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Rashida Tlaib Says Democrats Express Empathy Toward Palestine in Private Due to Intimidation

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Democratic Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib has said that her Democratic congressional colleagues who express empathy towards Palestinians do it in private due to intimidation by those who want the status quo in Israel to continue.

"It is really hard because any of my colleagues that even have some sort of empathy towards Palestinians they do it quietly with whispering because they continue to be intimidated and bullied by those that want to continue the status quo apartheid in Israel," Tlaib said during her Monday evening interview on the MSNBC news commentary program The Reid Out, hosted by Joy Reid.

Tlaib said that those interested in maintaining the status quo, "literally brush over Palestinians as ... somehow inherently violent, that they don't deserve human rights."

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Democratic Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib has said that her Democratic congressional colleagues who express empathy towards Palestinians do it in private due to intimidation by those who want the status quo in Israel to continue. In this photo, Tlaib speaks during a press conference, to address remarks made by US President Donald Trump earlier in the day, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on July 15, 2019. Brendan Smialowski / AFP/Getty

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