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b'Rozina Ali profiles Rashida Tlaib, the 45-year-old second-term congresswoman from Detroit, who has risen from adverse circumstances to play a significant role in American politics, most notably bringing greater awareness to the ongoing conflict over Palestine.\\n\\nTlaib is the only Palestinian American serving in the House of Representatives, and the first with family currently living in the West Bank, whose three million inhabitants\\u2019 lives are, as Ali explains, \\u201cintimately shaped by American support for Israel.\\u201d\\n\\nThe article explores the criticism leveled at Tlaib, sometimes viciously, by Republicans and pro-Israel Democrats for calling Israel an \\u201capartheid regime,\\u201d and for her support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which aims to end military occupation by exerting economic pressure on Israel. She has been called antisemitic for her criticism of Israeli policies, and has become a favored quarry of Fox News.\\n\\nBut, as Ali explains, Tlaib\\u2019s arrival on the national stage coincided with an opening, albeit a small one, within the Democratic Party to challenge the United States\\u2019 Israel policy. At the same time that the left has gained a legible footing on the national stage, the Palestinian cause has become a significant part of the politics of the American left. And so Tlaib, a democratic socialist more outspoken on domestic issues than she is on the Palestinian cause, has found herself at the center of this turn.\\n\\nTlaib stands up for many causes \\u2014 but what, exactly, does she represent?'