President Trump and GOP lawmakers took Rep. Rashida Tlaib's words out of context to accuse her of anti-Semitism.
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Though Tlaib glossed over a complex, widely-debated history on the creation of the state of Israel, Trump and GOP lawmakers took her words out of context to accuse her of anti-Semitism. "I mean, just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time, and I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that, right, in many ways," Tlaib went on to say."But they did it in a way that took their human dignity away, right, and it was forced on them.
By May 1948, Israel declared independence and that same month a coalition of forces from neighboring Arab nations invaded, sparking the first conflict in a series of Arab-Israeli wars.
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