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(WASHINGTON, DC – 11/21/2023) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today released an audio recording of pro-Israel activists allegedly using X Spaces (formerly Twitter Spaces) to strategize about how to target Rep. Rashida Tlaib during her visit to Arizona last weekend, including whether it would be possible to travel through Arizona with a gun and enter CAIR-Arizona’s annual banquet with a firearm or “shoot her from far away.”
Last week, Rep. Tlaib visited Arizona for both an appearance at Arizona State University and a speech at CAIR-Arizona’s annual fundraising banquet. Arizona State University cancelled Rep. Tlaib’s appearance at the school. The CAIR banquet went ahead at an alternate location after the original hotel venue cancelled the event.
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Days before Rep. Tlaib’s visit, a Twitter user who was monitoring a pro-Israel group’s Twitter Space about the congresswoman shared the audio recording with CAIR. During a discussion about ways to visit Arizona and disrupt Rep. Tlaib’s appearances, pro-Israel users went from debating whether it would be legal to scream a sexually explicit insult at Tlaib during the CAIR banquet to discussing Arizona’s gun laws.
In the audio recording, the users—many of them using profile photos celebrities and pseudonyms—note that a person can travel through Arizona with a firearm without a license and how difficult it would be to attempt to enter the CAIR-Arizona banquet with a gun because of the expected security precautions. One speaker named ‘Stealth’ who used then objects to the idea of bringing a gun to the CAIR-Arizona event.
Another user named ‘George’ then says, “So, Stealth, what I’m hearing is that if you want to shoot her at the event, you have to do it from far away.” Immediately after this remark, the user named Stealth objected and the X Spaces session ended soon thereafter.
LISTEN: Audio Recording of Pro-Israel X Spaces Discussing Targeting Rep. Tlaib (Full Audio)
Alleged Threat To Rep Rashida Tlaib
