Ilhan Omar to keynote event alongside antisemite days after AIPAC rant

Jerusalem Post ^ | February 12, 2019 | Ilanit Chernick, MAAYAN HOFFMAN

[SJackson]

Omar will be speaking alongside a well-known Islamic Relief USA official, Yousef Abdallah, who has openly advocated for violence against Jews and has shared antisemitic sentiments on social media.

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar will be a keynote speaker at an Islamic Relief USA emergency fundraising dinner for Yemen in Tampa, Florida, on February 23.

Omar will be speaking alongside a well-known Islamic Relief USA official, Yousef Abdallah, who has advocated for violence against Jews and has shared antisemitic sentiments on his social media pages.

The Middle East Forum’s Islamist Watch blog highlighted this address, and reported several instances in which Abdallah posted or shared stories of incitement. This includes his captioning and sharing a “very beautiful [folk] story” about “martyrs” who provide guns to “kill more than 20 Jews” and “fire rockets at Tel Aviv.”

In addition, the forum also found that he had referred to Jews as “stinking,” and had claimed that “the Jews set the outside wall of al-Aqsa [mosque in Jerusalem] on fire.”

Abdallah also liked a comment on one of his Facebook posts that called on God to wreak “revenge on the damned rapists Zionists... Shake the Earth beneath their feet and destroy them as you destroyed the peoples of ‘Ad, Thamud and Lot.”

Islamic Relief has been found to have connections to funding terrorism and Islamic extremism. A Swedish government report named it as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood; the Tunisian government is reported to have investigated allegations that Islamic Relief was funding jihadists on the Libyan border; and members of the US Congress have launched an inquiry into a reported FBI and IRS investigation of Islamic Relief’s activities.

The announcement of Omar’s speaking engagement comes just days after the congresswoman, a famed Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) supporter, pointed an accusatory finger at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), saying the organization is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel.

Omar’s commented erupted a Twitter hurricane with leaders on the Right and Left condemning her remarks. Even her own Democratic Party issued a statement in which it called Omar’s statements “deeply offensive. We condemn these remarks.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reported on Twitter that she and Omar had spoke and “agreed that we must use this moment to move forward as we reject antisemitism in all forms.”

On Monday, the Union for Reform Judaism’s President Rabbi Rick Jacobs condemned the tweet, saying that “in the strongest terms Rep. @IlhanMN’s tweets trafficking in stereotypes about Jews, money, and political power.”

“These tropes have for generations been at the core of acts of hate directed at the Jewish community,” he continued. “To see such sentiments expressed by a member of Congress is shameful, and they cannot be allowed to go unanswered. I welcome the statements from congressional leaders and others who have condemned her tweets.”

He added that “moving forward, I urge Rep. @IlhanMN to engage with members of the Minnesota Jewish community, as well as with national Jewish leaders, to explore the pain her words have caused and the impact of perpetuating anti-Semitic themes.”

Also commenting on the matter, left-wing Jewish organization JStreet said in a statement that “elected officials should be particularly sensitive and careful on the question of the role played by campaign contributions in influencing US policies toward Israel and the Middle East.

“There is no doubt that money often plays a major role in our political system,” the organization said. “At the same time, elected officials must be extremely aware that tropes about Jewish money and political influence have been used for centuries to target and stigmatize our community.”

The Jerusalem-based media watchdog, HonestReporting, invited Omar to join a mission to “see the real Israel.”

In an open Twitter letter, HonestReporting asked Omar to “visit our country for yourself.”

“It’s unfortunately no surprise to see young people, elected representatives included, make false allegations and misleadingly depict Israel and its connections to American and world Jewry, when they themselves have been exposed to biased narratives in the media,” said HonestReporting’s executive director Daniel Pomerantz. “The best way to counteract this is by inviting people to visit the country and see it for themselves.”

The HonestReporting mission will run May 27 through June 3. Participants will tour Israel and meet with Jewish and Arab leaders. Even US President Donald Trump got into the discussion. En route to El Paso for his “Make America Great Again” rally on Monday, the president slammed Omar. She should “be ashamed of herself,” Trump said, in a statement published by USA Today. “I think it was a terrible statement.” Omar apologized for her tweet soon after posting it.

“Antisemitism is real, and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of antisemitic tropes,” Omar posted on the social media site. “My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole.”

She then said she stood behind her comment regarding the “problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC, NRA or the fossil fuel industry.” Trump called Omar’s apology “inadequate.”

On Tuesday, the US president called on Omar to resign, saying she “should either resign from Congress or she should certainly resign from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.”

[Drew68]

Surely, there is enough dirt on this skank to get her removed.

She committed incest and/or immigration fraud, marrying her brother to secure for him a visa if anyone would like to look into this?

Laura Loomer was but conservatives would rather shut her up than investigate what she's talking about.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Another Islamic psychobitch GIFT who keeps on giving.

She and Tlaib can open up a “Tents R Us” store in Minnesota. Keith Ellison will be their first customer.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

On 9/11 Omer was having a rendezvous, a “Midnight at the Oasis” with a stud male camel. Everything else is irrelevant except how she and her family got here, and why.

Somalis are among the most psycho Moslems in Africa, and cruelest outside of the Algerian throat-cutter extremists, the Moroccan terrorists, and it ISIS affiliate Boko Harum, the Nazis of Nigeria/Mali and Cameroons.

[SunkenCiv]

• Omar To Keynote Event Alongside AntiSemite
• Hours after apology, Ilhan Omar retweets thread denouncing Pelosi, pushing Jewish money claims
• Rashida Tlaib wrote column for Louis Farrakhan publication in 2006

[blueplum]

Islamic relief for yemen? sounds like funding for Iran-backed terrorists

[blueplum]

this child apparently has a verrry long learning curve. Maybe too long to acclimate to American ideals - ever. Somali refugees need to be returned to their country same as Haitian, or any other refugee whose home country is now stable

[caww]

These womens Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., left, joined at right by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich associations should be a huge warning to everyone...they are a danger to our Republic with those they are associating and standing with .....

When he is not in front of the cameras at interfaith events, his private social media posts reveal an intense, violent anti-Semitism.

Islamic Relief regularly encourages hatred against women, Jews, Christians, and Muslims belonging to minority sects through their sponsorship of fundamentalist imams and activists at their events..... IR was founded by prominent members of the Muslim Brotherhood, regularly provides platforms to some of the West’s most extreme hate preachers, and both the Egyptian and Emirati governments have accused the charity of funding extremism and terror.

[caww]

Yes!

But this is what happens when Muslims are allowed to grow in numbers and then move into our governing bodies. They are simply doing what Islam does..... The muslim Brotherhood and other extreme leaders will determine what and how they operate within their offices politically and otherwise.....and dipsite what these representatives might think otherwise they will do as they are told.

As for Somalis and muslims in africa yes.....but also within our own society.......let’s just quote Obama.. “There’s a reaction that’s been bred in our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that’s just the nature of race in our society.” -Obama-

[Long Jon No Silver]

The media always looking for the next white Hitler amongst conservatives when in all likely hood it will be a person of color Nazi

[caww]

.....”This will be a fundamental change, most likely a permanent one. The face of the Democratic Party will be wearing a Jihab. They (ALL) need to think about what that symbolizes. ..How close they are to supporting Sharia. That is what all of this is leading up to. Make no mistake!”.....

Now their in offices this will accelerate the spread of Sharia law in tandem with the Islamization of America. Already media, political, education and prison systems in particular are gaining momentum.

It is not radical Islam it is Islam itself!...Muslims groups founded by known terrorists organizations like CAIR are allowed to flourish and push their agenda.... They along with Liberal views and political correctness give a special status to Islam that other religions/ideologies don’t enjoy making national discussion of the problems with Islam almost impossible.

Unfortunately there are far too many Americans who are willing to remain stupid and let the proponents of sharia take over this nation.

[grumpygresh]

Can’t GOP make a referral to ethics committee? That would take her off other committees while she is investigated.

She should be forced to visit the Holocaust museum in DC with a Holocaust survivor and Jewish expert on the Holocaust.

[caww]

There is a lot of misinformation from the media about Islam in America, and unfortunately, it takes time and effort to figure these things out. It’s much easier to just accept everything you see on TV and let it go at that.. But that’s a huge mistake.

There is definitely an organized effort to Islamize America and they don’t hide it..... For example, the Muslim American Society arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, has a stated goal, in their own words, of “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.” Hello ....and Islam, as Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna proclaimed, is content with nothing less than political, cultural, and civilizational dominance.”

Europe has appeased Islamists who have taken over Islamic communities and created ‘a state within a state’, encouraging Muslims ‘not’ to assimilate, spreading lies about the police and the citizens, and using the threat of violence and actual violence to instill fear in the locals to get what they want. Rather than assimilate, Islamists are making the locals assimilate to them, tolerating the Islamists intolerance.......and that is where we are headed.

What part of this cannot people understand?....

[Jane Long]

We’ve all seen what’s happened to UK/Europe over the past decade....and we now see the same push, by the same leftist groups, taking place, here.

Wake up, folks!