(Daily Wire) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) late last week decried as racist a cartoon that lampooned her history of supporting terrorism against Israel.
The cartoon, by Henry Payne, was published Thursday in National Review. It showed Tlaib sitting behind her desk as her pager exploded.
“Odd,” Tlaib says in the cartoon. “My pager just exploded.”
Cartoon: Tlaib Pager Hamashttps://t.co/wdwWCbCgmj pic.twitter.com/8AF3kA8Llk
— Henry Payne (@HenryEPayne) September 19, 2024
The cartoon was a reference to Israel detonating pagers that it secretly manufactured and sold to Hezbollah, and detonated once they were in terrorists’ hands. The operation killed dozens of terrorists, and wounded thousands more.
Our community is already in so much pain right now,” Tlaib posted on X. “This racism will incite more hate + violence against our Arab & Muslim communities, and it makes everyone less safe. It’s disgraceful that the media continues to normalize this racism.”
Numerous far-left members of Congress attacked the cartoon, calling it “racist” and “Islamophobic.”
But Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Research Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said that there was “nothing racist” about the cartoon.
