US-Palestinian lawmaker Rachida Tlaib on Friday rejected an offer by the Israeli authorities to allow her to visit her elderly grandmother in the occupied West Bank, saying the conditions imposed by the Jewish state on the visit "unfair."
"I have decided that my grandmother's visit under these unfair conditions is incompatible with everything I believe in fighting racism, injustice and injustice," the 43-year-old Democrat said in a tweet on Twitter.
"When I won, I gave the Palestinian people hope that in the end somebody would tell the truth about inhuman conditions."
"I cannot allow the State of Israel to steal this light from the path of my humiliation and to use my love for my grandmother to submit to its repressive and racist policies," she said, stressing that "silencing me and treating me as a criminal is not what my grandmother wants me to do." "This will kill a piece of me."
Talib's position came in response to Israeli Interior Minister Arieh Deri's decision to allow her to enter the Jewish state for a "humanitarian visit to her grandmother," the day after Israel announced that it would block the visit of Talib and her colleague because the two US deputies support efforts to boycott Israel because of its occupation of Palestinian land and its policy towards them.
But the ministry said in a statement that the decision to allow it a "humanitarian visit" was made after Talib pledged in a letter to "respect the conditions imposed by Israel."
The ministry confirmed that Talib «promised not to promote the issue of boycotting Israel during her visit».