In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, host Jake Tapper confronted Dem. Rep. Ilhan Omar about her comments equating the US and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban and asked her if she regretted her comments.
Omar replied: “I don’t. I think it’s really important to think back to the point that I was trying to make. Obviously, I was addressing Secretary of State Blinken.”
Why is Ilhan Omar still on the Foreign Affairs Committee?
Why is she on any committee? https://t.co/1nZHOKRtz9
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) June 30, 2021
Although Omar’s response to Tapper’s question failed to actually answer the question, he tried again, this time mentioning some of her anti-Israel and anti-Semitic comments in the past, asking: “Do you understand why some of your fellow House Democrats, especially Jews, find that language anti-Semitic?
Omar totally ignored the question and instead said she welcomes conversations from her colleagues so they can “learn from her.” She then proceeded to accuse “these members” of not being “partners in justice.”
“I think it’s really important for these members to realize that they haven’t been partners in justice,” she said. “They haven’t been equally engaging in seeking justice around the world.”
Shocking – Ilhan Omar refusing to take ANY accountability for her obscene antisemitism.
Instead she has the audacity to blame Jewish members of Congress.
When will this vile bigot finally be censured and properly reprimanded by her party?
Enough is enough! https://t.co/hsj1v6u4yI
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) June 29, 2021
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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We all know she is vile.
But how can YWN quote her saying “Jews are not partners in justice”?
That is not what she said.
Why hasn’t she been prosecuted for hate crimes? And thrown out of Congress?
This is not anti-israel – it’s anti-semitism! And as such if the Democrats including Biden not taking a firm stance against such blunt racism they are guilty partners in crime.
I don’t understand the headline.
The article here did not quote, as your headline claims, that “‘Jews Aren’t Partners In Justice’”. Rather, she said that the members of Congress, not Jews as a whole, aren’t “seeking justice”.
As you quoted in the article:
““I think it’s really important for these members to realize that they haven’t been partners in justice,” she said. “They haven’t been equally engaging in seeking justice around the world.””
As always, it would be very helpful for Jews to inform the gentiles that Judaism is diametrically opposed to Zionism and that they should not allow their opinion on Zionism to affect their actions towards Jews.
Throw her out
@Hakatan. Read Again. This is the quote of the question asked. “Do you understand why some of your fellow House Democrats, especially Jews, find that language anti-Semitic?”
Some kind soul should rip that diaper from around her ugly head and stuff it down her throat, to silence her forever. Evil, ugly hag. Wife of the Satan.
Sounds like she is referring to the U.S. when she states that “as a country” that helped found and supported the ICC. The fact is that the U.S. voted against the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
The political party that she belongs to now has to decide if pandering to bigotry and racism will get it more votes than expelling a bigot. This should at least make clear which of the major parties is opposed to racism, and which has adopted racism as a core belief.