(The Hill)
Rachel Frazin 01/30/19 12:36 PM
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week criticized freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib's (D-Mich.) plan to take a congressional delegation to the West Bank.
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) told the Al-Monitor newspaper that instead "she ought to listen and learn and open her mind."
“Instead of her talking about things, she’s new here, she ought to listen and learn and open her mind and then come to some conclusions,” he said, according to the newspaper, which also reported Engel said he was against the delegation.
“If you’re going to be close-minded and have your views, no one’s going to change her views," he continued. "But I would hope that once you’re elected to Congress, you would at least care to see the other side of the coin.”
Tlaib's planned delegation to the West Bank is meant to be an alternative to the traditional trip for new members of Congress led by the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
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