Click here to demand that CNN and Josh Kraushaar issue a retraction and apologize for their false reporting on Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Michigan’s Attorney General Dana Nessel has been considered somewhat progressive, but she’s now prosecuting pro-Palestinian encampment protesters. In discussing the prosecutions in an interview with Detroit Metro Times, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib criticized Nessel and her office for prosecuting the activists possibly as a result of anti-Palestinian bias. Tlaib said the following: “We’ve had the right to dissent, the right to protest. Weve done it for climate, the immigrant rights movement, for Black lives, and even around issues of injustice among water shutoffs. But 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.” On Sunday, CNN's Jake Tapper pressed Michigan Gov. Whitmer about Rep. Tlaib, claiming that Tlaib had criticized Nessel’s prosecution by saying “that she (Nessel) is only doing it because she’s Jewish and the protesters are not.”
Of course, the Congresswoman had not brought up Nessel's religion/ethnicity, and has never said anything remotely like that in any context. And it is false to say that the protesters are not Jewish, since some of them are. The made-up quote keeps on being discussed, with no evidence required, including by Jewish Insider‘s Josh Kraushaar, USA Today's Ingrid Jacques, and CNN's Dana Bash and David Chalian -- not to mention Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League, and 21 U.S. House Democrats. Click here to join our coalition effort in demanding a retraction and an apology.  |
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