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(Hadalsame) 30 August 2019<\/strong><\/span> – Almost two weeks have passed since outspoken congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were barred from entering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n

But the conversation they helped ignite has yet to abate.<\/p>\n

When Israeli Prime Minister\u00a0Benjamin Netanyahu made the\u00a0announcement\u00a0<\/a>on 15 August, much of the media\u2019s attention fell on Tlaib being denied a visit to her ancestral home in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0inability to see her 90-year-old grandmother became a metaphor for the expulsion and banishment that has characterised Palestinian lives\u00a0for the past 70 years.<\/p>\n

Israeli officials later said that Tlaib could visit her grandmother in exchange for her silence, an offer she turned down. The damage, however, was already done.<\/p>\n

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Ilhan Omar (L) and Rashida Tlaib (R) were both barred from entering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories (AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The idea that two US lawmakers could be banned from America\u2019s closest ally prompted a wave of\u00a0dissociation\u00a0<\/a>with Netanyahu’s decision.<\/p>\n

Palestinian activists in the US\u00a0spoke out<\/a>\u00a0too, pointing out that this was par for the course for all Palestinians.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are unexceptional actions being applied to exceptional people,\u201d Reuben Telushkin, an organiser with the Jewish Voice for Peace activist group based\u00a0in Detroit,<\/a>\u00a0said of the Israeli government’s actions to bar the pair.<\/p>\n

But once the dust settled, activists and observers turned their gaze to Tlaib\u2019s colleague, Omar.<\/p>\n

Where Netanyahu and his ally Donald Trump had opened themselves up to criticism, even attracting a rebuke from top Israeli lobby AIPAC, Tlaib\u00a0momentarily petitioned Israel for leniency, while Omar seized the opportunity to highlight Israeli abuses.<\/p>\n

\u2018Formidable foe\u2019<\/h3>\n

On 16 August, Omar unleashed a\u00a0thread on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0in which she first dismantled misunderstandings about the purpose of the trip, sharing\u00a0her itinerary and later the various issues she was hoping to explore.<\/p>\n

Israel is the recipient to the tune of $3.8bn\u00a0in US military aid annually. And Omar wasn\u2019t going to\u00a0let this moment slip<\/a>,\u00a0without pointing that out.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s be clear: the goal of our trip was to witness firsthand what is happening on the ground in Palestine and hear from stakeholders \u2014our job as Members of Congress.<\/p>\n

But since we were unable to fulfill our role as legislators, I am sharing what we would have seen. (THREAD)<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) 16 augusti 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n