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A group of Jewish US Congress members have issued a statement of support for Representative Rashida Tlaib following a cartoon last week in the National Review depicting her as having a pager exploding at her desk, appearing to depict her as a terrorist. The cartoon was published in the conservative publication in reference to recent explosions of pagers used by the Lebanese party and militia Hezbollah, a group designated as a “terrorist organisation” by the US government. As the only Palestinian Muslim in Congress, the magazine’s targeting of Tlaib appears to be depicting her for her backgroun…

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