Rep. Tlaib Urges Boycott of Bill Maher

Herbert Dyer, Jr.
4 min readAug 19, 2019
Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Bill Maher (Credit: Getty Images)

Freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has urged a boycott of comedian Bill Maher’s HBO show “Real Time,” following his no-holds-barred critique of the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions Movement (BDS) against the apartheid state of Israel. Maher accused adherents and advocates of BDS of engaging in a “bullshit purity test.”

Tlaib responded in a tweet that she has had it with “folks” like Maher…

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Herbert Dyer, Jr.

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