Former Dem lawmaker booted from Muslim event after asking Rashida Tlaib: 'What about your anti-Semitism?'

The pro-Israel advocate was escorted out by police

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)/(Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

 BRECK DUMAS

Former Democratic New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind was removed from a Muslims for Peace event on Sunday, after he dared to ask keynote speaker Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), "What about your anti-Semitism? What about your blood libel?"

What are the details?

Mr. Hikind, a pro-Israel activist, posted video online showing him being interrupted and escorted out by police at Rutgers University when he attempted to ask Congresswoman Tlaib questions as she stood at the podium.n the clip, Hikind can be heard asking Tlaib, "What about your..." before he's interrupted and grabbed by a man wearing civilian clothes. "What about your anti-Semitism?" Hikind then shouts at Tlaib, "What about your blood libel?"
Tlaib appears to be attempting to calm the crowd by saying, "It's OK, no, no, no," and then she can be heard asking, "Can I answer the question?"
Police officers then gathered around Hikind and escorted him from the event — titled, "A Global Crisis: Refugees, Migrants, and Asylum Seekers - Lessons from the Prophet Muhammad" — as audience members chanted, "Rashida! Rashida!"

What's the background?

Hikind told Fox News that the event was not bad. He said he sat in the audience for almost three hours and "loved what they were saying," but when Tlaib came up to speak he confronted her over spreading the false claim last month that Israeli Jews had killed a Palestinian little boy. Qais Abu Ramila, 8, went missing in January. A Palestinian official retweeted an unsubstantiated claim that the boy had been kidnapped and murdered by Jews, and Tlaib, in turn, retweeted the message. Qais' death was later ruled an accidental drowning.
The Palestinian official, Hanan Ashrawi, later apologized "for retweeting something that's not fully verified," but Tlaib did not offer an apology herself.
"She point-blank accused Jews of killing a child," Hikind told The Washington Examiner. "I went to confront her. This is as fundamental as anything, this is not disagreeing with her on some policy matter like abortion or something, this is blood libel. When you say something like this, and it spreads all over the world."
"The Muslim community looks up to her, " Hikind continued. "When she says something like that, it's incredibly damaging. She owes the Jewish people an apology, period."
Rep. Tlaib's office refused to comment on the matter to The Examiner.