Rashida Tlaib Attacks a Jewish Attorney General for Doing Her Job—and Her Critics Are Labeled Bigots

Sept. 30 2024

With everything happening in the Middle East, it was easy to lose sight of a minor but significant political story: Rashida Tlaib, an obsessively anti-Israel Michigan congresswoman, lambasted her state’s Jewish attorney general, Dana Nessel, leading Nessel’s defenders to accuse Tlaib of thinly veiled anti-Semitism. The editors of the Free Press take a closer look:

The trouble began for Attorney General Dana Nessel—[a Jewish] progressive lesbian—when she had the gall to do her job: namely, to prosecute criminals. The criminals in question were mainly anti-Israel protesters at the University of Michigan who resisted arrest and refused to leave an encampment on the Ann Arbor campus.

Unlike so many other state attorneys general, who have lacked the political will to indict politically inconvenient criminals, Nessel did. Two of the protesters were prosecuted for trespassing, another seven were charged with trespassing and resisting arrest, and two more pro-Israel demonstrators were prosecuted for separate incidents involving a counterprotest at last spring’s encampment.

Tlaib’s complaint about “possible biases” in Nessel’s office was understood by many as implying that Nessel was acting out of especially Jewish bias. The suggestion that there was an anti-Semitic dimension to Tlaib’s comment itself provoked outrage:

Check out any of your favorite progressive publications—the Intercept, the New Republic, Zeteo—and the story is the inverse of reality. They argue that Nessel is the bigot for smearing Tlaib with the stain of anti-Semitism. It becomes Nessel who has defamed Tlaib—and who must be held to account. This is extraordinary considering that Nessel appointed the first Arab American state solicitor general in American history, Fadwa Hammoud.

This kind of gaslighting has become an unfortunate pattern for progressives since October 7. A couple of examples: after a horrific pogrom where Jewish Israeli parents were murdered in front of their children, it was Israel that was the aggressor. Israel’s defensive war, according to this warped logic, is a genocide. Meanwhile Hamas, the perpetrators of the genocidal act, are the noble resistance.

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More about: Anti-Semitism, Rashida Tlaib, U.S. Politics

The “New York Times” Publishes an Unsubstantiated Slander of the Israeli Government

July 15 2025

 In a recent article, the New York Times Magazine asserts that Benjamin Netanyahu “prolonged the war in Gaza to stay in power.” Niranjan Shankar takes the argument apart piece by piece, showing that for all its careful research, it fails to back up its basic claims. For instance: the article implies that Netanyahu pulled out of a three-point cease-fire proposal supported by the Biden administration in the spring of last year:

First of all, it’s crucial to note that Biden’s supposed “three-point plan” announced in May 2024 was originally an Israeli proposal. Of course, there was some back-and-forth and disagreement over how the Biden administration presented this initially, as Biden failed to emphasize that according to the three-point framework, a permanent cease-fire was conditional on Hamas releasing all of the hostages and stepping down. Regardless, the piece fails to mention that it was Hamas in June 2024 that rejected this framework!

It wasn’t until July 2024 that Hamas made its major concession—dropping its demand that Israel commit up front to a full end to the war, as opposed to doing so at a later stage of cease-fire/negotiations. Even then, U.S. negotiators admitted that both sides were still far from agreeing on a deal.

Even when the Times raises more credible criticisms of Israel—like the IDF’s decision to employ raids rather than holding territory in the first stage of the war—they are offered in what seems like bad faith:

[W]ould the New York Times prefer that Israel instead started with a massive ground campaign with a “clear-hold-build” strategy from the get-go? Of course, if Israel had done this, there would have been endless criticism, especially under the Biden admin. But when Israel instead tried the “raid-and-clear” strategy, it gets blamed for deliberately dragging the war on.

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More about: Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza War 2023, New York Times