Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), a viciously anti-Israel third-term member of Congress, was fact-checked by Twitter’s new “Community Notes” system on Tuesday after she objected to a bipartisan trip to Israel.
She was promptly fact-checked by the Community Notes system, which uses crowdsourcing from a variety of viewpoints rather than outsourcing to third-party organizations .
The Community Notes correctly pointed out that Israel was officially created by a United Nations resolution, and not violence — though Palestinian Arabs and surrounding Arab states tried to crush the state in its infancy. The subsequent war was not, generally speaking, one of “ethnic cleansing”; in fact, Israel often pleaded with Arab populations to stay, but many were encouraged by Arab leaders to leave. Historians debate whether the Israeli military pushed Arab populations out of some areas during inter-communal fighting; what is beyond debate is that Arab armies expelled Jews from certain areas, including the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem.
As for the accusation of “apartheid,” Israel guarantees Arabs equal rights, and an Arab party served in the previous Israeli government — something that would have been unthinkable in any “apartheid” system. The term “Nakba” is a Palestinian observance of the day on the secular calendar when Israel declared independence in 1948. Like many elements of Palestinian political identity, it is focused on Israel.on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET . He is the author of the new biography,
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