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Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib, among other members of the “progressive wing” of the Democratic Party known as ‘The Squad’, wore Palestinian keffiyehs and held signs that read “lasting ceasefire now” and “stop sending bombs” during President Joe Biden’s State of Union speech on Thursday. Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American Muslim woman to be elected to the US Congress, took part in the protest alongside fellow members of the US House of Representatives Summer Lee and Cori Bush. The congresswomen withheld their applause for Biden as he delivered his speech, despite the US President’s apparent cr…

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