Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democratic state lawmaker, and some news agencies are falsely claiming that U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Nessel’s office only filed charges against pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Michigan because she’s Jewish.
The spurious claims stem from an interview that Tlaib did with Metro Times on Sept. 13. Tlaib, who was born in Detroit to Palestinian immigrants and is the only Palestinian American member of Congress, argued the charges were an unjust and heavy-handed response to peaceful civil disobedience.
Tlaib pointed out that Nessel, who has been in office since January 2019, has not filed charges against protesters opposed to racism, police brutality, water shutoffs, and environmental contamination.
Tlaib never once mentioned Nessel’s religion or Judaism. But Metro Times pointed out in the story that Nessel is Jewish, and that appears to be the spark that led to the false claims.
Shortly after the article was published, state Sen. Jeremy Moss, a Democrat who is Jewish, posted a screenshot of the story on X and claimed that Tlaib’s response was an attempt “to divide us into ‘good’ Jews she accepts & bad Jews.”
On Sunday, CNN host Jake Tapper followed up with a segment in which he falsely claimed that Tlaib said Nessel only filed the charges “because she’s Jewish and the protesters are not.” Tapper made the statement while interviewing Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and tried to get her to weigh in on his false claim.
Conveniently telling everyone your agenda with “bLuE mAgA”
“Yes it would be impossible for a person who cares about truth to not defend it against lies. You wouldn’t understand”
LMAO. Please, keep making an absolute fool of yourself and somehow trying to gaslight actual free thinkers into ignoring the hilarious contradiction between your beliefs and your words.
Sure sounds like MAGA to me. Pretty fucking ironic how the NPCs spouting horseshoe theory about the left were actually the ones doing it all along.
I guess every accusation with you people is just another confession, and you just keep proving it over and over.
Oh look, yet another connection between Blue MAGA and MAGA.
Accelerationists don’t matter to me except to call them out. I think you’re doing that to yourself though, and I tire of arguing with people like that so whatever
Stop acting like liberal Trumpers and the name wouldn’t mean anything. “Blue MAGA” didn’t come from nowhere. The “agenda” you’re speaking of is holding up a mirror to you and the near-entirety of your party and its hypocrisy and dishonesty, and its corporate arms-dealer backers in the Miliary-Industrial-Media-complex, and uncritical upscale-college-liberal footsoldiers and the tantrums you throw to avoid confronting uncomfortable realities
Yes I understand the intentional lie you’re abbreviating.