Summary
A Minnesota congresswoman presented in Palestine: A Socialist Introduction as perhaps the most visible face of Black solidarity with Palestine, and, with Rashida Tlaib, one of the first two sitting US House members to endorse BDS (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1430-1445, 1689-1700, 1761-1777).
Details
- The interviewers’ question in Chapter 7 describes her as a Somali refugee, says she and Tlaib have defied the status quo narrative on Palestine in Congress, and says Sanders’s claim he will consider cutting funds to Israel followed Israel’s rejection of entry for their delegation to Palestine, in a leftward shift in the lead-up to the 2020 elections (line 1428).
- In her first term she repeatedly called attention to Israeli abuses, US support for them and the power of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington; Zionists led by President Trump attacked her as antisemitic using Islamophobic tropes, and a Pelosi-Hoyer resolution effort directed at her failed because of public support for her (lines 1689-1700).
- After Israel, at Trump’s suggestion, denied her and Tlaib access to Palestine for a congressional delegation, she shared the would-be itinerary on Twitter, highlighting recent Israeli abuses and solidarity efforts (lines 1692-1700).
- Chapter 7 treats her and Tlaib’s public endorsement of BDS as part of the shift making conditioning US aid to Israel far less taboo (lines 1430-1445).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Rashida Tlaib, BDS movement, Black–Palestinian solidarity