TLAIB AND OMAR RELY ON ANTI-SEMITIC CARTOONIST TO MAKE THEIR CASE AGAINST ISRAEL

Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar spark backlash after sharing anti-Semitic cartoonist's image depicting themselves being silenced by Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Daily Mail
August 18, 2019



The cartoon's creator, Carlos Latuff, is known for creating anti-Semitic cartoons and using the Holocaust to criticize Israel for its treatment of Palestinians.

In a continued feud between Israel and Representative Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tliab, the two congresswomen drew backlash after posting a cartoon this weekend depicting their voices being silenced by Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Tlaib, whose parents are Palestinian, and Omar, who fled Somali for the U.S. when she was younger, posted a political cartoon to their Instagram stories where Trump's hand was over Omar's mouth and Natanyahu's hand over Tlaib's.

'The more they try to silence us, our voices rise. The more they try to weaken us, the stronger we become. The more they try to discredit us, the truth prevails,' Rlaib wrote alongside the images on her Instagram account.

Latuff posted the cartoon to his Twitter on Friday, claiming in the post that Trump and Netanyahu have waged a war on free speech and against the freshmen congresswomen.

'Trump-Netanyahu's war on @RashidaTlaib and @IlhanMN is a war against freedom of speech, a war against everyone who dare to criticize #Israel's apartheid,' he tweeted.

EDITOR’S NOTE: In 2006, Carlos Latuff, a Brazilian-Lebanese, participated in Iran’s annual Holocaust cartoon contest. He has often compared Israel to the Nazi regime and has used the Holocaust as criticism of Israel, saying: “Of course Israel isn’t building gas chambers in the West Bank, but surely we can find some similarities between the treatment given to Palestinians by the [Israel Defense Forces] and the Jews under Nazi rule.”