The left has angrily greeted Squad member Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s CNN interview, where she tried to brush aside Hamas raping Israeli women and concentrate on supposed Israeli war crimes. Even CNN’s Dana Bash, who interviewed Jayapal, couldn’t contain the disgust on her face.
Jayapal, in true Squad fashion, tried to “but Israel” when Bash attempted to get her to condemn the rape of Israeli women by Hamas:
BASH: “With — okay, with respect, I was just asking about the women, and you turned it back to Israel. I’m asking you about Hamas. In fact — “JAYAPAL: “I already answered your question, Dana. I said it’s horrific.”BASH: “Okay.”JAYAPAL: “And I think that rape is horrific. Sexual assault is horrific. I think that it happens in war situations. Terrorist organizations like Hamas, obviously, are using these as tools. However, I think we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians. 15,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, three-quarters of whom are women and children.”BASH: “And it’s horrible, but you don’t see Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian women.”JAYAPAL: “Well, Dana, I think we’re not — we’re not — I don’t want this to be the hierarchy of oppressions.”
Disgusting behavior.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s daughter fumed against Jayapal. She reminded people you couldn’t push a “both sides” argument in this case.
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough lost his mind over Jayapal trying to equate Hamas raping women and Israel:
What’s remarkable is that you have many people, international organizations on the left, that just can’t condemn Hamas raping and abusing and raping kids to the point in jail. It did and then parading. Yeah, but there was never it wasn’t. We can condemn Hamas. It always has to be. There’s always moral equivocation. And this is what you’re talking about before, Elise. There’s always moral equivocation. You can never say that what Hamas did, the Jewish women was absolutely savage and beyond the pale. It always has to be. ‘Yeah, but Israel.’
Others lashed out at Jayapal.
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