US lawmaker Rashida Tlaib condemns cartoon showing her with exploding pager

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US lawmaker Rashida Tlaib condemns cartoon showing her with exploding pager

By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – ************ ********* U.S. lawmaker Rashida Tlaib on Friday condemned as ******* a cartoon published in the ************* magazine National Review showing her with an exploding pager – a reference to an ******* this week against members of the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon.

“Our community is already in so much pain right now. This racism will incite more hate + ********* against our ***** & ******* communities, and it makes everyone less safe. It’s disgraceful that the media continues to normalize this racism,” Tlaib wrote on the social media platform X.

Tlaib, a Democrat who represents a district from Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives, is the lone ************ ********* lawmaker in the U.S. Congress. The ******* ********* advocacy group Emgage Action, Democratic U.S. House members Cory Bush and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, some local officials in Michigan and human rights groups also criticized the cartoon.

National Review did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The cartoon, published on Thursday, showed a woman sitting next to an exploding pager. The woman’s desk in the cartoon had a name card saying “Rep. Tlaib” while the woman herself is shown saying: “ODD. MY PAGER JUST EXPLODED.”

The cartoon was created by Henry Payne, a Detroit News auto critic. Payne’s X account titled the cartoon as “Tlaib Pager ******.” The Detroit News said it was not involved in its creation and distribution, and chose not to run it.

Thousands of pagers used by members of Hezbollah in Lebanon exploded on Tuesday. That was followed a day later by the ********** of hand-held radios in Lebanon, with dozens ******* and thousands wounded in the incidents. Security sources have said ******* was responsible. ******* did not take responsibility.

*******’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has ******* more than 40,000 Palestinians, according to health officials in the ******-ruled enclave, and created a humanitarian crisis. *******’s ******** followed an ******* by ****** on Oct. 7, 2023, that ******* 1,200 people and in which about 250 were taken ********, according to ******** tallies.

Tlaib has been a fierce critic of *******’s actions in the war and ********* support for the longtime U.S. ally.

Human rights advocates have cited rising dehumanization of ******, Muslims and Jews amid the war.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Will Dunham)

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