Latest controversy: Tlaib and Omar share cartoon by notorious antisemitic cartoonist who came second in Iran’s Holocaust denial contest ... See MoreSee Less

Haaretz, the Israeli extreme left paper, many of whose journalists hate Israel ... See MoreSee Less

After Tablet, another left wing Jewish publication, The Forward, also criticizes Tlaib's choice of anti-Semitic hosts for her planned visit ... See MoreSee Less

(Liberal Tablet magazine columnist): "To describe Israel's decision to bar Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country as a violation of democratic norms as The NY Times did is simply bonkers. In 2005, Narendra Modi, now India's prime minister, was to visit New York and address a rally for Indian-Americans in Madison Square Garden. The visit never happened. The State Department successfully argued that he shouldn't be allowed in.

"Great Britain has banned a host of individuals whose opinions or actions it found distasteful: In the 1950s, it refused to let future prime minister Menachem Begin in, arguing that he once engaged in violence against Her Majesty's Armed Forces as a leader of the pre-state paramilitary Irgun.

"Exercising their right to defend themselves, democracies reserve the right to keep out anyone they feel might endanger them in any way. Israel argues that avid supporters of a movement, BDS, whose overtly stated goal is the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state, represent a threat to the country." ... See MoreSee Less

Israel grants Rashida Tlaib permission to enter Israel providing she doesn't use it as a springboard to demonise, attack and slander Israelis and Jews. But now Tlaib says she won’t come. She reneges on her own letter and says she will not agree not to insult her hosts and call for the destruction of their country on her trip. So it appears she was manipulatively using her grandmother as a political football and doesn’t actually want to visit her grandmother before she dies. ... See MoreSee Less