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Rashida Tlaib shares fake poll that Israelis approve of Palestinian rape

August 9, 2024 | | Print Article

While one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress was fighting for her right to party in a Minneapolis bar, the other half of that equation was sharing a fake poll online to dehumanize Israelis.

U.S. Rep. Rashid Tlaib (D-MI) reposted a doctored poll showing that 47 percent of Israelis believed that soldiers should be allowed to rape Palestinians — the great irony here is that the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has a history of weaponizing rape as a part of its campaign of terror against the Jewish State.

The Democratic lawmaker would scramble to delete the post when it was revealed that the authentic poll question – which is in Hebrew – asked if respondents thought the government had surrendered to terrorist supporters.

The original post was from Noura Erakat, a Palestinian American activist who is, not surprisingly, an associate professor at Rutgers University.

Erakat rushed to defend Tlaib, posting on X: “Rep Tlaib trusted me & posting this [without] cross checking was my mistake. But surely u understand how one would take this poll to be true in light of video of gang rape of a Palestinian detainee & Knesset + public debate on whether such rape should be ok.”

The latter reference was to a video leaked by an Israeli media outlet showing an alleged gang-rape of a Palestinian detainee — reportedly a man in his thirties — by Israeli soldiers at the Sde Teiman detention camp.

Tlaib, who has a history of antisemitic actions, is known for sharing pro-Hamas talking points that have little basis in facts.

“It is utterly unacceptable that Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib would spread false, inflammatory stories about Israel,” an Anti-Defamation League spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “Though Tlaib subsequently deleted her post sharing this photoshopped image of a poll, the damage had already been done. Lies and misinformation spread like wildfire on social media – Members of Congress shouldn’t be promoting false and damaging disinformation – they should be fighting it.”

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, which centered as much on Rutgers as they did Tlaib, as seen on X:

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