Nancy Pelosi definitely rejected calls for actions to be taken against Ilhan Omar, who recently compared Israel and the U.S. to the Hamas and Taliban terror groups.
2019 ‘Anti-Semite of the Year’ Ilhan Omar was appointed to an important House subcommittee with jurisdiction over global human rights. The Coalition for Jewish Values demands it be rescinded.
Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and progressive Cori Bush in Missouri won their respective congressional races, as did Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia.
During her first run for office in 2018, Omar claimed BDS is ‘unhelpful,’ only to have her campaign admit shortly after her victory that she ‘believes in and supports’ boycotts of Israel.
Omar complained that she was ‘stricken with PTSD’ due to reports about U.S. strikes in Iraq, but video surfaced of her laughing during a press conference on recent events in the Middle East.
The anti-Israel lawmakers opposed a resolution affirming US support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and spread lies about Israel.
‘Our constitutional freedoms were attacked, and our nation’s founding on Judeo-Christian principles were. That’s what some people did. Got that now?’ asked Nic Haros.
For Israel to deny entry to advocates of its own dissolution should be as uncontroversial as denying entry to neo-Nazis. And it’s deeply worrying that even Israel’s genuine friends in America evidently think otherwise.
After getting banned from entering Israel for promoting boycotts of the Jewish state, Omar and Tlaib say the U.S. should halt aid to Israel if it doesn’t grant Palestinians their ‘rights.’
Rather than condemning the decision made by Netanyahu and his security advisers to bar Tlaib and Omar from Israel, pro-Israel groups should respect their judgment.
‘We are watching you Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer,’ Hikind declares, demanding that the spreading of Holocaust denial by two US congresswomen not be tolerated.
Israel’s high respect for both chambers and both parties in the US Congress supersedes deep reservations about the two legislators’ support of BDS and Muslim Brotherhood.
‘Millions of Holocaust survivors and their descendants, as well refugees from Soviet oppression living in Israel, will find such comparisons unfathomable.’
The top-ranking member of the U.S. Congress’ House Foreign Affairs Committee said on Monday that Ilhan Omar should be stripped of her post on the committee for her anti-Semitic comments.
It was a disgrace for Democrats not to condemn Omar for her anti-Semitism earlier in the year, but their attack on Republicans now for calling Tlaib out is far worse.
Change.org, a self-described ‘platform for change,’ undermined an appeal to the US government to investigate the infiltration of anti-Semitic groups in Congress.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) retweeted a post from a supporter of the U.S.-designated terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
A representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) claimed that a widely condemned tweet by U.S. congresswoman Ilhan Omar had no ‘anti-Semitic meaning.’
It’s discouraging to see the way Omar and Tlaib have gotten away with their slurs, but the response also proves that Jew-hatred won’t succeed in the US.
Widespread condemnation followed Minnesota Rep. Omar’s latest anti-Semitic tweet in which she accused the largest pro-Israel lobbying organization of paying members of Congress to back Israel.
Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York have exhibited anti-Israel sentiment and actions that will surely bear some influence.
A Somali-American Muslim woman running for a Democratic seat in Congress accused Israel of ‘evil doings’ in the Gaza Strip and called it an ‘apartheid state.’