Member of Congress Ritchie Torres tweeted during the Jenin operation:
The Palestinian Authority has all but abandoned Jenin, leaving behind a power vacuum that has been filled by terrorists.
In the past six months, those terrorists made Jenin a launching pad for more than 50 shooting attacks against Israelis.
Israel is responding with a counterterrorism operation aimed at surgically removing these terrorists and their terror infrastructure.
There's a word for this: self-defense, which is the right of every sovereign country, including Israel.
There is not a word in this tweet that is inaccurate. So, naturally, it upset the Palestinians.
Torres is Black and a progressive, which are two categories that Palestinians think that they have complete control over, but Torres is also an unapologetic Zionist - and this drives them crazy.
So crazy that even the most politically astute Palestinians reveal their racism and antisemitism when foaming at the mouth about him.
Commenting on Khaled Elgindy's fact-free tweet criticizing Torres, Hanan Ashrawi, the much honored grande dame of Palestinian politics, writes about Torres, "He's just mindlessly reciting what his AIPAC masters sent him as a mouthpiece of Israeli hasbara. Shameful."
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