Washington Examiner
May 14, 2019
Israeli scholars have blasted Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan congresswoman and Democrat, for her comments that her Palestinian ancestors provided a “safe haven” for Jews during the Holocaust.
“Rashida Tlaib is either completely ignorant of the history or is a deliberate liar,” professor Benny Morris, a leading scholar of British Mandatory Palestine and the formation of the country of Israel, told Haaretz.
He added that Palestinians “did nothing to alleviate the suffering of the Jews at Nazi hands. Rather the opposite: The Arabs of [British Mandatory] Palestine, during the whole period — and supported by the neighboring Arab states — did all they could to prevent Jews trying to escape Nazi hands from reaching the (relatively safe) shores of Palestine.”