The dispute over Rep. Rashida Tlaib's canceled plans to visit her Palestinian grandmother has sparked a hashtag in which Twitter users take a break from cries of racism and anti-Semitism to remember the strength and resilience of their matriarchs
The dispute over US Rep. Rashida Tlaib's canceled plans to visit her aging Palestinian grandmother has been rife with ugliness. But it has also sparked the #MyPalestinianSitty hashtag, wherein Twitizens have taken a break from cries of racism and anti-Semitism to remember the strength and resilience of their matriarchs. Sitty is a colloquialism for"grandmother" in Arabic.Tlaib and her congressional colleague, Rep.
— Shath_aO August 17, 2019 Odeh's tweet was followed by a flood of remembrances, with grandchildren all over the world recalling their sittys' food, their kisses and embraces, their sacrifices, the lessons they imparted and the pride they took in their heritage. Others shared heartbreaking stories of women forced to leave their homes and dying before they'd have a chance to return. "Illiterate, but memorized the Quran front-to-back.
— hannah khalil August 18, 2019 "#MyPalestinianSitty use to walk along the Apartheid wall, up and down mountains, carrying a plastic tank of olive oil and fatayir to come see her grandchildren," said Hadeel Asi, ending her tweet with the transliterated Arabic words for,"May God have mercy on my grandmother Halimeh." #MyPalestinianSitty use to walk along the Apartheid wall, up and down mountains, carrying a plastic tank of olive oil and fatayir to come see her grandchildren.
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