According to Buzzfeed’s reporter covering US Muslim life, the map in Rashida Tlaib’s new congressional office has already been altered to show Palestine on 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
Notice anything strange about the placement? Here, have a closer look:
Now you see it?
I’ll let Ben Shapiro point it out to you…
Why does this person want to make Egypt Palestine? https://t.co/jhOYigdCJ3
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 3, 2019
LOLOLOL! The arrow is pointing to the area of Northern Egypt just above Cairo. Hahaha! Problem solved!
All this time we thought Tliab was anti-Israel, but really she’s anti-Egypt!
One tweeter nailed a great response to Shapiro’s tweet:
To be fair, its never really existed so they dont know where it is.
— Zaggs (@Zaggs) January 3, 2019
Seriously though, we all know what was meant by this placement and it’s quite offensive. It’s essentially the same reason Marc Lamont Hill got fired from CNN, as it suggests the popular chant used by Hamas and other anti-Israel terror groups: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will soon be free.”
But then this is no surprise from an anti-Israel Palestinian Muslim who openly admitted she supports BDS and a ‘one state’ solution.