Posted on 03/04/2019 11:43:54 AM PST by jazusamo
Full title: With Omar Refusing To Apologize For Anti-Semitic Remarks, House Dems Could Be Voting On Resolution Rebuking Her
She’s not budging. No sir, she’s not going to apologize for her remarks that some have rightfully taken to be viciously anti-Semitic. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) once again got slapped with this accusation, which isn’t her first time, over her remarks where she accused pro-Israel lawmakers of having an allegiance to a foreign country. Yeah, we’re rehashing the dual loyalty smear, which for now, doesn’t look like she’s going to retract. It’s caused heartburn for House Democratic leaders, whose Jewish members are reportedly unnerved by Omar and her colleague Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) viciously anti-Israel stances. Tlaib and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) are just two names that have come to her defense. That’s all you need to know, folks. Both Omar and Tlaib support the anti-Israel and accused anti-Semitic Boycotts, Disinvestment, and Sanctions movement. AOC is just nuts. Now, Democrats are saying they will be forced to drop a resolution condemning Omar for her bigoted views on Wednesday (via Politico ):
NEW: House set to vote this week on resolution condemning anti-Semitism after latest @Ilhan comments. TBD whether it rebukes Omar directly. https://wapo.st/2IU2b7Z
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats are confronting a new controversy involving freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has defied her colleagues’ calls to apologize for recent comments viewed as anti-Semitic.
Public scrutiny over the Minnesota Democrat intensified over the weekend as two of the House’s most senior Democrats condemned Omar’s remarks accusing pro-Israel advocates of “allegiance to a foreign country.” And the problem threatens to get worse for Democratic leaders, with Omar refusing other lawmakers' pleas to retract her statements.
House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey on Sunday called out Omar’s use of “offensive, painful stereotypes” — leading to an awkward Twitter clash as Omar dug in on her comments and was cheered by some on the left.
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Members of the Democratic caucus spent the weekend privately debating how to handle the freshman’s latest controversy involving accusations of anti-Semitism. Just three weeks earlier, Pelosi and her top lieutenants issued a rare public rebuke of Omar’s previous remarks that suggested pro-Israel groups were using their financial heft to shape U.S.-Middle East policy.
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Nearly a dozen pro-Israel groups also urged Pelosi to oust Omar from her coveted spot on the House Foreign Relations Committee.
The chairman of that committee, Rep. Eliot Engel, who is Jewish, called out Omar for a “vile anti-Semitic slur” over the weekend, but did not call for her to be removed from the committee.
But Omar has received support from prominent progressive figures, including fellow freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Minn.) — the first Palestinian-American congresswoman, who has also strongly argued that U.S. policy toward Israel should be overhauled. Another popular progressive, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), has also come to Omar's defense.
In response to Lowey’s criticism, Tlaib defended Omar and said she had been “targeted just like many civil rights icons before us who spoke out about oppressive policies.”
Oh please, her remarks, and the one about AIPAC, and the one about how Israel has hypnotized the world, were all anti-Semitic trash. Martin Luther King, Jr. fought for a fierier America for peoples of all skin colors and equality. These anti-Israel clowns want death and destruction for those following the Jewish faith. These two struggles are not the same, especially since the latter is interwoven with the issue of international terrorism. MLK and Hamas. Yeah, there’s no equivalence. Condemn Omar. Remove her from her committee post because she’s already turned that into a clown show with her unhinged line of questioning against Special Envoy to Venezuela Elliott Abrams. Dare I say, House Democrats are actually doing a decent job policing their own…for now. This could all change in a few days. But for now, rebuke Omar and her bigoted views.
Elect a democrat president and bring in millions more like her.
Please don’t think she only wants to kill Jews. She has a long list of victims.
Agreed...Christians and Americans among others.
We'd better start using correct descriptive words and phrases now because we WILL be called upon later to respond to a muzzie attack.
And every American vote brought it on !
The representative of al-Shabab from MN is only loyal to Allah and sharia.
Islam allows her to lie to us as needed to advance Islam.
The Democrats will do nothing about her, except maybe to elect more like her.
No.
No.
Really.
She wants to be an American.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Nothing is going to happen, this is just being done for show, to show Jews “Hey see we love you all, dont abandon us” its Kabuki theater(As Michelle Malkin would say) all for show..the commie left agrees with Omar, they despise Israel and they hate Jews, BIG SHOCK that a Muslim Jihadist would hate Israel, color me shocked..NOT
The only people in this country more dangerous to our Republic than the Democrats are the Muslims.
Elect a democrat president and bring in millions more like her.
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The Bush Presidents both brought in their fair share.
Thank YOU Minnesota for electing this Moron!
Let’s wrap this Freepathon up, Folks!
Just over 17 years ago we watched the towers fall, the pentagon attacked and real Americans die. Just seven short years after 9/11/01 citizens of this country elected an unvetted manchurian candidate that is most likely muslim and gay.
The symptom is the people elected. The problem is the idiots who elect them.
“Nearly a dozen pro-Israel groups also urged Pelosi to oust Omar from her coveted spot on the House Foreign Relations Committee.”
I hope that my fellow Jews in NY, Chicago, LA & Miami have finally figured out that the Dems are no friends of the Jews, and that all of the middle-aged and older Dems of whatever religion (or none) who have not figured out that the Dem Party of their youth is long since extinct, having been replaced by a radical, anti-America party that is just using them. Maybe Lenin’s phrase “useful idiots” might ring a bell with these drones?
Hey Dems, this POS is ALL yours baby, all yours.
She goes well along with all the other unAmerican Clowns in your party.
Every legitimate American voter who voted for this piece of crap is a traitor.
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True. Absolutely right.
Every time I say that here, 2 or 3 say “no, Frank, there was vote fraud, illegals and vote harvesting to get those majorities for the Dems in the House.”
True. But how many dimwit traitors voted to cut our throats and their own by voting Dem? A lot.
2021 they will say “What!!?? No hamburgers or steaks allowed any more, cars will soon be illegal, I can’t use my home air conditioner and the airlines have about 2 flights a week during the phaseout so I have to take 3 days to take trains each way to places? How did that all happen?”
I sincerely hope this Muslim freak is checked for “hardware” and pressure cookers before she is permitted to enter the Capitol building. I dont trust this freak any farther than I could throw her....and no matter how far I throw her, it isnt far enough!
What does Coonman think of this?
I hate her guts but I don’t think the US should be fighting the wars that belong to other countries, something that AIPAC often seems to like.
But hey, if Israel wants to blow Iran away, I’ll serve as the whole trumpet section.
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