Jewish Michigan AG Nessel Blasts Tlaib’s Antisemitic Rhetoric Aimed at Her
“And I don’t think you have to be Angela Lansbury to figure this out, right? Clearly, she’s referencing my religion as to why she thinks I can’t be fair.”
Jewish Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel went off on Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) after the latter criticized the AG for pressing charges against anti-Israel protesters at the University of Michigan.
Nessel’s office charged the protesters “with a variety of crimes, including attempted ethnic intimidation, assaulting or obstructing a police officer, and more.”
Tlaib implied Nessel cannot do the job because of a bias: “It seems that the attorney general decided, if the issue was Palestine, she was going to treat it differently, and that alone speaks volumes about possible biases within the agency she runs.” From the video:
TAPPER: Let’s get to the heart of this. You called Congresswoman Tlaib’s reaction to your office’s charges and her allegations that you and your office has a bias, you said that was anti-semitic. Why?
NESSEL: Well, you know, look for her to say that I could handle a litany of other cases, and that was fine, but when it comes to anything involving pro-Palestinian protesters, I could not be fair, I could not be objective. And I don’t think you have to be Angela Lansbury to figure this out, right? Clearly, she’s referencing my religion as to why she thinks I can’t be fair. She also mischaracterized the charges. And I think quite in, you know, intentionally, I mean, she talked about this being peaceful protesters. No peaceful protesters were charged in this event. And, you know, Rashida is a lawyer. She had every opportunity to call me to ask to see the evidence in this case, but you didn’t do that, you know. I — I have to rely on the facts, the law and the evidence when I go into a court of law. And that’s what we evaluated in this case. And that’s the only thing that we evaluated in terms of making a determination as to these charges.
Tapper then admitted he misspoke when talking to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer about the situation, so he asked Nessel about the comments again, “noting that Congresswoman Tlaib never explicitly said that your bias was because of your religion, and so it’s unfair for you to make that allegation.”
Nessel replied:
Well, a couple of things, in 2022 when my opponent accused me of being a groomer and a pedophile, everyone understood those were homophobic remarks because I happen to be gay, right, I didn’t have to explain it to people. Um, rashida Tlaib is an individual who is well known for making inflammatory and incendiary remarks that are antisemitic in nature. So this isn’t the first time that we would have heard these words out of her mouth.
I think it’s very clear to everybody exactly what she was saying but I have to say this. It is my job to keep communities and campuses around Michigan safe and that is exactly what we’re doing. I understand that the congresswoman has very strong feelings about what is happening in the Middle East. So many people do here in the state of Michigan. But that doesn’t excuse criminal behavior. The answer to what’s happening in the Middle East is clearly not to have chaos and anarchy and lawlessness on our college campuses in a way that jeopardizes the safety of students.
Tapper mentioned how the university hasn’t shown any signs of it being “displeased” that Nessel’s office brought charges against these protesters.
Nessel said she hadn’t heard anything from the university.
Nessel added: “I don’t think it’s helpful to anyone to have the congresswoman commenting on the merit on these cases when she’s not familiar with the facts or the evidence.”
Tapper then asked Nessel about Whitmer’s comments on Monday and Tuesday where she defended the attorney general and how we must “use our platform and voices to call out hateful rhetoric and racist tropes.”
Nessel answered:
I certainly appreciate her statement today. We’ll say this about Governor Whitmer. We have a very close personal and professional relationship. I think we work really well together over the course of our time in these offices. She supported me and also supported the Jewish community. I just think it’s important that we focus on maintaining safety, security, and make sure that people around the state of Michigan know that irrespective of what’s happening in the Middle east, people are going to be protected here in the state of Michigan.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) says that Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) accused her of bias in prosecuting students because she is Jewish.
Nessel says that Tlaib is "anti-Semitic" and says she "intentionally" lied about what the charges were that the students face pic.twitter.com/NZsqEXthhd
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Rasheeda should just be glad she wasn’t injured by her exploding pager.
Yeah, that would be a cryin’ shame, wouldn’t it?
So true
Tlaib should just keep her big, and I mean big, mouth shut for once.
Nessel surely knows that her every move and utterance will be scrutinized down to the nuts and bolts, and the left will still call her “racist.” It is their monstrous nature.
For once? How about for a lifetime
How about we hand her over to Israel to trade for hostages?
She and Candace Owens have so much to discuss.
Can provide the exact quote(s) from Owens you find to be anti Semitic? Not being enthusiastic about sending taxpayer dollars to other Nations is not evidence. IMO before we go labeling folks as full of ‘ists/isms/phobes’ and seeking to drive them out of business we should offer direct unambiguous evidence. Whenever there’s doubt or room for interpretation we shouldn’t make the charge, IMO. That’s one of the things that separates our side from the lefty fanatical Karens who act without regard to evidence always seeking to find any flimsy excuse to label folks they disagree with as some sort of monster.
Is this sufficient evidence? I’m not sure, but it looks bad.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-814865
It’s bad. She really is over the edge.
That’s hardly the worst of it. Dr Mengele is propaganda. “Zionists” worship Baphomet. Leo Frank was guilty, and was somehow connected with the 18th-century Frankist cult in Poland. The Talmud is Satanist, and St Louis was right to burn it. Israel is committing genocide. It just goes on and on.
If Candace Owens is not an antisemite then neither was Henry Ford, or Father Coughlin.
There is a ton of evidence that Owens is over the edge and the main reason Shapiro told her to take a hike. Shapiro even said that on his podcast. Her words since then have become even more inflammatory.
gibbie
Thanks for that article which definitely provides evidence she is a crank with antisemitic beliefs steeped in all sorts of oddball conspiracy theories that make no sense.
I hadn’t seen it b/c I don’t pay attention to Owens as I have long since tuned her out. IMO she is an example of the tendency of some to ‘adopt’ a figure who says things they like to hear especially of the person is not a ‘white male’. These folks get turned into a mascot of sorts then their history or more info comes into public and folks are shocked to discover they got played by a grifting crank.
Muslim supremacist and Islamofascist, Tlaib, is ugly and vile — within, and, without.
When I advocated a political cartoon of her using a stick of Dynamite with a lit fuse for personal entertainment I was thinking of the one with same in a turban. Tlaib is worse that Abrams. How about putting it on a billboard in Dearborn?
Sapphic Sister Nessel knows better than to go anywhere near that Rancid T. Labia.
Tlaib is a hater easily brought to tears. That cartoon had her pegged!
Hopefully, handwriting is starting on the wall that Tlaib and the rest of her group see. Not that they will change. Probably become more extreme and bitter.
As an aside, it’s nice to see a Democrat interviewed and you know who was not the subject.
Nah. She isn’t being brought to tears. She is crying on cue having learned Paliworld from her brothers in arms over in Gaza.
“when my opponent accused me of being a groomer and a pedophile, everyone understood those were homophobic remarks because I happen to be gay”
So you can’t be a groomer and a pedophile if you’re gay? Who knew?
So during the summer of love 2020, Dems let rioters and looters run wild, but now when it’s anti-Semites, some sing a different tune. The fascist left and their stormtroopers made their bed, now they have to lie in it.
If she supports letting grown men jiggle in front of kids, or allowing secually depraved books in schools, she is a groomer and a pedophile.
Sadly — it is the west that doesn’t “get it”
We keep imagining that at some point the tlaibers will finally come to recognize the errors of their ways
We keep deluding ourselves that they will become enlightened, despite 1500 years of experience to the contrary
Tlaib lives and breathes dominance of the pigs and dogs whom she is here to dominate—one way or another. To most westerners, such a belief system is bizarre, unimaginably unnecessary, incomprehensible.
We keep thinking that Tlaib’s worldview can be “improved.” She, on the other hand, knows otherwise. She knows that her worldview is perfectly fine, and correct.
And no amount of battlefield losses will ever change that.
And no amount of court cases will change that.
And no amount of land losses, or changes in kings, presidents, emirs, no changes in technology or anything else will change that.
Tlaib , we must realize, is perfectly content, pleased, and proud to live and do as she lives and does. Her goal is to be part of a movement that will take over the US and the world—and she’s making perfectly fine progress.
“Tlaib implied Nessel cannot do the job because of a bias”
I think we’ve all seen that Tlaib can’t do HER job because of her bias.
Tlaib is doing her job just fine
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20966/persecution-of-christians-august
As Bernie Sanders would say, these folks are just saying what they need to say in order to help the dems get re-elected.
My guess is that a few staffers from CNN and Tlaib and Nessel got together and agreed on a script.
Most voters want to imagine that Nessel has any power wrt Tlaib — and so this kind of feigned public display of LawAndOrder gives the sheeple-dems a rationale for voting dem in November.
It’s all a show. This is how people are groomed into believing that they are not voting for their own destruction, when they are in fact voting for their own destruction.
(Remember when Kamala met secretly with the mayor of dearborn a few weeks ago?)
(Remember when Samantha Power visited dearborn a few weeks ago?)
Islam is not compatible with western culture, that will have to be addressed, sooner the better.
It is being continuously addressed, and Western culture is self-destructing.