Rashida Tlaib attended the funeral of Jimmy Carter, her favorite president, and even more favorite post-president, who was as staunch a supporter of the Cause of Palestine as she could have wished. After all, he’s the man who wrote Palestine: Peace or Apartheid, a title that must have made her swoon with pleasure. She went to the funeral of her favorite American politician dressed not in funereal black, but with the keffiyeh that signifies “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Intifada Forever.” More on her final expression of gratitude to Jimmy Carter can be found here: “Tlaib Sports Palestinian Keffiyeh at Carter Funeral, Thanks Late President for ‘Speaking Out Against Apartheid,’” by Corey Walker, Algemeiner, January 10, 2025:
US Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), one of the most strident opponents of Israel in Congress, wore a Palestinian keffiyeh to the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, commemorating the late American leader’s advocacy against so-called “apartheid” in the Jewish state.
Carter wasn’t just against the non-existent apartheid that he claimed, against all the contradictory evidence, was practiced in Israel. He didn’t care for the Jewish state at all. Come to think of it, the more you look into his statements made in the four decades of his post-presidential existence, the more you realize he was, for all of his sanctimonious piety, a true antisemite, completely indifferent to the wellbeing of the Jewish state and its people. Not only did he dislike Israel and its inexplicably ungrateful Jews — and after all he’d done for them! — but after meeting in 2009 with Ismail Haniyeh, then the head of the terrorist group Hamas, and his associates, Carter wrote this in his report on the meeting: “As in previous meetings, my impression was that they [the Hamas leaders] were frank and honest with me, listening carefully, quickly accepting or rejecting my suggestions, and being flexible when possible.” Not a word about Hamas’ terror attacks, nor of any attempt by Carter to raise that issue with Haniyeh, for whom he had only praise for being “frank and honest and flexible.” Carter had similar words of praise for Bashar Assad, with whom he met on the same trip to the Middle East.
Tlaib tweeted about the funeral, giving Carter a Farewell on X that left not a wet eye in my house. To wit:
“Rest in peace, President Jimmy Carter. It was an honor to be there with your family. I wore my Palestinian keffiyeh to show my gratitude for your courageous stance in speaking out against apartheid and standing up for peace,” Tlaib posted on X/Twitter, along with a picture of her keffyeh.
The keffiyeh, a traditional Arab headscarf, has become known as a symbol of solidarity with the Palestinian cause and opposition to Israel since the outbreak of the war in Gaza in October 2023.
No, the keffiyeh has been a symbol of “Palestinianism” ever since Yasser Arafat made it his permanent fashion statement in the 1970s. Lately, however, it has traveled far from the Middle East, and become the must-have accessory for the legions of anti-Israel campus protesters who would not be caught dead without it. No article of clothing says “I hate Israel” more eloquently than that black-on-white checkerboard scarf.
High-profile politicians, including all five living US presidents, attended Carter’s funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC on Thursday. The former president died on Dec. 29, 2024 at 100 years old due to heart failure.
Over the past couple of decades, Carter’s public commentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has ruffled feathers among supporters of the Jewish state. In 2006, Carter raised eyebrows after publishing a book titled, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which condemned Israel for constructing settlements in the West Bank and accused the Jewish state of constructing a racially-discriminatory political regime.
Carter, of course, did not bother to look at how Israeli Arabs really lived. Had he done so, he would have realized how foolish it was to accuse Israel of apartheid. As foolish, in fact, as the more recent, and even graver charges now flung with such abandon at Israel, that it is committing “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” in Gaza.
In 2009, Carter traveled to the Middle East and held meetings with leaders of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Critics noted that he did not criticize Hamas leadership during his meeting and praised the terrorists as being “frank and honest.”
“I don’t see that deep commitment on the part of [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu to make concessions which [former Prime Minister] Menachem Begin did to find peace with his potential enemies,” Carter continued….
Begin was browbeaten at Camp David by both Carter and his national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, until he finally agreed to submit to Sadat’s demand that the entire Sinai, together with the producing oilfields that the Israelis had discovered, and the airbases they had built, and the tourist resort they had constructed at Sharm el-Sheikh, would be returned to Egypt, in three tranches, and within three years. When Benjamin Netanyahu became prime minister, he was not about to yield to American pressure and would not make the “concessions” that Jimmy Carter, always taking the Arab side, thought he should be prepared to make, including giving up Judea and Samaria, and the Golan Heights, to a future Palestinian state. No wonder Carter the Sanctimonious Peace-maker preferred the pliant Begin to the unyielding Netanyahu.
“What’s their top priority the first week of the new Congress? Lowering costs? Addressing the housing crisis? No, it’s sanctioning the International Criminal Court to protect genocidal maniac Netanyahu so he can continue the genocide in Gaza,” Tlaib wrote on social media.
So Netanyahu is a “genocidal maniac” for trying to protect the people of Israel from a repetition of what was done to them by the 6,000 Hamas terrorists who smashed into Israel on October 7, 2023, and proceeded, both at the music festival and at ten kibbutzim, to torture, rape, mutilate, and murder 1,200 Israelis. That is what wearing the keffiyeh really means: I support Hamas. I support Palestinian Islamic Jihad. I support the destruction of Israel, and its replacement by a 23rd Arab state. You were so right, Rashida. It was the perfect accessory to wear to the funeral of Jimmy Carter.
somehistory says
And why not? Everyone should know by this time that ratshida tlaib’s middle name is arafat after her and her granny’s favorite terrorist, mozlum daddy of all time.
Ole’ jimmy would be so pleased.
Hoi Polloi says
I think she wears it to cover the snakeskin.
somehistory says
Could be. She can’t shed it.
Condor says
Who can forget the 21% interest rates of Carter’s presidency?
Tony says
Rashida Tlaib is another Muslim terrorist who uses her money and her life for terrorism and follows the terroristic teachings of Allah in Islam’s Quran. Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Organization. Specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Criminal Organization of discrimination, segregation, supremacy, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran.
Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Allah in Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…” For this killing act, a sacred and holy act, deceitful Allah promises rewards for Muslim men in Paradise.
Allah in Qur’an 8:12 says, “When your lord revealed to the angels: ‘I am with you so make firm those who believed[Muslims]. I will cast a terror into the hearts of those who became infidels[Non-Muslims]. So strike above their necks(decapitation), and strike off(chop off) every finger from them.’”
somehistory says
It isn’t “her money”….she doesn’t do her rep job….it’s taxpayers’ money. She gets her terrorism funded by working Americans and even some retired on social security/pension.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Despite this article, I happen to rate Menachem Begin higher than Binyamin Netanyahu. During those years, whenever there was a jihad attack on the Israelis by the PLO, PFLP or islamic jihad (Hamas hadn’t been founded as yet), Begin’s (and Shamir’s after him) policy was to accelerate the construction of Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria, diplomatically making it harder to demand such areas back from Israel. Whereas Netanyahu had a practice of yielding to US pressure from Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama
As for Rashida, I do think she was appropriately dressed for this event. Maybe Ilhan Omar could have followed suit in addition to her hijab
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Yes, I do think I was unfair to Begin who, after all, at Camp David faced a gangup by Carter, Brzezinski, and Sadat, and had to endure the distinct lack of understanding in the American media for the dangers Israel would face from a complete withdrawal from the Sinai.. He was also in the political wilderness for so long in Israel, shunned by Israel’s Labour Party, after having been a heroic figure as head of the Irgun. And before thet he had been imprisoned by the NKVD in Russia, sent to one of those far-north prison camps where a sentence usually meant a death sentence.
Walter Sieruk says
Of course Rashida Tlaib would praise Jimmy Carter was as anti- Israel as she is .. For Tlaib is very anti-Jewish and likewise very anti- Israel, as seen in those anti- Israel foreign policies she always keeps on pushing for. Therefore Tlaib is, in essence, un-American. As former US President, William Howard Taft, wisely, declared in a speech “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out it has no place in America.”
Related to this is a grand statement in a speech the former President Theodore Roosevelt, rightly, declared, “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Walter Sieruk says
It’s no wonder that the subversive stealth jihadist, Rashida Tlaib, went to the funeral of Jimmy Carter and praised him.. For Jimmy Carter wasn’t any good for America. Likewise, he wasn’t any good for Israel.
The only thing that Carter was “good” at , was aiding that America and Israel hating “mullah regime” come into power in Iran.
Walter Sieruk says
Jimmy Carter may be ,rightly, compared to Joe Biden.
First, largely because of Carter’s incompetent international polices of folly and terrible judgement , especially regarding the Middle East , he paved the way for that demonic Islamic revolution that led to the establishment of that tyrannical sharia based oppressive anti- America and anti- Israel Islamic regime of Iran.
Second, because of Biden’s treachery against the America solders and other US service people and our Afghan friends, he deliberately gave away the land that is Afghanistan to the Taliban, who are the vicious enemies of America and the brutal cruel Sharia based tyranny.
Furthermore both Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden say that they are Christians ,but the above ,just described results of their actions while on the Office of the Presidency had the outcome of the advancement of that diabolical ant- Bible , anti-Christianity , anti- Christian false religion of Islam.
Therefore, the claim Carter and Biden had said that they are Christians has to be an bogus claim and empty spoken words because the fruits of their behavior in Office turn out to be in Iran and Afghanistan be evil fruits. As Jesus taught, “By their fruits you will recognize them. “ Matthew 7:20. [N.I.V.}
Yes, the late Jimmy Carter and subversive Rashide Tlaib had spoken so praising of Carter at his funeral.
rick says
I’m sure Obama was comforted by seeing the keffiyeh among the honored guests and former Presidents.
somehistory says
He probably had on underwear with that pattern. something had him grinning.
Happy faces at that funeral.
Aviva says
As with many other things, why is the kaffayeh not considered a symbol of hate?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
More than that, the only difference b/w a hijab and a white Klansrobe is the color – black vs white. And the wearer – female vs male, although men have been known to disguise themselves in hijabs while indulging in activities like theft. So if a klansrobe is considered a hate symbol, so is a hijab, jilbab, chador, niqab, et al
James Lincoln says
How is the “Palestinian” keffiyeh different from the Nazi swastika?