Posted on 03/26/2019 10:41:00 AM PDT by BadLands59
Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, rebuked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday for condemning a Palestinian-led movement that Omar supports at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference.
Without mentioning Omar by name, or her fellow freshman Democratic colleague Rashida Tlaib, Pelosi condemned the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement—which Omar and Tlaib both support. The movement seeks to exert international pressure on Israel over disputed territories, including the West Bank, and ongoing conflicts with Palestine.
“Israel and America are connected now and forever,” Pelosi said at the pro-Israel event. “We will never allow anyone to make Israel a wedge issue.”
The speaker condemned the “anti-Semitic myth of dual loyalty,” classifying the BDS movement as “bigotry masquerading as policy.”
Omar pushed back on that categorization of BDS, telling Newsweek she views Pelosi’s comments as anti–First Amendment and “beneath any leader.”
"A condemnation for people who want to exercise their First Amendment rights is beneath any leader,” Omar said. “I hope that we find a better use of language when we are trying to speak as members of Congress that are sworn to protect the Constitution."
Omar declined to comment on whether she believed Pelosi's words were directed at herself and Tlaib.
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More great advertising for the Dems outside of deep blue areas I presume?
If Pelosi loses patience with Omar would a censure vote be considered?
too funny...
The perpetual islamization of the democrats....
“The road once taken....”
Look both ways before crossing K St. Miss Omar. Keep putting the democrat wet dream of a return to the White House in 2020 in jeopardy and you’ll have more problems than just being criticized by Nancy Pelosi.
I thought we were just told how she didn't understand the language because of where she grew up.
-PJ
Zero shekels for you from Nancy or any other PAC
Errrrrrrrrrrr, neither do I!
I thought Pelousy was enough to get R’s elected next time....
but this Omar little Hitler lady... is enough, so damned evil...Satanic...enough, plenty to get R’s elected for Decades!
What a sickening spectacle, and to see Pelousy protecting her? DISGUSTING!
better check this chick for weapons whenever she’s near trump.
She’s a mooslimb, so Pelosi is just another infidel to her...............
Now I’ve heard everything. Omar citing the Constitution?That woman hasn’t the slightest idea what it means. They twist the contents to a ‘charter of negative liberties’ in violation of the constraints it imposes on them.
Did she place her hand on a Bible when sworn in?
we have too many ‘refugee childs’ who couldn’t give a crap about America or it’s citizens that welcomed them to begin with. They’d rather pretend they are back home, pandering to an audience of another country for self-aggrandizement.
Turning America into an international welfare hotel where the attraction is free stuff and minority privilege instead of furthering the ideals of sovereign nation.
Let’s hope that Nazi’s daughter was right about Nazi cutting your throat and you won’t even know that you’re bleeding.
Good question. Omar is edging ever closer to being overtly disrespectful of Pelosi. No leader can permit this kind of challenge to go passively unanswered.
There is a power struggle going on inside the Democrat Party right now and fracture lines are becoming more evident by the day.
Pelosi had better not let this Muslim fester, she is doing what she was elected to do and that is create friction in an already Politically Correct timid society. She screams for Islam in many ways and is getting away with it. Here is the truth:
HAVE WE FORGOTTEN? AREN'T MUSLIMS BEHIND ALL MOST EVERY ACT OF TERRORISM? THE ANSWER IS YES!
Omar is creating discord in Congress and tweaking the Oval Office as well as the MSM including Fox News....she has allies whom she uses also...NEVER elect a Muslim to serve in a country that lives for freedom and liberty and religion of their choice. Omar has none of these, they don't exist in the Quran, her book of faith....she is on a mission.
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