{"id":3597,"date":"2018-01-05T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajcongress.org\/jewishpoliticalguide\/?page_id=3597"},"modified":"2024-07-03T16:59:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T20:59:58","slug":"jewish-insider-michigan-senate-candidate-mike-rogers-slams-slotkin-for-staying-silent-on-tlaib","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ajcongress.org\/jewishpoliticalguide\/jewish-insider-michigan-senate-candidate-mike-rogers-slams-slotkin-for-staying-silent-on-tlaib\/","title":{"rendered":"JEWISH INSIDER: Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers slams Slotkin for staying silent on Tlaib"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 23: Michael Rogers, National Security Commentator, CNN, speaks onstage during the 2019 Concordia Annual Summit – Day 1 at Grand Hyatt New York on September 23, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Riccardo Savi\/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Emily Jacobs<\/a>, Jewish Insider<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michigan\u2019s Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers is taking Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and her fellow Michigan Democrats to task for refusing to condemn an anti-Israel conference<\/a> \u2014 featuring speakers with links to terrorist groups \u2014 that Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) addressed last weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rogers, who is facing Slotkin in the competitive race for retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow\u2019s (D-MI) seat, told Jewish Insider<\/em> that Michigan Democrats were failing their Arab constituents who reject antisemitism by avoiding conversations about the behavior of Tlaib and her far-left colleagues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat you\u2019re doing is silencing those Arabs and those Muslims in that district who don\u2019t believe [what Tlaib is saying],\u201d Rogers said, noting that many of them \u201ccame to the United States\u201d because they celebrate Western values. He accused Tlaib and others who preach the same message of bringing \u201cthe hatred that happens in some of these places around the world to their doorstep.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cElissa Slotkin\u2019s refusal to condemn Rashida Tlaib while she continues to spread antisemitism and attends an event with terrorist organizations is pure cowardice,\u201d he told JI. \u201cSlotkin\u2019s astounding lack of judgement and the consequences as a result only lead to more antisemitism and violence towards Jews. America desperately needs leaders who will stand up to this hatred and support the entire Jewish community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slotkin\u2019s campaign spokesperson declined to comment in response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked about Tlaib\u2019s incendiary rhetoric in the days immediately following Oct. 7, Slotkin told CNN that, \u201cI handle my issues with other members of Congress privately, but for me it shouldn\u2019t be hard to condemn terrorists and terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rogers described this period in history as a \u201cMartin Niem\u00f6ller moment,\u201d referencing the German pastor who authored the famous 1946 poem \u201cFirst they came,\u201d and said that leaders have an obligation to stand up to hatred in all forms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHatred is hatred. They are standing up, preaching hatred to Jewish Americans, certainly Israeli citizens, and promoting and encouraging this behavior on college campuses,\u201d he said. \u201cNot to stand up may be the worst sign of leadership, if not an act of cowardice, to me. And that\u2019s exactly what we see. We see that lack of condemnation of the event in Detroit, a lack of condemnation of the rhetoric that we know is encouraging, inciting violence and hatred of Jews by Rashida Tlaib.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rogers, who served in the House from 2001 to 2015 and chaired the House Intelligence Committee,said he believes Slotkin and other Democrats staying silent on Tlaib\u2019s rhetoric is harmful \u201cbecause it continues to feed into the misinformation that\u2019s out there\u201d about Israel and the Jewish people. \u201cAll of that would be disturbing if it weren\u2019t so dangerous,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThem staring at their navels is complicit in what you see happening on college campuses. They\u2019re afraid to walk in and talk about the truth,\u201d Rogers said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tlaib appeared last weekend at the People\u2019s Conference for Palestine, where pro-terror messages were celebrated and an activist with ties to a group designated by the U.S. as a foreign terrorist organization was welcomed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference was organized by The People\u2019s Forum, a far-left advocacy group funded largely by Neville Roy Singham, a businessman with ties to<\/a> the Chinese Communist Party and a long history of<\/a> donating to Marxist and socialist causes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wisam Rafeedie, an activist with ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is designated in the U.S. as a terrorist organization, was a guest at the event. Sana\u2019 Daqqah, the widow of Walid Daqqah, the PFLP terrorist who was lionized in the Palestinian community for dying in an Israeli prison, was the keynote speaker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attendees took part in chants of \u201cFrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,\u201d, and \u201cWe want justice, you say how? End the siege on Gaza now,\u201d in between speeches and discussions on \u201cConfronting Zionism in Higher Education\u201d and \u201cZionism and U.S. Imperialism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her remarks, Tlaib accused President Joe Biden of being complicit in what she described as a \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza and doing the bidding of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who she referred to as a \u201cmurderous war criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Biden says what\u2019s happening [in Gaza] is not a genocide. Where is your red line, President Biden?\u201d Tlaib told the crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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