Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) over the weekend compared the situation at the US-Mexico border to that of Gaza and Israel.
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"Do you know what I saw at the border? I saw Gaza," said Tlaib, the first Palestinian American woman in Congress, during her keynote address on Saturday at the American Muslims for Palestine conference in Chicago. "When you think about the border, you have to got to understand how interconnected the oppression in Palestine is with the oppression taking place at the border."
She also said that she's advocating for clean water in her Michigan district and "fighting for clean water in Gaza."
More than 3,500 people were at the three-day event, according to organizers.
Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.
