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# Local Official Says Palestine Doesn’t Exist, Refers To People As “So-Called Palestinians”
- URL: https://bklyner.com/councilman-kalman-yeger-says-palestine-doesnt-exist-refers-to-people-as-so-called-palestinians/
- Published: 2018-03-29T17:54:22.000Z
- Updated: 2018-03-29T17:54:22.000Z
- Author: Zainab Iqbal
- Tags: Borough Park, Central Brooklyn, News, Nonsponsored, yeger, #wp

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Kalman Yeger, at a CB14 meeting in 2015\. (Photo via BKLYNER)

BORO PARK – Councilman Kalman Yeger, representing District 44, yesterday referred to the Palestinian people as “so-called ‘Palestinians,'” responding to a tweet about[ Ahmad Tibi wanting to become the prime mister of an Israel-Palestinian state](http://www.newsweek.com/man-who-would-be-president-palestinian-state-798523?ref=bklyner.com). He has also claimed that “there’s no such thing as Palestine.”

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This is not the first time Yeger has discredited Palestine or Palestinians on Twitter. On April 26, 2016, when Yeger was not yet a councilman but a member of Community Board 14, he tweeted in a Twitter thread of Bernie Sanders who said he’d get the Democratic nomination, putting Palestine in quotes.

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That was not the only time he tweeted at Sanders.

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Nor was it the only time he tweeted “there’s no such thing as Palestine.”

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Yeger had[ won the Democratic nomination for then-Councilmember David Greenfield’s open position last summer. ](/kalman-yeger-running-city-council-endorsed-greenfield/)Greenfield endorsed him and declined to comment on Yeger’s tweets.

Yeger’s office told BKLYNER: “The tweet stands for itself.”

While the USA does not officially recognize Palestine, [U.N. General Assembly voted in 2012 to recognize Palestinian state](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/un-general-assembly-votes-to-recognize-palestinian-state/?ref=bklyner.com), and [much of the rest of the world (137 countries) does](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%5Frecognition%5Fof%5Fthe%5FState%5Fof%5FPalestine?ref=bklyner.com#cite%5Fnote-85).