Rashida Tlaib

Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets fired from the Gaza Strip over the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, May 16, 2021. (Avi Roccah/Flash90)
Iron Domegate is a victory in disguise for Palestine advocates
The dramatic vote in Congress over extra funding for Iron Dome has widened a public debate on the occupation that Israel and its allies would prefer to avoid.
By Mitchell Plitnick October 6, 2021
Delegates react to then-Vice President Joe Biden's speech during the closing night of the 2012 Democratic National Convention held at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on September 6, 2012. (Jared Soares/PBS NewsHour/CC BY-NC 2.0)
This ‘progressive’ Israel lobby group has a racism problem
Democratic Majority for Israel has come under fire over a series of offensive social media posts, highlighting the group's aggressive and racist tactics.
By Alex Kane May 5, 2021
Screenshots of a Jewish Voice for Peace panel on antisemitism, featuring commentator Peter Beinart, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, historian Barbara Ransby, and scholar Marc Lamont Hill.
Panel on racism seeks to dispel notion that anti-Zionism is antisemitism
A discussion hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace attempts to link the fight against antisemitism with the greater struggle against all forms of oppression.
By Mairav Zonszein December 18, 2020
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Protest by Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Berkeley, Sep. 23, 2014. (Ariel Hayat/Flickr)
False charges of antisemitism are the vanguard of cancel culture
The right is voicing alarm over progressive views restricting free speech, but says nothing about how antisemitism is weaponized to quash speech on Israel.
By Mairav Zonszein July 28, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 21, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)
For Palestinian rights movement, Biden poses a familiar quandary
Palestine advocates in the U.S. have no hope in Joe Biden changing his staunch pro-Israel views, yet feel they have no choice but to pressure him to do so.
By Alex Kane May 8, 2020
Palestinian women protest against violence against women organized by the Center for Women's Programs in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 26, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
+972’s Story of the Year: Palestinian women rise worldwide
From the streets of Palestine-Israel to the U.S. Congress, 2019 saw Palestinian women not only challenging historical injustices, but fighting to right present-day wrongs. Now they are rewriting the future.
By +972 Magazine December 29, 2019
Rowaida Abu Eid tries Palestine VR, an app that offers virtual tours of six regions in the West Bank and Gaza. (Screenshot of a a PIPD video)
New VR app circumvents Israel’s travel bans, takes viewers across Palestine
Palestine VR offers virtual tours across the West Bank and Gaza, allowing viewers to ‘see the reality on the ground’ themselves.
By Jaclynn Ashly November 13, 2019
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) speaking at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 17, 2011. (Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0)
When white nationalists ask Jews to condemn anti-Semitism
Two American-Jewish activists went to a Republican congressman's town hall and asked him if he would condemn his party's white nationalism and anti-Semitism. Instead, he pointed his finger at progressive women of color and touted his support for Israel.
By Ezra Oliff-Lieberman October 18, 2019
Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian man during a raid on the West Bank city of Hebron, September 20, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
In Hebron, Tlaib and Omar would have seen Israel’s apartheid city
Had Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar been allowed to visit Hebron, they would have seen Israel’s official policy of discrimination and segregation for the city’s 215,000 Palestinian residents. By Avner Gvaryahu Outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron lies a beautiful leafy garden. In it stands a large stone with the names of the…
By +972 Magazine August 28, 2019
A mural depicting President Donald Trump kissing an Israeli army watchtower is seen on the separation barrier in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, August 4, 2017. (Flash90)
Israel’s one-state reality is sowing chaos in American politics
Until U.S. lawmakers and major Jewish organizations adjust to the current one-state reality, the acrimony that has marked the last several years under Netanyahu and Trump will only intensify. For decades, the two-state solution has been the central pillar of the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus in Washington. Since the signing of the Oslo Accords, every single U.S. administration has been…
By Joshua Leifer August 26, 2019
A photo taken near the ruins of the shrine of Saint Barbara in the West Bank village of Aboud. (Bukvoed/CC-BY-4.0)
For Netanyahu and Trump, Palestinian Christians are only pawns for political gain
We are an integral part of the Palestinian people, yet we are virtually invisible for those in the White House who claim to care about Christianity. By Fr. Emmanuelle Awwad When Israel barred Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from visiting Palestine last week, it was a clear attempt to keep the congresswomen from witnessing…
By +972 Magazine August 23, 2019
A photo of my Palestinian grandmother, Najwa Qattan. (Courtesy of Nooran Alhamdan)
My Palestinian sitty embodies the humanity Israel tries to deny us
My grandmother is not just a beacon of warmth and love. Not just my first best friend. She is a survivor. She is the compass that points to justice. By Nooran Alhamdan My grandmother was my first best friend. As soon as I’d be dropped off at her house, almost daily, the hotheaded and spoiled…
By +972 Magazine August 20, 2019
Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. (Stephanie Kenner/Shutterstock)
What occupation looks like for Rashida Tlaib’s village in the West Bank
Forty years of land grabs, settlement expansion, and the building of a highway that is off limits to Palestinians. This is what is happening to Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib’s village. By Dror Etkes The West Bank village of Beit Ur al-Fauqa made headlines over the weekend, after Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib announced she would not accept…
By +972 Magazine August 18, 2019
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