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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Ilhan Omar’s Non-Apology for Her Anti-Semitism

Feb 13, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

Will she make more anti-Semitic statements? Will the sun rise? My latest in FrontPage:

The anti-Semitism of hijabbed Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has apparently gotten to be too much even for the inveterately anti-Israel Democrat Party leadership. “I unequivocally apologize,” Omar tweeted Monday, after party leaders including Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, James E. Clyburn and others publicly castigated her: “Congresswoman Omar’s use of anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel’s supporters is deeply offensive. We condemn these remarks and we call upon Congresswoman Omar to immediately apologize for these hurtful comments.”

However, Omar’s apology was more of an admission that she had gotten caught than a sign of a genuine change of heart.

Omar wrote:

Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes. My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole. We have to always be willing to step back and think through criticism, just as I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity. This is why I unequivocally apologize.

At the same time, I reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC, the NRA or the fossil fuel industry. It’s gone on too long and we must be willing to address it.

Omar’s second paragraph nullified her apology. She had claimed that AIPAC was paying American politicians to be pro-Israel; she made it clear in her apology that she still believes that. All her widely criticized anti-Semitic tweets, meanwhile, are still on her Twitter feed.

It all started when far-Left hate propagandist Glenn Greenwald tweeted: “GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy threatens punishment for @IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib over their criticisms of Israel.” To that, Omar responded: “It’s all about the Benjamins baby.” The Forward’s Opinion editor, Batya Ungar-Sargon, then tweeted: “Would love to know who @IlhanMN thinks is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel, though I think I can guess.” Omar answered: “AIPAC!” And clearly she still believes it.

It isn’t hard to see how Ilhan Omar’s Congressional career will unfold: she will continue to repeat anti-Semitic tropes; she will blame jihad massacres on the US, Israel, and the victims; and she will continue to claim victim status when called out for her hatred. Omar is a far Leftist and a devout, Sharia-adherent Muslim; neither group is distinguished for mavericks or original thinkers. In fact, both are marked by an ideological lockstep that brooks no dissent, disagreement, or fair consideration of opposing ideas. That makes Omar’s future drearily predictable.

And so when considering the sincerity of Omar’s apology, it should be borne in mind that she wouldn’t be where she is today, in the House of Representatives, if her views were not widely shared among the very Democrat leadership that rebuked her Monday.

For it isn’t as if Omar’s anti-Semitic tweets from this week were something new. Before she was elected to Congress, she had denounced what she called “the apartheid Israeli regime,” and claimed that it Israel had “hypnotized the world” to ignore its “evil doings.” Nancy Pelosi either knew this or was criminally negligent when she named Omar to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

The Democrat Party during the Obama years hardened its stance against Israel. Omar was only able to rise in its ranks and gain a plum assignment as a first-term Representative not in spite of her anti-Semitism, but because of it. A January 2018 Pew Research Center poll found that only 27 percent of Democrats sympathized more with the Israelis than with the Palestinians.

This is extraordinary in light of the fact that both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas routinely incite hatred of and violence against Israel in their official media organs. They teach children that it is a good and noble thing to want to grow up and kill Jews. The Democrats have for years ignored this genocidal incitement, and approved of and even participated in the demonization of Israel in the international media and at the United Nations.

And so now the Democrats are appalled at their Muslim Representative’s Jew-hatred, and she is contrite? Do they really expect anyone to fall for this charade? It is noteworthy that while the cowardly Republican House leadership stripped Rep. Steve King (R-IA) of his committee assignments for a misquote, Omar has not been removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee. Nor will she be removed. She is exactly where the Democrat leadership wants her to be.

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  1. James Gramling says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 9:16 am

    This is the same Somali woman that married her brother in order to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, then she was planted among the large Somali population in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District (Minneapolis) in order to replace Hakim Muhammad (Keith Ellison), former U.S. Representative, DNC Chairman, wife-beater, Muslim, taking his place in the U.S. Congress while he takes over Minnesota as the Attorney General. The only thing she is being chastised for by Democratic leadership is that she’s letting the cat out of the bag too soon.

    • christianblood says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 9:35 am

      James Gramling

      +1

  2. Terry Gain says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 9:21 am

    The election of Omar and her resultant ignorant and hateful mouthing off is a blessing as it gives America a much needed glimpse into real Islam.

  3. Jay says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 9:26 am

    This Omar woman is as anti-American as any person can be! Why was she allowed to be sworn in on the Koran.? She has no loyalty to the US constitution. And neither does vulgar Tlaib from Michigan, who
    Is under investigation for falsifying her election documents and there is a petition to have her recalled.
    It’s hard to comprehend how either of these two were ever elected! They need to be curtailed ! Along with complete nut case Cortez, these three women are like the three stooges of congress!!! Where is the outrage? Can you image what would happen if they were republicans? Such a double standard!
    May a god bless and Save America !🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸

    • Christopher Kelley says

      Feb 16, 2019 at 11:30 am

      Maybe the three witches in MacBeth???

  4. Jay says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 9:30 am

    Correction : “May God bless and save America”.

  5. christianblood says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 9:34 am

    Don’t be surprised when, sooner or later, this Somali Islamist (Ilhan Omar) wears an explosive belt and blows her self up in the US congress! She is indeed a ticking time bomb!

    For more about the love that Somali Islamists have for the infidels watch the video below:

    https://somalisforjesus.blogspot.com/2009/01/mansur-mohamed-sfj-martyr-of-year-2009.html

    • dan christensen says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 10:35 am

      We recommend that she reality tests the actual device in her own backyard first. Many muslim jihadists do this with a very satisfactory result.

      • christianblood says

        Feb 13, 2019 at 11:34 am

        dan christensen

        Her natural surrounding is the huge Somali Islamist community in Minnesota
        and one of the radical imams there can easily persuade her to done the belt
        and be a martyr for the sake of allah and his ‘oppressed’ uma!

        • dan christensen says

          Feb 13, 2019 at 2:06 pm

          Ok – but then the democrats might get the clever idea to put up a sign at the entrance to the House of Representatives saying : “Beware – no bomb belts allowed”.
          That should do the trick:-)

        • christianblood says

          Feb 13, 2019 at 2:44 pm

          dan christensen

          A halal bacon stand at the entrance would be a better idea!

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 13, 2019 at 10:00 pm

          The real danger Ilhan Omar presents is in stealth Jihad. She won’t be blowing herself up–a Muslim elected official blowing herself up would obviously make Islam look bad. It would be difficult to get a suicide vest past security, in any case.

  6. Or Else! says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 9:41 am

    The progressive Left sees a brown woman in a hijab and thinks, “Only racists would criticize an oppressed Muslim woman who finally has some power in white America.” Always with the identity politics against the “straight, Christian, white patriarchy.”

    “X”!! Wrong. Try again. Better luck next time.

    The problem is the IDEOLOGY running on the brain, no matter the visible package. In Islam’s case, the ideology came roaring out of the Arabian peninsula in the 7th century: “We’re perfect. We’re supreme. We can do WHATEVER we want to the infidel–pillage, desecrate, enslave, rape, murder, convert–AND be rewarded by Allah with eternal, hedonistic pleasures.”

    Considering both the prophet and the canonical texts are deemed “perfect” and “unalterable”, little has changed in 1400 years. As long as that version of megalomaniacal, supremacist, barbarous software exists, it will continue to be downloaded.

  7. Emilie Green says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 9:58 am

    I’m hopeful that she’s one of these types who just can’t help themselves, continuing to reveal, reveal, reveal the major tenets of Islam.

    America will eventually learn all about Islam. The outstanding question is this: Will that happen after the Muslims have made sufficient inroads into American culture and institutions to cause irreversible rot, or before that.

    • Or Else! says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 10:24 am

      History has demonstrated that an unfettered Islam will lead to a Balkanization of North America–with Islam having its own districts and shari’ah rule. Islam will fight amongst itself as to who the “real Muslims” are….and the “infidels” will be engaged in a ongoing survival response to its overall aggression.

      Same as it ever was….

    • christianblood says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 11:37 am

      Emilie Green posted

      (…America will eventually learn all about Islam…)

      If America didn’t learn about Islam on 9/11 with the blood of 3000 of its citizens dead on a single day, it will never learn it!

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 13, 2019 at 10:38 pm

        christianblood has said many times that he can’t wait for Islam to conquer the West.

  8. dan christensen says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 10:30 am

    The woman apologizes with her forked tongue in her cheek.

  9. Jayme says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 10:40 am

    In Ontario we have a even called Al-Quds Day rally its the biggest anti Israel event in Canada and all sides have tried to have it shut down with out any success.

    Point is no matter where is anti Israel events seems to be the in thing and not subject to the laws of the land or in Canada case the charter.

  10. Or Else! says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 11:20 am

    Islam has no “claim” to any part of the world other than the claim that it stormed, raided, murdered, raped, enslaved, desecrated every “infidel” village, town, city it conquered since blasting out of the Arabian peninsula in the 7th century. Its own historians boasted of such abhorrence.

    There have been many warring, brutal tribes/factions throughout our history…but….Islam is still going for it.

  11. elee says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 12:10 pm

    I have emailed my Congressman and urged him to initiate proceedings to withdraw her Congressional credentials and vacate her seat. I urge all readers to do the same. Time to stand for a principle: anti-Semitism has no place in our federal legislature.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 11:00 pm

      +1

  12. Max says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 8:35 pm

    Under pressure from some in her own party that don’t want to lose every single Jew vote, Omar says “I unequivocally apologize,” Be assured, however, that it will not take long for this Jew-hater, anti-American Iranian Muslim woman to reiterate her vile words.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 8:48 pm

      One point–Ilhan Omar is not Iranian–she is Somalian.

  13. gravenimage says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 9:40 pm

    Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Ilhan Omar’s Non-Apology for Her Anti-Semitism
    ……………….

    An egregiously fake apology.

  14. Ronyvo says

    Feb 14, 2019 at 6:39 am

    I do NOT accept her apology. I know better. She is a huge layer and deceiver (takyya). Well, she is Muslim, that should say it all.
    Hec, I do NOT accept her to represent ANY American. Actually, I do not accept her to be in our country.

  15. Ronyvo says

    Feb 14, 2019 at 6:47 am

    (…equivocally OR unequivocally coming from a Muslim mouth is the same. EMPTY. When the people will understand and recognize the fakeness and danger of this horrible system ISLAM?!!! Wake up America.

  16. Tony46 says

    Feb 14, 2019 at 10:23 am

    Ok crooked headbag,….since you are there with your twisted questioning to Mr. Abrams:
    In October 1993 when a lot of American Soldiers were slain in Mogadishu and then torched and dragged thru the streets of the city,….were you also chanting, celebrating, clapping and laughing like the rest of all Somalis??
    Answer. Yes or no.

  17. A David Darman says

    Feb 15, 2019 at 8:37 am

    I think it is an error to conflate “leftism” with pro-Islam mentality. Bad strategy RS.

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