Rashida Tlaib

Rashida Tlaib (2018)

Rashida Harbi Tlaib (born Elabed ; born July 24, 1976 in Detroit ) is an American activist and politician of the Democratic Party . She has been a member of the United States House of Representatives for Detroit since 2019 .

Family, education and work

Rashida Tlaib is the oldest of 14 children in a Palestinian immigrant family. She graduated from Wayne State University in 1998 with a degree in political science and a 2004 law degree from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School . The attorney was the first Muslim to be elected to the Michigan regional parliament in 2008, to which she served until the end of the 2014 term. She then worked as a lawyer for a non-profit organization that offers free legal advice to people on low incomes.

She is divorced and a single mother of two children.

Political career

In the 2018 United States House of Representatives election , Tlaib was her party's candidate for Michigan's 13th Congressional constituency , which includes parts of downtown and suburbs of Detroit. The district is heavily dominated by the Democrats ( Cook Partisan Voting Index : D + 32) and was represented by John Conyers for decades . After winning the election, she and Ilhan Omar became the first Muslim ever to enter Congress . She has been a member of the 116th Congress since January 3, 2019 .

Positions and controversies

Tlaib are accused of making anti-Israeli statements. She describes Israel as an apartheid state, supported the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and calls for a one-state solution for Israel and Palestine.

After she was sworn in on January 3, 2019, Tlaib caused a stir when she described the US president as a “motherfucker” (often translated as “bastard” in German-language media), whom the Democrats would remove from office . Trump used this statement to portray himself as unfairly persecuted by the Democrats.

Since the election victory, she and her colleagues Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley have formed the informal group The Squad .

Tlaib spoke out in favor of Bernie Sanders ahead of the Democratic Party's presidential primary election in 2020 (" endorsement ").

Web links

Commons : Rashida Tlaib  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rashida Tlaib at the congress
• Campaign website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Todd Spangler: How Detroit's Rashida Tlaib will make history in Washington. In: Detroit Free Press. September 9, 2018, accessed November 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Maeve O'Brien: 24 hours with: Rashida Tlaib, potential first Muslim congresswoman. In: Michigan Daily. March 15, 2018, accessed November 7, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Rashida Tlaib becomes the first Muslim woman in Congress . FAZ . November 6, 2018. Retrieved November 6, 2018.
4. ↑ Young, Muslim, indigenous. In: Tagesschau. November 7, 2018, accessed November 7, 2018 . 
5. ↑ New US MP Tlaib threatens "bastard" Trump. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , January 4, 2019.
6. ↑ Gregory Krieg and Annie Grayer CNN: Rashida Tlaib joins Ocasio-Cortez, Omar in endorsing Bernie Sanders. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .