Congresswoman Rejects Israeli Visit as Effort to ‘Silence’ Her
- ‘It would kill a piece of me,’ Rashida Tlaib says of offer
- Israel had denied visit by Tlaib, another Muslim U.S. lawmaker
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Rashida Tlaib, the Democratic U.S. House member barred by Israel because of her support of a boycott, said she is rejecting the country’s new offer to let her visit her grandmother in the West Bank, saying the terms are too restrictive.
“Silencing me & treating me like a criminal is not what she 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,” the Michigan lawmaker said Friday on Twitter.