Israeli ambassador Erdan to Tlaib: Open your eyes to reality on Temple Mount
May 28, 2021
(JNS) Israeli Ambassador to the United States Gilad Erdan called out Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Monday after she tweeted a defamatory post against the Jewish state.
On Twitter, she wrote: “Al-Aqsa is the 3rd holiest site in Islam, & people praying during the holiest days of the holy month of Ramadan have been beaten, gassed, shot, & killed by Israeli forces. They are denied medics & forced to use prayer mats as stretchers. A place of peace desecrated by violence.”
She added that “American taxpayer money is being used to commit human-rights violations. Congress must condition.
“Islam’s 3rd holiest site is being used to stockpile Molotov cocktails and rocks being lobbed at police and Jewish worshippers praying at the Western Wall, below the Temple Mount,” Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan tweeted in response to the Michigan legislator.