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    Rep. Tlaib rejects Israel's offer to visit relatives, citing 'oppressive conditions'

    by Tracy Wilkinson and Noga Tarnopolsky, Los Angeles Times Aug 17, 2019 4 minutes

    JERUSALEM - Israel reversed itself, again, on Friday in announcing that Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib could visit, but only to see her grandmother. Tlaib said: No thanks.

    The Michigan congresswoman said Israel's decision to admit her to the country on "humanitarian grounds" was an attempt to silence and humiliate her.

    It was the second flip-flop by the Israeli government in less than 24 hours.

    One day earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under pressure from President Donald Trump, announced that his government would not allow Tlaib or Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. - a fellow Muslim and first-term House member - to enter Israel on a planned fact-finding

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