Last month saw Rep. Rashida Tlaib continue her antisemitic quest against Israel by leading a failed attack on U.S. aid funding for the Israeli Iron Dome defensive system. Eight other members of the House joined with Tlaib in voting against aid: seven other members of “the Squad” and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, the ideologically blinkered libertarian from Kentucky. (Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who acted as the go-between for the Squad with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in opposing the vote, at the last minute cowardly switched her “no” vote on the funding to “present.”)
“We must stop enabling Israel’s human rights abuses and apartheid government,” Tlaib ludicrously wrote of the vote. Setting aside whether Israel constitutes an “apartheid government” as Tlaib claims (it doesn’t), her position that funding the Iron Dome somehow aids human rights abuses is moronic, backward, and demonstrably false. Instead, as our own Seth Mandel explained on Twitter, “The thing about Iron Dome is that as a purely defensive tool that Israel uses instead of a counteroffensive, it saves not only the lives of the kindergarten children targeted by Hamas but also of Palestinians in Gaza.”
