Shaffir calls Netanyahu a ‘coward’ over reported barring of Tlaib, Omar

15 August 2019, 3:31 pm

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Stav Shaffir, No. 2 in the left-wing Democratic Camp party, criticizes the government for reportedly deciding to bar US congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country over their BDS support.

Stav Shaffir speaks during a press conference announcing the Democratic Camp in Tel Aviv on July 25, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

“A country with a wise foreign policy would have invited the congresswomen whose opinions we don’t like for a visit, and made sure that it exposes the complexity of the conflict, connects them also to our narrative and shows to the world that we are strong and open,” Shaffir writes in a tweet.

“The policy of Netanyahu, the coward, slams the door and hands a gift to BDS, which gives back a gift to Bibi: fear and division,” she says, using Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s nickname.