It should go without saying that these two things can simultaneously be true: that criticism of the Israeli government and AIPAC’s lobbying for U.S. support of it is not anti-Semitism, and that Representative Ilhan Omar’s recent tweet about “the Benjamins” was a mark of poor judgement, for which she has commendably apologized. It’s all about…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jewish House Democrats repudiated party colleague Ilhan Omar of Minnesota after she said AIPAC buys the pro-Israel support of lawmakers. A letter being circulated Monday in the U.S. House of Representatives among Jewish Democrats urged the party leadership there to have the caucus call on every Democrat to speak out against anti-Semitism….
Freshman Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has once again been accused of anti-Semitism and castigated by members of her own party, this time after she suggested on Sunday that politicians only support Israel because of financial contributions from pro-Israel groups. It’s all about the Benjamins baby ? https://t.co/KatcXJnZLV — Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) February 10,…
Who knew that he whose name must not be spoken was Benjamin? Apparently not Representative Ilhan Omar, the brave Muslim congresswoman from Minnesota who stated an inconvenient truth when she wrote, “It’s all about the Benjamins baby” over reports she was to be “punished” for her criticisms of Israel that include support of BDS. It’s…
On Sunday night, freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar tweeted something anti-Semitic. Again. This one came just weeks after she finally apologized for her first. In 2012, Omar tweeted that “Israel has hypnotized the world,” a message that played on the anti-Semitic trope of Jews having supernatural power which they use to control the world. Last night,…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Days after a series of apologies for an old tweet seen as echoing anti-Semitic themes, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said AIPAC paid politicians to be pro-Israel, a falsehood that drew immediate rebukes. Omar on Sunday responded on Twitter to a threat two days earlier by Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to take action…
On Friday, Congressman Lee Zeldin took to Twitter to release a reprehensible, vile, and hateful anti-Semitic voicemail he received from someone who targeted him for his Jewishness. This new VM just came into my office. @IlhanMN, this is just another day in my world as an American Jew in Congress. Would love to know what…
It’s not quite the 1856 Brooks–Sumner Affair, when a pro-slavery congressman nearly beat to death an abolitionist senator with a cane. But Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Lee Zeldin of New York have not been afraid the past two weeks to have a war of words. Omar, a Democrat who this year became the…
