added, “This leg­is­la­tion — by a for­mer cab­i­net offi­cial no less — direct­ly vio­lates the U.S. …