Anti-Semitic scandal: Muslim congresswoman said she is experiencing “peace” with thoughts of the Holocaust

Last week, Tlaib appeared in the Skullduggery podcast, which is coming out on Yahoo News. When she was asked about her support for a “one-way” solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, she gave a somewhat confused answer, writes “Voice of America".

“I feel something like appeasement,” she said. “I always tell people when I think about the Holocaust, about the tragedy of the Holocaust and about the fact that my ancestors, the Palestinians, have lost their land, some have lost their lives ... their livelihood, their human dignity, their very existence was destroyed, some have lost their passports. "

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“I mean, all this was done in the name of creating a safe haven for Jews, after the Holocaust, after the tragedy and the horrible persecution of Jews around the world at that time. “I like the fact that this, in many ways, was done thanks to my ancestors,” she continued. “But it was done in such a way that my ancestors lost their human dignity, they imposed it on them.”

“More than six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, there is nothing ‘calming’ about that fact,” Scalise said.

Trump joined them on Monday by tweeting that Tlaib's words were "terrible and extremely tactless."

“She clearly feels hatred for Israel and the Jewish people,” the president said.

Congressional Democratic leaders, on the contrary, rallied around the legislator and came to her defense. Nancy Pelosi's House of Representatives and majority leader Steni Hoyer tweeted that Trump and other Republicans should apologize to Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, an American of Palestinian descent from Michigan and one of two Muslim women in Congress.

Pelosi and Hoyer stated that Trump and Republican congressmen had taken Tlaib out of context.

“They have to apologize to member of the House of Representatives Tlaib and the American people for their misconceptions,” Pelosi tweeted.

Israeli ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, on Monday called Tlaib’s statements “deeply anti-Semitic and ignorant.”

“You need to take time to study the story before trying to rewrite it,” he said on Twitter.