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Omar, is the first anti-Semitic Somali-American Muslim woman elected to Congress. She responded to a post by journalist Glenn Greenwald criticizing House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, (R-CA), for threatening to take action against Omar and another freshman lawmaker, Rashida Tlaib, (D-MI), over anti-Semitic remarks.
"There’s situations in our conference where a member does something that is wrong — I think you’ve seen from my own actions that I take action about it," McCarthy told reporters Friday, making an apparent reference to Republican congressman Steve King of Iowa. "I think when they stay silent, they are just as guilty ... I think this will not be the end of this, and if they do not take action then I think you will see action from myself. It’s unacceptable in this country, especially when you sit back and think about and listen to what this country went through in World War II."
Greenwald accused McCarthy of targeting Omar and Tlaib for their numerous criticisms of Israel, to which Omar chimed in "It's all about the Benjamins, baby," quoting a 1997 rap song by Puff Daddy. [The lyrics to It's all about the Benjamins is simply lovely in a vulgar sort of disgusting way.]
She then doubled down when challenged by Batya Ungar-Sargon, the opinion editor of The Forward newspaper.
"Would love to know who @IlhanMN thinks is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel, though I think I can guess," Ungar-Sargon tweeted. "Bad form, Congresswoman. That's the second anti-Semitic trope you've tweeted."
In response, Omar tweeted "AIPAC!" referring to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which regularly has been accused by progressives of agitating for a conflict with Iran. AIPAC did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Fox News.
Omar's comments drew a strong response from across the political spectrum. The Republican Jewish Coalition called on House Speaker Nancy "Hands-A-Blazing" Pelosi, (D-CA) to take action and was asked rhetorically if House Democrats would "care to comment on the outrageous anti-Semitism being spewed by one of your fêted members?"
"[House Majority] Leader [Steny] Hoyer [D-MD] - you've led many AIPAC trips to Israel," RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks tweeted. "Will you speak out against this??"
Chelsea Clinton tweeted: "We should expect all elected officials, regardless of party, and all public figures to not traffic in anti-Semitism."
Fat chance that Democrats will speak out against the fresh, new faces of Congress. That would be like saying Alexandria Obviosa-Communista's Green New Deal is akin to the work of a special needs child.
Left-wing historian and Politico Magazine contributing editor Joshua Zeitz, even he tweeted: "I'm one of those American Jews who opposes the occupation [of the West Bank and Gaza Strip], laments Israel's anti-democratic drift, and doesn't regard the country as especially central to my Jewish identity. And I knew exactly what the congresswoman meant. She might as well call us hook-nosed."
By the way, Zeitz's Jewish identity has more to do with knishes than synagogues.
Sunday marked the latest in a long line of statements by Omar that critics have slammed as anti-Semitic. In 2012, she tweeted that "Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. #Gaza #Palestine#Israel.” She did not apologize for posting the tweet until last month.
In January, Omar said in a Yahoo! News interview that Israel could not be considered a democracy and compared it to the Islamic theocracy in Iran, which is totally ridiculous and clearly anti-Semitic, because you cannot be anti-Zionist without being anti-Semitic, and everyone knows that. Israel is a democratically run country and Muslims, like Omar, would have more rights there than they would in any surrounding Muslim country.
"When I see Israel institute laws that recognize it as a Jewish state and does not recognize the other religions that are living in it, and we still uphold it as a democracy in the Middle East I almost chuckle because I know that if we see that any other society we would criticize it, call it out," she said. "We do that to Iran, we do that to any other place that sort of upholds its religion. And I see that now happening with Saudi Arabia and so I am aggravated, truly, in those contradictions."
This is just as ridiculous.
Israel not only recognizes other religions and protects their sacred mosques and churches, they have Muslims elected to their government. Can you say this about their neighbors? Not a single synagogue or even a Jew can live in an Islamic country without fearing for his or her life. And Christians don't have it much better.
Omar is merely following the precepts of Islam and Mohammed, and is religiously hating Jews for being Jewish.
And she is in the U.S. Congress!
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