WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM: US congresswoman Rashida
Tlaib has decided against visiting her relatives in the
West Bank after Israel issued a permit allowing her entry on humanitarian grounds.Israel barred
Tlaib and fellow Democrat Ilhan Omar from visiting Jerusalem and the
West Bank over their support for the international boycott movement, but later said
Tlaib could
visit her relatives in the
West Bank.The Israeli Interior Ministry released a letter purportedly signed by
Tlaib in which she promised not to advocate boycotts during her visit.But in a statement released later on Friday,
Tlaib said: “Visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions meant to humiliate me would break my grandmother’s heart.”She added: “Silencing me with treatment to make me feel less-than is not what she wants for me — it would kill a piece of me that always stands up against racism and injustice.”
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