Published: 20 August 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
By barring two congresswomen, Trump and Netanyahu set a trap for Democrats (New Yorker)
BERNARD AVISHAI: For those unable to decide whether Donald Trump acts as a shrewd political tactician or with mere crude improvisation, the tweet-dare that he sent to Benjamin Netanyahu last Thursday will not settle the matter.
But in depicting [Tlaib and Omar] as anti-Semites and thus prompting the Netanyahu government to bar their entry to Israel - and causing virtually the entire Democratic caucus to rally to their defence - Trump seems to have launched a plot against America that even Philip Roth could not conceive
Trump and Netanyahu are playing a bigoted game of chicken (Guardian)
EMMA GOLDBERG: The US president feigns concern for Jews to justify bullying Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. Israel is happy to play along
If you think Trump is helping Israel, you’re a fool (Political Wire/NYT)
THOMAS FRIEDMAN: By barring representatives Omar and Tlaib, Netanyahu made the president happy. But he has poisoned relations with America
The whole world now witnessed Trump and Netanyahu’s racist, annexationist synergy (Haaretz)
SAEB EREKAT: Netanyahu was not forced by the US president to ban Reps Tlaib and Omar. He heads a racist ideology that dehumanises Palestinians, a worldview shared by the Trump administration
Barring Tlaib and Omar, Israel inexcusably abandons the diplomatic battlefield (Times of Israel)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/barring-tlaib-and-omar-israel-inexcusably-abandons-the-diplomatic-battlefield/
DAVID HOROVITZ: Closing our doors to these pernicious critics gives them a clear victory and denies us the opportunity to even make our case - as Netanyahu should know best of all
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Tlaib attends Shabbat event with pro-BDS group after rejecting West Bank visit (Times of Israel)
Amid Hebrew singing in Detroit park with sister group of Jewish Voice for Peace, congresswoman thanks supporters for ‘uplifting peace, love and justice’
Tlaib mourns cancelled West Bank trip with Jewish supporters in Detroit (Haaretz)
Members of Jewish Voice for Peace organised a Shabbat service and dinner after Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were barred from visiting the West Bank
Photo: Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they pose in the Rose Garden at the White House in April (Reuters/Leah Ellis)
