Posted on 11/13/2018 5:58:57 AM PST by SJackson
Rashida Tlaib joined Ilhan Omar on election night to become one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress.
Tuning into the news at dawn on Wednesday, the extended family of Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress, celebrated her victory in their home in the West Bank.
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Tlaib, a Democrat, ran virtually unopposed in Michigan’s 13th congressional district, which encompasses southwest Detroit and its suburbs west to the city of Dearborn. She previously served in Michigan’s state legislature.
She has become “a source of pride for Palestine and the entire Arab and Muslim world,” her uncle, Bassam Tlaib, said in the small village of Beit Ur Al-Fauqa.
With her win, Tlaib, 44, will become the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in the U.S. Congress. Alongside incoming Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, she will also be one of the first Muslim women to join the congressional ranks.
“I’m going to speak truth to power,” Tlaib told the Detroit Free Press on election night on Tuesday. “I obviously have a set agenda that’s not going to be a priority for the current president but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to push back.”
Tlaib’s district is home to one of the largest Arab-American populations in the United States. Her win highlights a wave of Palestinian diaspora candidates and activists who have embraced the Democratic Party’s progressive wing at a low point in U.S.-Palestinian relations under Republican President Donald Trump.
In California’s 50th district, Ammar Campa-Najjar, a Palestinian-American who spent part of his childhood in Gaza and whose father served in the Palestinian Authority, was in a close race with incumbent Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter, early results showed.
“The success of [Tlaib and Campa-Najjar’s] progressive messaging on a wide range of issues, including Palestine, is reflective of a shifting public discourse that Palestine activists have played a role in shaping,” said Omar Baddar, deputy director of the Washington-based Arab American Institute.
In Ramallah and throughout the territory, Palestinians took a cautious view of the election news.
“Change is incremental, and Palestinians in Palestine are intimately aware of that,” said Salem Barahmeh, executive director of the Ramallah-based Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy.
“That said, Tlaib’s election is seen as a glimmer of hope in a very dark chapter in the Palestinian people’s history,” Barahmeh added.
Bassam Tlaib, the candidate’s uncle, said she had “stood against Trump” at a time when “even our Arab leaders are unwilling to face (him).”
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Glad they're happy.
She has become “a source of pride for Palestine and the entire Arab and Muslim world,” her uncle, Bassam Tlaib, said in the small village of Beit Ur Al-Fauqa.
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Maybe she should have run for office in her own country instead of one she hates.
Not nearly as much to loot in her own country.
How can she be a Palestinian-American when there is no such place as Palestine?
She’s the “first” so she has to be good for America..?
The infinite wisdom of he media manifests itself one more time, My FRiend.
For all our Comservative conversation and work, I dom't feel like we did much good last week.
We have a little more than a month to approve as many good, conservative judges as we can.
They're gonn'a lock up any momentum for at least another year and a half and look how much damage was done in one day ?!
I would not say so. But I am not the media.
Of course she’s a dimbulbcrat.
Fits the mold.
Oh well, will just have to wait for Revolution II.
Let’s just keep those guillotine plans.
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
I'm not. Anytime those people cheer I know something bad has happened.
I still don’t know what the phrase actually means...
These types of immigrants aren’t here to become Americans. They are here to destroy America by emulating their former “shithole” nations.
Well, I guess that means the rest of us are screwed..!
Drip, drip, drip.
Maybe they are using maps from the Roman or Byzantine empires?
Always remember, it was a Palestinian immigrant who changed the political and cultural direction America was heading, back in June of 1968. We still suffer from what he did today.
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