The wearing of a US congressman of Palestinian origin, Rachida Tlaib, a T-shirt with a map of occupied Palestine covering the lands on which Israel is based since its usurpation of the Arab country and the declaration of its state in 1948 until today has caused a sensation in the political and media circles in Israel and the United States American.
The Washington Free Bacon headlined the story in Manchette, in which she said: "Rachida Tlaib appears in a picture wiping Israel off the map."
The director of the US "Carmen Strategic Group" attacked Alex Vance, Member of Congress Rachida Tlaib, and took the opportunity, tweeting against her on Twitter, saying: "You are against the two-state solution," referring to a previous tweet that Taleb sent to Netanyahu, in which he told him: "You are destroying the two-state solution and forever hiding the rules that you can base on."
For his part, Han Mazing, the Democratic nominee in the primaries, called for Bernie Sanders to take a stand on this picture, as Rachida Taleb was a Sanders campaign activist, and Mazing accused her of slipping into "anti-Zionism" and even "anti-Semitism."
"This is a model of how bloody propaganda is going through in the 2020 elections," said Rashida Taleb, director of the Anti-Defamation League of America.
The picture in which Talib appeared on the occasion of her promotion of the book of the American activist of Palestinian origin, Linda Sarsour, "We are not passing through," which doubled the pace of the campaign.
Linda Sarsour, also an American of Palestinian origin, is considered one of the rising human rights faces in the political scene in the United States. She was also subjected to a counter campaign from the pro-Israel circles recently, which resulted in her being dismissed from the leadership of the American "Women March" in 2018, along with other activists. Like fashion designer Bob Bland and African-American activist Attica Mallory, for "anti-Semitism".
Sarsour is currently participating in the campaign for the Democratic presidential candidate in the primary, Sanders, along with Taleb.
Linda Sarsour's book revolves around her experience as an American of Palestinian origins, born in Brooklyn, and her adolescence coincided with the events of September 2001, and she faced American society as an Arab and Muslim woman veiled in that atmosphere, and despite that she stormed the public work field as a feminist and defender of marginalized societies, and the book reviews her career that held In it to defend its identity and convictions.
"I ask you how you can be as an American against white supremacy and refuse to live in a racist state in the United States, while at the same time it supports another state based on racial superiority, which is Israel," she said in one of her often enthusiastic speeches. Which believes that the Jews are superior to the rest of the people ».
It is worth noting that Rachida Tlaib appeared before this photo with Linda Sarsour on another occasion, while she is wearing the Palestinian dress with her, noting that this dress reminds her of her mother.
- Demanding Democratic candidate in the primaries, Bernie Sanders, to take a stand against Rashida Taleb, an activist in the Sanders campaign, after accusing her of "anti-Zionism" and "Semitism."