Column: What got Rep. Ilhan Omar kicked off that House committee? Payback and prejudice, not antisemitism (via latimesopinion )
that passed 218 to 211 along strict party lines, for making an antisemitic remark four years ago, for which she was condemned by her own caucus, and for which she apologized. And for describing Israel as an “apartheid state,” a characterization used by at least two major human rights groups. For saying that “unthinkable atrocities” must be condemned, no matter who commits them — America, Israel, Hamas, Afghanistan or the Taliban.
And for characterizing the 9/11 terrorist attacks as “some people did something.”, “puts America in jeopardy, and I’m not going to do that on my watch.” In a fundraising appeal Friday morning, he defended the move, warning that Omar’s words “directly imperil our alliance with our #1 ally in the Middle East: Israel.”How, exactly, does her contrarian view about Israel endanger the U.S.
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