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<\/a><\/p>\nRepresentative Rashida Tlaib <\/p>\n
(Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS \/ AFP)<\/p>\n
However, The Venue Fort Lauderdale, which was scheduled to host the event, suddenly canceled it after State Representative Michael Gottlieb, chairman of the Florida Legislative Jewish Caucus, posted a statement on Thursday calling the planned rally an “anti-Jew” gathering.<\/p>\n
Tlaib has condemned antisemitism and says criticism of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and its attacks in Gaza and Lebanon is not antisemitic.<\/p>\n
The Venue in a statement cited “increased security concerns” for its decision and said it is Jewish-owned and “our values and commitment to the Jewish \u2060community are deeply important to us.”<\/p>\n
Prominent progressive Democrats, including Tlaib and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, have opposed U.S. support for Israel over Israeli attacks in Gaza and Lebanon, the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s close ties to Republicans, \u2060leading to an erosion of Democratic backing for Washington’s ally.<\/p>\n
The rally was organized by groups such as “Florida Youth Justice Coalition,” “Gen-Z For Change” and a local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.<\/p>\n
It was meant to support State Representative Angie Nixon, who is running for the U.S. Senate; \u2060and Elijah Manley and Oliver Larkin, who are seeking seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n
After The Venue withdrew its support, the event was expected to proceed Friday night at a Fort Lauderdale wine bar, an organizer told The New York Times.<\/p>\n
The Florida Democratic Progressive Caucus said the cancellation of the rally was rooted in anti-Muslim sentiment. Florida’s primary elections are scheduled for August 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Florida site backed out of hosting a rally with Democratic U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib, a vocal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-372258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}