{"id":2195111,"date":"2024-03-07T22:14:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T03:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-of-the-union-2024-squad-members-don-palestinian-keffiyehs-for-speech\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T22:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T03:14:02","slug":"state-of-the-union-2024-squad-members-don-palestinian-keffiyehs-for-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-of-the-union-2024-squad-members-don-palestinian-keffiyehs-for-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Union 2024: \u2018Squad\u2019 members don Palestinian keffiyehs for speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstate-of-the-union-2024-squad-members-don-palestinian-keffiyehs-for-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2195111&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Cori Bush (D-MO), and Summer Lee (D-PA) donned Palestinian keffiyehs for President Joe Biden\u2019s State of the Union address.<\/p>\n<p> Photos showed the three progressive House \u201cSquad\u201d members donning the scarves as a symbolic act. The keffiyeh has served as the symbol of Palestinian nationalism and resistance to Israel, making it controversial.<\/p>\n<p> Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) dons a scarf as Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), top, looks on before President Joe Biden arrives to deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 7, 2024. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite) The white scarf is covered mostly in a fishing net design, representing one of the main livelihoods of Palestinians before 1948.<\/p>\n<p> Many Israelis and Jews find the garb offensive, largely due to its adoption by several Palestinian militant groups, such as Hamas and the Palestinian Liberation Organization.<\/p>\n<p> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p> The Squad has expressed harsh criticism against Biden over his stance on the war in Gaza. Several have accused the president of facilitating a genocide against Palestinians and threatened to withdraw their support in November if he doesn\u2019t change course.<\/p>\n<p> Bush was among several Squad members who said earlier on Thursday that Biden was not doing enough to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Cori Bush (D-MO), and Summer Lee (D-PA) donned Palestinian keffiyehs for President Joe Biden\u2019s State of the Union address. Photos showed the three progressive House \u201cSquad\u201d members donning the scarves as a symbolic act. The keffiyeh has served as the symbol of Palestinian nationalism and resistance to Israel, making it controversial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2195112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24068065920345-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24068065920345-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2195112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}