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The "new look" in Congress
As Rashida Tlaib prepared to be sworn in as the first Palestinian-American congresswoman on Thursday, she wore a traditional Palestinian robe — and was joined by activist Linda Sarsour.
“It’s a national holiday, I’m doing no work today,” Sarsour, who is also Palestinian-American, said in a video she posted on Facebook. “You’re witnessing history today,” she added.
Tlaib, Sarsour and others in attendance outside her office were wearing a thobe, a traditional Palestinian robe. Tlaib wrote in Elle magazine that she was wearing the thobe to honor her mother, a who dropped out of school in the West Bank in eighth grade and worked as a tailor. “It fills me with joy to be able to show aspects of Palestinian culture,” she wrote. Dozens of other people have posted pictures on social media of themselves wearing thobes in honor of the occasion.
Tlaib, a Democrat from Michigan, is believed to be the first Democratic member of Congress to endorse the one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She has also said she supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel and has called for cuts to U.S. military aid to the Jewish state, all of which have led her to be criticized by Jewish groups.
Justin Amash, a Republican also from Michigan, became the first Palestinian-American congressman in 2011.
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1 comment:
NO SUCH THING AS A ''''palistinian garb''''.
They never had their own culture NEVER!!!
No separate language food dress or any traditions.
If you read their leaders of the past they admit that the term palsitinian was created and used for political purposes and they came from southern Syria and Egypt.
The author of this article either has an agenda to PUSH the arabs on ISRAEL OR IS IGNORANT OF HISTORY.
The original term was coined by the romans toinsult ISRAEL by not allowing Jews to call themselves Israeli or Hebrew.That was the 2nd century.The philishtines as they were known as came fromgreece /crete and were sea people. NO DNA IN THE WORLD CAN CONNECT THEM TO THE PRESENT DAY ARABS IN GAZA ISRAEL/
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