Detroit – Rashida Tlaib, the newly elected Democratic congresswoman from Michigan, said she will wear a traditional Palestinian robe for her swearing-in ceremony.
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“Sneak peek: This is what I am wearing when I am sworn into Congress. #PalestinianThobe #ForMyYama,” Tlaib wrote in an Instagram post on Friday. She posted a photo of the black robe embroidered with pink thread and other accent colors.
A thobe is a traditional hand-embroidered Palestinian garment. Yama is the Arabic word for mother.
Tlaib, who is Palestinian American and one of the first two Muslim women to be elected to Congress, told The Intercept in a story published earlier this month that she plans to eschew the AIPAC trip to Israel for new lawmakers and instead will lead a trip of incoming lawmakers to the West Bank.
In the same interview she also came out in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, which she said brings attention to “issues like the racism and the international human rights violations by Israel right now.”
Who cares what she wears?
Yes the new face of the democratic party. Feh.
I though that the traditional palestinian dress is a suicide belt
Let her make a total fool of herself, She should wear a full Burka.
As long as she doesn’t wear a traditional palistinian suicide vest.
Now of only Chuck Schumer would show up in a hat and jacket.
If she wants to wear those schmatas, let her!
What about the racism that the palestinians are doing in their territories and the anti semitism in all of the muslim countries?The human rights of her falestinian brothers and sisters that are constantly being violated by the plo ?
she was elected by a section densely populated by arabs and she will BE a havoc maker in congress as a representative of HAMAS anD HIZBOLLAH
Telling women what to wear rarely works out.
Who cares, and in other news the two Simchas will be wearing kippah to there swearing in
You think the Lefty loonies will cry “dual loyalty”?
Oh, I forgot, she is one of their anti-Semitic Muslim darlings, so she gets a pass.
#11 , I am from Maryland. I am in Buck’s County right now.
People born in British Palestine prior to the creation of the 2 state, Israel and Jordan are the true Palestinians. Many of had relatives born before 1948 whose place of birth on their birth certificates was Palestine and they wore bekeshas and shtreimlach.
I that she fails with vivid colors; we need her like a hole in the head!