Months before blocking their entry into Israel, Netanyahu wrote letter opposing Reps. Omar and Tlaib

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Months before blocking their entry into Israel, Netanyahu wrote letter opposing Reps. Omar and Tlaib
By Adam Taylor  Foreign reporter who writes about a variety of subjects

August 19 at 1:06 PM

Before his government barred Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from visiting Israel last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had called them the “antithesis” of “strong bipartisan support for Israel in the United States Congress,” according to a letter he wrote to House Democrats this summer.

The letter, addressed to Rep. Jim McGovern (Mass.), was in response to a number of Democratic lawmakers who had been urging Netanyahu to reconsider an order to deport a Human Rights Watch researcher based in Jerusalem because of his alleged support for a movement to boycott Israel, which has become a flash point between Netanyahu’s right-wing government and supporters of Palestinian rights.

Netanyahu’s decision to block Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Omar (D-Minn.) from entering Israel was widely condemned by American lawmakers from both parties and Jewish groups that traditionally have been supportive of the Israeli prime minister.

Read more at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/19/months-before-blocking-their-entry-into-israel-netanyahu-penned-letter-opposing-reps-omar-tlaib/