Posted on 01/18/2019 11:57:45 AM PST by jazusamo
Minnesota Democrat criticized for anti-Israel statements, BDS support
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been hit with a backlash over her decision to assign freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, despite the Minnesota Democrat’s record of anti-Israel advocacy.
The House Republican leadership blasted the decision, citing Ms. Omar’s 2012 tweet saying that Israel had “hypnotized the world” and was guilty of “evil doings,” as well as her support for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
“It is disgraceful that Speaker Pelosi and her Democrat majority gave a coveted seat on the House Foreign Relations Committee to a member who has a documented history of making anti-Semitic and anti-Israel remarks,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise said in a Thursday statement.
“Rather than standing up against the disturbing rise of anti-Semitic rhetoric on the left, House Democrats have now just endorsed that ideology,” he said.
House Republican Conference chair Liz Cheney called on Democrats to “correct this immediately,” while former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Friday that Mrs. Pelosi should “reverse herself.”
“Nancy Pelosi should ask Congresswoman Omar to step down, and if she doesn’t step down, the Democrat leadership should remove her,” Mr. Flesicher told Fox News.
Republicans weren’t alone. The move, which received extensive coverage in the Jewish and Israeli press, was also condemned by Jewish groups and advocates of Israel.
“So the @TheDemocrats thought it a good idea to reward @IlhanMN with a cushy appt!” tweeted former New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Democrat. “Was it her demonization of Israel that won her the spot? 2020 is around the corner. Good luck to Dems explaining this twisted move on the campaign trail!”
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Pelosi = Despicable.
The Democrat party is now embracing and promoting an Islamo Nazi.
Nancy is an American hating..baby killer..and a jew hater to boot.
That's the backlash? Like Pelosi cares what the Republicans think.
As if Anklepants and cankles haven’t already sold them all off...?
(over her decision to assign freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, despite the Minnesota Democrat’s record of anti-Israel advocacy.)
It’s actually BECAUSE of her anti-Israel advocacy. When will Jews wake up to realize the Democrat party hates them and hates Israel? Just like they cynically decided to attack and destroy white people because they figured that minorities will outnumber white people, and just like they cynically decided to tell women they are victims of men and unapologically do everything rabid feminists tell them to do, they have cynically sold out Jews in favor of Muslims as they figure Muslims will outnumber Jews in the US if things keep going the way they have.
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