NYC Councilor Kalman Yeger faces sanction after tweeting “Palestine does not exist”
NYC Councilman Kalman Yeger could face sanctions and be “booted from the immigration committee after tweeting that ‘Palestine does not exist’ — but he refused to heed calls to apologize for the comment.” Of course Mayor Bill de Blasio is pushing for Yeger to apologize or be punished.
Yeger, like many others, has crossed the line of the currently acceptable public discourse by offending Muslim lobbies. His intention does not matter; nor does the fact that what he said was true. Yeger stated accurately:
My point was never about people. My point was about a location. A geographic reality and an international legal reality, a fact. There is no state by that name. There is no place by that name. That’s a fact. I didn’t make it up, I didn’t invent it, that’s official U.S. policy, that’s the policy of many, many nations around the world
Yeger has now been placed in the “racist” “Islamophobe” category, and are strenuous attempts to isolate and marginalize him. Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are free to spew their anti-Semitism with impunity, and any opposition to them is deemed “Islamophobic.”
“NYC Councilman Kalman Yeger faces sanction after ‘Palestine does not exist’ tweet,” by Jillian Jorgensen, New York Daily News, March 28, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A Brooklyn city councilman could be booted from the immigration committee after tweeting that “Palestine does not exist” — but he refused to heed calls to apologize for the comment.“Nope,” Councilman Kalman Yeger said when asked if he’d apologize. “For what?”Yeger tweeted on Wednesday that “Palestine does not exist,” sparking outrage from activists and eventual condemnation from elected officials who said the remark was unhelpful in moving toward a two-state solution in the Middle East.“He should definitely apologize, and I very vigorously condemned his comments in no uncertain terms, they have no place in New York City,” Council Speaker Corey Johnson said, adding that the city celebrates both its Jewish and Palestinian communities and that Yeger’s remarks were “dehumanizing.”“They are comments that create some sort of erasure of the Palestinian experience and I find those totally unacceptable,” Johnson said.But Yeger did not apologize — though he insisted his comments were not about the Palestinian people.“My point was never about people. My point was about a location. A geographic reality and an international legal reality, a fact. There is no state by that name. There is no place by that name. That’s a fact. I didn’t make it up, I didn’t invent it, that’s official U.S. policy, that’s the policy of many, many nations around the world,” Yeger said.The comments have led some to call for Yeger to be removed from the Council’s committee on immigration — which both Johnson and the committee’s chair, Councilman Carlos Menchaca, said was under consideration….
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