Tim Kaine and the Muslima Duo non visit

US Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib (the duo) requested visas to visit Israel.

At first Israel said it would approve. After President Trump advised against approval and after the visiting schedule for the duo was presented (one of the groups that the duo would have worked with is a notorious supporter of terror), Israel  disapproved the request. Then Tlaib requested to visit her grandmother in the West Bank (in an area without an Israeli security presence) and promised not to engage in BDS advocacy. Israel approved this request then Tlaid said that she would not go.
All this led to some criticism of Israel by a number of people and organizations. This criticism led to charges of hypocrisy.

It's complicated and I'm going to focus in on two cases. One involves Senator Tim Kaine (shown in the first image, from a 2014 visit to Israel, with Senator Angus King of Maine and PM Netanyahu of Israel).  Kaine is one of the more pro Israel Democrats.  He cosponsored, with Senator Cruz, an resolution condemning anti Semitism in 2018, which to some was taken as criticism of the duo. The other case is of former VP Joe Biden who, while he was in the Senate, was another pro Israel Democrat. 

Kaine's criticism of the Israel decision to disapprove the visa (before the approval of Tlaib to visit her grandmother) was via a tweet. His tweet was, 

"PM Netanyahu – Drop your Muslim ban. Congress votes over and over again to provide unprecedented security assistance to Israel. Banning any member disrespects us all."

This has been called hypocritical since the US banned visitation by an Israeli legislator several times and also has banned elected officials in other countries from visiting the US. I don't think Kaine's comment is hypocritical because Kaine considers that because the US provides security assistance, this changes the situation (Kaine's comment about the Muslim ban is either incredibly ignorant, careless or mendacious since each year Israel issues visas to tens of thousands of visitors from predominantly Muslim countries and has a Muslim population of over one million). It also carries an implied threat i.e., to reduce security assistance (a threat I consider despicable and worse than hypocrisy but that's another subject).

Biden (in the second image with Netanyahu) also criticized the decision via a tweet,

I have always been a stalwart supporter of Israel—a vital partner that shares our democratic values. No democracy should deny entry to visitors based on the content of their ideas—even ideas they strongly object to. And no leader of the free world should encourage them to do so.

As far as I know neither Kaine nor Biden (nor most of the various organizations which initially criticized the Israeli decision) revised their criticism after Israel offered the conditional visa to Tlaib.

Biden's comment could also be called hypocritical because the US barred the Israeli legislator but for the fact that Biden is known to misremember or fantasize things (most famously he fantasized his own life mistaking it for the life of a British Member of Parliament and praised the non existent speech by FDR at the time of the 1929 stock market crash). 

Interestingly, one article I found that used the word 'Hypocritical' was in the Israel Times. The article was titled, " The Troubling Hypocrisy of Omar, Tlaib, and AOC ". I can't actually figure out what the hypocrisy is here. In any event hypocrisy isn't as bad as downright vicious hatred. Omar and Tlaib and others have made various statements that, in my opinion, drip with it.  

Omar and Tlaib (who put the cartoon in their instagram posts) and anti Israel groups have conflated visit denial with censorship. See image 3 which is from the works of Carlos Latuff, who won a prize in the 2006 Holocaust Cartoon Contest (Iran has this annually).

Another piece I saw used the word 'hypocritical' in a more global way in that, in that opinion, liberals insist that Israel have a good relationship with the American President when that President is a Democrat but not otherwise.

A story about the banning of an Israeli legislator is here.

The resolution to condemn antisemitism is discussed in this article in the Israel Times.

Article in The Forward (which opposes Israeli's denial of the visas) with various people's opinion and some background is here. It also includes lots of links to various statements.

Biden's tweet is in this opinion piece. The piece from the Intercept (which is sympathetic to Omar and Tlaib) has internal links to the primary sources for statements.

Biden's misremembering of his own life is here. Biden's comments about the non existent FDR speech is here.

The terrorism friendly group working with Omar and Tlaid is discussed here.

Opinion piece about the relationship of Israel and the US president is here.

Story about the cartoon is here.