In barring the congresswomen, Binyamin Netanyahu chose to risk long-term damage to Israel’s relationship with America
This article has been updated since publication, after Rashida Tlaib rejected Israel's conditions for visiting her relatives in the West Bank
The trip’s itinerary was in harmony with the women’s political views: both support boycotting, divesting from and sanctioning Israel to protest against and change the country’s treatment of Palestinians. The Israeli government regards BDS as an attempt not just to end the occupation of territory it captured in 1967, but to delegitimise the Jewish state in its entirety.
Soon after Mr Trump’s tweet, Mr Netanyahu announced his support of the interior minister’s decision to deny them entry. “The sole purpose of their visit,” he tweeted, “is to harm Israel and increase incitement against it.” He threw Ms Tlaib a small bone: if she were to ask for a humanitarian visit to her relatives, and pledge “not to act to promote boycotts against Israel during her visit,” Israel would “consider her request.” Ms Tlaib has rejected these terms as “oppressive conditions”.
That is a long shot. No Republican presidential candidate has won a majority of Jewish votes. Republicans tried mightily to convince American Jews that Barack Obama harboured secret anti-Jewish animus; neither of their candidates who ran against him got more than 30% of the Jewish vote. Charles Evans Hughes set the high-water mark for this party by winning 45% in 1912; in 2016, fewer than one in four American Jews voted for Mr Trump.
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