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When we first saw the words “smear campaign against Rashida” we assumed it had something to do with that political cartoon of her pager exploding on her desk. Fellow member of the Hamas caucus Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez already bashed the cartoon as “disgusting” Islamophobia.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, though, has CNN in her sights for taking part in the smear campaign against Tlaib.

CNN reports in a fact-check:

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.

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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.”

“This is a disgusting charge of dual loyalty – Jews in America cannot fully uphold American ideals because we are fundamentally biased in favor of our religion over our citizenship,” Moss wrote.

What Tlaib actually said was, “It seems that the Attorney General decided if the issue was Palestine, she was going to treat it differently, and that alone speaks volumes about possible biases within the agency she runs.”

Tlaib was referring to anti-Palestinian attitudes.  

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Tlaib is an anti-Semite and terrorist sympathizer who deserves to be smeared.

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CNN’s fact-check concludes that Tlaib did not say Nessel charged pro-Palestinian protesters because she’s Jewish — it comes to her defense. Which it shouldn’t bother to.

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