Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said that Israel is to blame for the hospital explosion in Gaza despite Israel denying fault.

Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib refused to apologize Wednesday for saying on Tuesday that Israel is to blame for the hospital explosion that day in Gaza, an accusation that sparked political backlash against her from Republicans as Israel denies fault.

Tlaib joined thousands of protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza during a solidarity rally hosted by the left-leaning group Jewish Voice for Peace at the National Mall. She was visibly emotional, at times pausing her speech to openly weep and criticizing lawmakers who have not backed a ceasefire resolution.

  • BlanketsWithSmallpox
    -12•1 year ago

    Defense does not necessitate apartheid or ethnic cleansing.

    Where exactly has Israel done this recently? Attacking someone across your border because they’re killing people near yours is war.

    See, Ukraine attacking places inside Russia lol. Justifiably so.

    • @PizzaMan
      20•1 year ago

      Where exactly has Israel done this recently?

      They’ve been doing it for decades.

      https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution

      As for the more recent:

      https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/13/civilians-trapped-in-gaza-cant-escape-israels-siege.html

      Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, and religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making a region ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal, extermination, deportation or population transfer, it also includes indirect methods aimed at forced migration by coercing the victim group to flee and preventing its return, such as murder, rape, and property destruction.[3][4][5] It constitutes a crime against humanity and may also fall under the Genocide Convention, even as ethnic cleansing has no legal definition under international criminal law

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

      Attacking someone across your border because they’re killing people near yours is war.

      Civilians are getting killed and forced out of their homes, all based on race. It’s an apartheid, and an ethnic cleansing.

      • Khalic
        -5•1 year ago

        The apartheid accusation is solid, nothing to say here.

        But ethnic cleansing?

        There are 2 million arab israeli citizens… not very homogenous. That’s almost 1 in 5 citizens.

        • @PizzaMan
          7•1 year ago

          The degree to which a nation is homogeneous is not the qualifying factor for whether an action is considered ethnic cleansing. It is instead the effect, and the effect of forcing Palestinians out of their homes, out of Gaza, counts as ethnic cleansing.

          It’s also not just based on race, it’s also got to do with religion.

            • @PizzaMan
              7•1 year ago

              Actually, the only thing you can really call “apartheid” in Israel…

              That’s not true.

              https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution

              You might complain about the property decisions from decades before that

              Yeah. Those decisions are exactly what people are talking about when people call it apartheid. And those decisions have never stopped, it’s been happening ever since the Israeli-Palistinian conflict started.

              When somebody comes in, says they own your home, and then try to kick you out because of your race/religion, that is apartheid.

              but the tenants agreed to the rent terms in the early 90s,

              “Agreed” is a strong word to use when the alternative is homelessness.

              so framing this as “ethnic cleansing” is pretty nuts.

              It is the intentional homogenization of a region, dispelling people from their homes that they’ve lived in since their birth. That is by definition ethnic cleansing.

                • @SoleInvictus
                  1•1 year ago

                  Man, someone here has been guzzling propaganda and ignoring tons of evidence, much of it on video, to the contrary. But yes, tell us more about how Israel’s many broken agreements to not expand colonists into Palestinian territory is “just protecting their border”.

    • @kaffieneEnglish
      0•1 year ago

      Gaza is basically an open air prison. Do they control their own borders?