Lebanese Journalist Abdul Ghani Tlais: Benjamin Franklin Warned Americans Against Jewish Immigrati..

Lebanese journalist Abdul Ghani Tlais said, in a March 9, 2024 interview on LBC TV (Lebanon), that Western countries that support Israel now collected all their "garbage" and "dumped" it on the Arabs. Referencing a false antisemitic trope, he said that Benjamin Franklin, whom he called an American "president," had warned Americans in the 18th century against Jewish immigration. He said that France banished the Jews for practicing usury, and that Italy and Germany banished the Jews as well.

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