Hundreds of spinoff Instagram reels, X posts and TikToks in which Somali Americans humorously claim that Minnesota was promised to them 3,000 years ago — a parody of some Israelis’ claim to Palestine — have gone viral.
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Hundreds of spinoff Instagram reels, X posts and TikToks in which Somali Americans humorously claim that Minnesota was promised to them 3,000 years ago — a parody of some Israelis’ claim to Palestine — have gone viral.