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Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Hold Anti-Semitic Sentiments
Omar was asked to repent for insisting that Israeli influence in America amounts to a foreign conspiracy, but she was done apologizing. Without any recourse, Omar’s fellow Democrats in the House introduced a resolution condemning the anti-Semitism their colleague regularly evinces. Amid a bitter internal debate, not over the nature of her comments but the political impact of singling out the representative for censure, Democrats scrapped the resolution in favor of a blander, generalized attack on hate in all its various forms.
For all the assurance from her reflexive defenders, the debate around Omar’s comments is not about whether the things she says are anti-Semitic but about the extent to which they merit condemnation. Omar’s comrade-in-arms, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, has a similar problem.
The Michigan congresswoman’s term in the lower chamber of Congress began inauspiciously enough when she said her Republican colleagues who opposed BDS “forgot what country they represent.” The notion that mounting a defense of Israel’s right to exist constitutes a display of dual loyalty is yet another road-worn anti-Semitic slur. But unlike Omar, Tlaib was not amenable to a fuller education on the subject.
Omar was asked to repent for insisting that Israeli influence in America amounts to a foreign conspiracy, but she was done apologizing. Without any recourse, Omar’s fellow Democrats in the House introduced a resolution condemning the anti-Semitism their colleague regularly evinces. Amid a bitter internal debate, not over the nature of her comments but the political impact of singling out the representative for censure, Democrats scrapped the resolution in favor of a blander, generalized attack on hate in all its various forms.
For all the assurance from her reflexive defenders, the debate around Omar’s comments is not about whether the things she says are anti-Semitic but about the extent to which they merit condemnation. Omar’s comrade-in-arms, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, has a similar problem.
The Michigan congresswoman’s term in the lower chamber of Congress began inauspiciously enough when she said her Republican colleagues who opposed BDS “forgot what country they represent.” The notion that mounting a defense of Israel’s right to exist constitutes a display of dual loyalty is yet another road-worn anti-Semitic slur. But unlike Omar, Tlaib was not amenable to a fuller education on the subject.