Screenshot from Facebook. A map in newly sworn-in Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-Mich.) office has a “Palestine” sticky note where Israel should be.
Here is the photo of the map:
Someone has already made a slight alteration to the map that hangs in Rashida Tlaib’s new congressional office. pic.twitter.com/mwyshIog4r
— Hannah Allam (@HannahAllam) January 3, 2019
The note was roundly mocked and condemned on Twitter:
Why does this person want to make Egypt Palestine? https://t.co/jhOYigdCJ3
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 3, 2019
https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1080890014861586433
https://twitter.com/NoahPollak/status/1080898906412613632
That arrow is pointing at Alexandria, which an enormous, vibrant Jewish community called home until it was massacred during the reign of the Roman emperor Trajan, whose project at the time, according to the historian Appian, was "exterminating the Jewish race in Egypt." https://t.co/2sbje6K6g2
— Ari Lamm (@AriLamm) January 3, 2019
Simon Wiesenthal Center Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper told the Journal in an email, “There is no country called Palestine.”
“The territory upon which the word ‘Palestine’ is affixed on this map is called the Palestinian territories,” Cooper added. “Palestinian statehood will be achieved, if and when, the Palestinian leaders are prepared to recognize the validity of the Jewish State as their neighbor.”
Tlaib was sworn into Congress on Thursday, with Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour attending. Tlaib supports a one-state solution and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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