Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., suggested Saturday that viewers boycott
comedian Bill Maher’s HBO talk show after he devoted a segment of
Friday’s program to bashing the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment,
Sanctions (BDS) movement, calling it a “bulls— purity test.”
“Maybe folks should boycott his show,” said Tlaib, who went on to
compare criticism of the BDS movement to the controversy surrounding
boycotts of South Africa’s apartheid regime in the 1970s and 1980s.
“I am tired of folks discrediting a form of speech that is centered
on equality and freedom,” the lawmaker continued. “This is exactly how
they tried to discredit & stop the boycott to stand up against the
apartheid in S. Africa. It didn’t work then and it won’t now.”
Maher’s segment came one day after the Israeli government said it
would deny entry to Tlaib and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for their
support of the BDS movement following an appeal from President Trump.
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