Tlaib Suggests Boycotting Bill Maher’s Show After He Criticized Anti-Israel Movement

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Feb. 27, 2019. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) suggested on Aug. 17 that viewers should boycott Bill Maher’s HBO show after the comedian criticized an international movement aimed at ending support for Israel.

During his program Real-Time on Aug. 16, Maher called the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement—which aims to cut off economic support for Israel—a “[expletive] purity test by people who want to appear woke but actually slept through history class.”