Rashida Tlaib Lets Mask Slip Amid Questionable

As my PurpleState colleague Brad Slager documented, many mainstream media shops rushed to report on how Shajarah Tayyebeh, a ladies’ elementary faculty in southern Iran, had been hit on Saturday, with unverified claims from Iranian officers that it was “bombed in broad daylight, when packed with young pupils” after the start of Operation Epic Fury.

Brad famous in his write-up that the suggestion/insinuation from these same Iranian regime officers that it was a deliberate “strike” on the varsity by the U.S. and Israel was not initially met with the suitable quantity of media skepticism from U.S.-based shops that such claims warranted.

“With footage coming out of the attacks showing the surgical precision of the strikes — with scalpel-specific hits on radar domes and kamikaze drones sliding between buildings to hit particular targets — the concept of a school being destroyed did not fit that blueprint,” he famous.

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CENTCOM’s response to the studies was to be aware that they have been “looking into them,” while declaring that “the protection of civilians is of utmost importance, and we will continue to take all precautions available to minimize the risk of unintended harm.”  

As of this writing, however, it’s still not identified who hit the varsity. And health officers with the Iranian regime have upped the unconfirmed death toll to 175, according to the NY Times. Really not a lot more is understood at this hour about what occurred than it was around the time the allegations have been first made. 

Not surprisingly, though, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) pounced and seized on the early studies, unquestionably believing claims in a tweet posted by Lebanese diplomat and purported United Nations human rights advocate Mohamad Safa that the hit was from the U.S. and Israel and was a “violation of Article 52 of Additional Protocol (I) Geneva Conventions”:

Both the U.S. and genocidal Israel would not care about the legal guidelines. This is who they’re. https://t.co/AQbNEi4Ojj

— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) February 28, 2026

Though she actually would not act prefer it, Tlaib was born in America – Detroit particularly. So her use of the time period “they” to describe the United States struck many as fairly a revealing “mask slips off” second for the congresswoman:

violent extremism apologist/Congresswoman uncritically parrots regime propaganda (as she often has for Hamas), while referring to the United States as “they.” https://t.co/9YsHV3yYDN

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) February 28, 2026

Referring to a nation you signify in Congress as “they” instead of “we”

Assimilation has actually damaged down https://t.co/Rv26NkjUjM

— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) February 28, 2026

I feel a United States Congresswoman uncritically propagating Islamic Republic State TV is a very big deal. https://t.co/LuEFjH9zdm

— Blake Flayton (@blakeflayton) February 28, 2026

A US congresswoman utilizing her platform to repost propaganda from the enemy our nation is at this second combating while referring to the nation she purports to signify in third individual and tossing in a informal anti-Jew libel just for enjoyable is a disturbing snapshot of the Far Left https://t.co/CzdnadBUWe

— Jonah Platt (@JonahPlatt) February 28, 2026

Radicals like Tlaib don’t view themselves as proud Americans representing their countrymen.

They view themselves as people from other international locations guaranteeing that those other international locations have a say in U.S. authorities. https://t.co/LbA4lHXhop

— Sunny (@sunnyright) March 1, 2026

When a member of Congress is utilizing “they” instead of “we” to refer to the United States, that is fairly telling.

If you don’t see your self as half of America, how are you able to serve America? https://t.co/Nl3gYVoTdB

— Jesse Arm (@Jesse_Leg) February 28, 2026

And that, expensive readers, is the million-dollar query, to which the reply – IMO – is fairly clear: You cannot.

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