US Congressman Should Be Repudiated for Anti-Palestinian Rant: Advocacy Group

IQNA – The US House of Representatives leadership and members of Congress have been urged to repudiate Rep. Chuck Fleischmann for his recent anti-Palestinian comments.

Video posted to Twitter shows a confrontation between Rep. Fleischmann and Code Pink activists.

“You can tell the Palestinians, I will never support them,” Rep. Fleischmann said in the video. “Let me make it clear, Israel is our ally, will always be our ally, and they are not genocide, and I will support Israel forever.” He then said, “I will never support you, I will tell you to your face: Goodbye to Palestine.”

In a statement, Deputy Executive Director the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Edward Ahmed Mitchell said:

“Rep. Fleischmann is the third member of Congress in recent months who has made hateful remarks that seem to endorse the whole-scale destruction of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Before him, Rep. Mast said there are no innocent Palestinian civilians and compared them to Nazis and Rep. Ogles said we should ‘kill them all’ when asked about children in Gaza. When are lawmakers going to stop persecuting Muslim representatives for supporting human rights for Palestinians and censure voices calling for mass slaughter and ethnic cleansing instead?”

He noted that CAIR previously condemned similar anti-Palestinian remarks by Rep. Mast and Rep. Ogles.

Source: Cair.com