Slander? Incite to Deadly Hatred? C'Mon, Y'all!

"Only a few days ago, we received their itinerary for their visit in Israel, which revealed that they planned a visit whose sole objective is to strengthen the boycott against us and deny Israel's legitimacy."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

"I would like to request admittance to Israel in order to visit my relatives, and specifically my grandmother, who is in her 90s and lives in Beit Ur al-Fouqa. This could be my last opportunity to see her."
"I will respect any restrictions and will not promote boycotts against Israel during my visit."

"Silencing me & treating me like a criminal is not what she [her grandmother] wants for me. It would kill a piece of me."
"I have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in–fighting against racism, oppression & injustice."
U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib

US Congresswoman Rashia Tlaib of Michigan. Photo: Reuters/Rebecca Cook

"Last night, she sent me a letter asking to allow her to visit her 90-year-old grandmother 'because this could be my last chance to meet her'."
"I approved it on humanitarian grounds, but it turns out that it was a provocation to embarrass Israel. Her hatred for Israel overcomes her love for her grandmother."
Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri  

Israeli Interior Minister spokesman Barak Seri provided a copy of the letter submitted by Tlaib

"We reject the decision of the Israeli occupation to ban the entry of Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib. This highlights how Israel antagonizes every individual or organization that support the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and rejects every attempt at explaining the reality of the Palestinian life under occupation."
Grandmother,Muftiya Tliab, uncle Ghassan Tlaib

Muftiya Tlaib, the maternal grandmother of US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, outside her home in Beit Ur al-Fouqa on Thursday

Where is it written that it is the inalienable right of slanderers and those who consort with terrorists -- supporting the genocidal agendas of Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad to destroy the State of Israel, the very state that is the hapless recipient of unwanted attention from two American Congresswomen whose anti-Semitism is well known -- to be entitled to visit the very place they work so assiduously to destroy? The expense of the projected trip to Israel by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and her equally heinous colleague Rep. Ilhan Omar was underwritten by a terrorist group.

Rashida Tlaib, left, and Ilhan Omar, right

For sheer blatant effrontery in the face of attempted conciliatory placation, by a nation that tries heroically to accommodate its detractors, leading Israel to reverse its decision to deny entry to the two women, the malicious turn-around by Congresswoman Tlaib to declare after all, despite her assurance that she would restrain her base vituperative tirades against Israel while visiting, that she had no intention of honouring that pledge once it had succeeded in persuading Israel to allow her entry.

Part of the two women's itinerary was to visit the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, the third holiest site in Islam, and the first most sacred site in Judaism. There, at the mosque, Muslims are permitted to pray on what Islam terms the Noble Sanctuary. Jews may 'visit' the site but are not permitted to pray there. Their very presence infuriates Muslims who react with violence. Should Jews be seen to be praying on such a visit an instant mob action materializes with stone-throwing and assaults.

So much for the claims of the two that Israel is an Apartheid State.

A Jewish state in fact where a considerable proportion of the population with citizenship is Muslim (21%), with Muslim legislators duly elected, and high office achieved. Other minorities within the greater population, from Druze to Christians and Baha'i, have all the rights of citizenship. Should, on the other hand, any Jew somehow find their way into a West Bank Palestinian town through an error of judgement they will be attacked, their very lives in danger.

There is an exclusionary law enacted in 2017 in Israel that supporters of BDS are not permitted entry to Israel. The BDS movement, after all, is meant to mount worldwide sanctions against trade with Israel, against academic exchanges, through boycott, divestment and sanctions. Some unions, some among the LGBTQ2 community, the international entertainment field, academic community and university student bodies actively support BDS. Its purpose is to delegitimize the State of Israel.

What country would absorb this kind of abuse in the name of human rights, when those for whom the destruction of Israel is meant to benefit, are in very fact, corrupt, tyrannical, undemocratic, misogynistic, violence-prone, refusing to accommodate themselves to the presence of Jews in a majority-Muslim landscape?