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Robert Spencer: Ilhan Omar, Leader of the Democratic Party

Mar 13, 2019 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The anti-Semitic Congresswoman has hypnotized the Democrats, if not the world.

Just days ago, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) faced rebuke, albeit indirectly, from her own party in a resolution condemning anti-Semitism that had been developed as a response to her repeated anti-Semitic statements — including the bizarre and paranoid assertion that “Israel has hypnotized the world.” Today, it is clear that if anyone has hypnotized the world, or at least the Democrats, it is Omar herself. She stands victorious as the new master of the Democratic Party.

Omar’s victory is total. The anti-Semitism resolution was turned into a condemnation of “Islamophobia” and “white supremacism,” she remains on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the entire Democratic leadership has made it clear that they don’t dare cross her.

To be sure, the resolution as it was passed contained a condemnation of anti-Semitism, and even of accusations of dual loyalty, in which Omar had indulged when she railed against “the political influence in this country that says it is okay to push for allegiance to a foreign country.” Nancy Pelosi, however, was quick to insist that the resolution wasn’t referring to Omar: “I thought the resolution should be largely issued to anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia, etc., anti-white supremacist, and that it should not mention her name … because it’s not about her.”

All right. So the resolution condemns the practice of “accusing Jews of being more loyal to Israel or to the Jewish community than to the United States,” and states that this “constitutes anti-Semitism because it suggests that Jewish citizens cannot be patriotic Americans and trusted neighbors.” The resolution was conceived only after Omar denounced “the political influence in this country that says it is okay to push for allegiance to a foreign country.” But Pelosi says that the resolution doesn’t refer to Omar.

Indeed, it doesn’t. It was initially drawn up because of her, only her, but her supporters quickly demonstrated their power in the new, avowedly socialist, fanatically anti-Israel Democratic Party. Only then did the resolution get supplemented with references to the Dreyfus Affair (timely!) and to white supremacists demonstrating in Charlottesville (relevant!).

Pelosi later explained that Omar’s words “were not based on any anti-Semitic attitude,” the poor victim just “didn’t have a full appreciation of how they landed on other people where these words have a history and a cultural impact that might have been unknown to her.”

Pelosi sounds as if she has been hypnotized.

And not just her: No one in the Democratic Party leadership has raised the slightest murmur of protest over the fact that Omar remains on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and has essentially suffered no consequences whatsoever for her open expressions of anti-Semitism. The clear lesson of the events of this past week is that the sclerotic Democratic Party establishment lacks the will to tangle with Omar, who is an exponent of a skilled and ruthless propaganda machine that has long been in the Democrats’ corner, but has never — until now — turned its brute force against the Democrats themselves.

What Pelosi and her cohorts learned this week is that if they cross Ilhan Omar, they will be accused of “racism” and “Islamophobia” just as swiftly and reflexively as those smear labels are applied to Republicans who dare to speak honestly about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat. The Democrats’ long record of support for mass Muslim migration into the U.S. and resolutely opposing any realistic analysis of the motivating ideology behind jihad violence counts for nothing if they get in the way.

This became clear when Omar’s staunch ally Linda Sarsour railed against Pelosi after the initial anti-Semitism resolution was announced. Pelosi, said Sarsour, was a “typical white feminist upholding the patriarchy doing the dirty work of powerful white men. God forbid the men are upset — no worries, Nancy to the rescue to stroke their egos.”

That’s the kind of rhetoric that Leftists have been using against conservatives for years. Pelosi must have been shocked beyond measure to find it used against her. And given the fact that for decades Leftists have demanded, and usually received, the capitulation of conservatives in the face of such rhetoric, Pelosi could do nothing else but capitulate herself.

And so Ilhan Omar is the new leader of the Democratic Party, complete with all her anti-Semitism. The next time she says something anti-Semitic, and she certainly will, there will be not the mildest statement of contradiction from Democratic leadership. What can they possibly say? She has already faced them down and won. She has gotten them to accept, however tacitly, that her views are acceptable and within the Democratic Party mainstream. She has achieved the normalization of a paranoid Jew-hatred not seen in the political mainstream since the Third Reich.

President Trump said it best: “The Democrats have become an anti-Israel party. They’ve become an anti-Jewish party.” And Ilhan Omar is their leader.

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  1. Kesselman says

    Mar 13, 2019 at 3:33 pm

    The Democrats, due to cowardly appeasing the aggressive mozzies, have stepped onto the road calling for fierce counter-attacks. That makes matter somehow easier. Know your enemies. The Democrat party is an extreme party. Omar says something about “allegiance to a foreign country.” But Omar herself pays allegiance to a foreign ideology incompatible with the Constitution.
    By the way, the American Jews have paid tribute to society in many ways and in many years. The Moslems have still to prove if they are genuine citizens and not the fifth column.

    • Jayme says

      Mar 13, 2019 at 3:48 pm

      What if Omar calls for all people who are jewish to be rounded up and put in a camp and before people say don’t be silly fact is this is how people like her think.

      • Kay says

        Mar 13, 2019 at 4:05 pm

        More likely BDS will be promoted and value of alliance will be questioned.
        The antisemitism will be full of confusing rhetoric and justifications.

    • Kay says

      Mar 13, 2019 at 3:55 pm

      Yep. And I believe she uttered that attack because she wanted the defense for her own.

    • DP111 says

      Mar 15, 2019 at 8:11 am

      The USS Democrat party has been boarded by Somali and Palestinian terrorists. What a bloody tragedy.

      But this is what happens when you allow Muslims into your home

  2. Prebangian says

    Mar 13, 2019 at 3:57 pm

    That she is anti-Semitic is unacceptable. But she is, to West’s even greater detriment, anti-American, anti-Western Civilization, and anti-Capitalism for starters. Go back and watch her abuse Elliott Abrams during his confirmation hearing. She attacked the US too by strongly and clearly (and falsely) implying that the US directed those El Salvadorian troops to murder “innocent” people. She made no mention of the fact that the US was in El Salvador to stop Soviet hegemony over the West. When asked about her migrating to the US her main comment was that she was shocked by the lack of Social Justice and large degree of poverty. She follows Al Jazerra’s tactic of diminishing the IS at every possible opportunity. She is more dangerous Islamist, she is a propaganda Jihadist. She is colluding with the adversary in Venezuela too. The Republicans should impeach her now.

  3. CogitoErgoSum says

    Mar 13, 2019 at 4:23 pm

    I’m not sure if she is leader of the Democrats just yet. However, I do think she is a puppet being used by a group that is determined to take over the Democratic Party. I ran across this fellow on YouTube discussing this matter as it relates to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and a few other “fresh faces” in Congress are part of the plan … and the plan is one day to get a puppet elected President of the United States. As the man says, I know this sounds crazy but bear with me. See what you think:

    • b.a. freeman says

      Mar 14, 2019 at 9:03 pm

      thanks for that, Cogito. don’t know if it’s true, but i wouldn’t put *ANYTHING* past the left. they’re evil, and are willing to do whatever it takes.

    • DP111 says

      Mar 15, 2019 at 8:15 am

      AOC is controlled by Saikat Chakrabarti, an Indian, who wears an imprint of a raving lunatic, Subhash C Bose, a communist socialist-cum -Japanese racist imperialist sympathiser. The very worst of the potential genocidal thugs of the mid 20th century..

      S Chakrabarty shows, via his T-shirt, that he supports the Axis powers of Hitler, Mussolini and Japanese, ie an evil mixture of communism and Fascism. This is what ignorant AOC unknowingly represents.

      Fortunately Subhash C Bose never got the chance to be like Stalin and Mao or the Japs. The USA/UK put a stop to the thug , without even knowing it, by destroying the Axis of Hitler and Japan. No wonder these genocidal wannabes hate the USA.

      Yet again we see that immigrants from Asia and the ME, have no love of the USA. Its not surprising, as they cannot have any natural affinity to the US constitution , a Judeao-Christian construct, which they consid

  4. CRUSADER says

    Mar 13, 2019 at 4:30 pm

    Typical of the Dhimmirats of the Left to front for the Islamists.

    Red/Green Axis

    Paint a broad brush to cover many themes in order to advance agenda of control over speech beyond the scope of the rebuke. Be sure to promote in an official capacity the concept of “Islamo-phobia”….

    Meanwhile, any points made by conservatives in America gets slandered by Left as broad brush strokes,
    therefore “unfair” and should be scolded and censored…..

    What a scam!!!

  5. somehistory says

    Mar 13, 2019 at 5:21 pm

    She worked directly for cair in MN. She was on the board there…of cair. cair is the American arm of hamas, formed by nihad a wad and another guy…both working for the group that was formed by the moslim brotherhood to help the moslims in Israel to defeat the Jews and take over, calling themselves ‘palestinians.”

    cair was part of the funding group, “holy land foundation”…that sent money to hamas…a declared terror group. Some of the members of the holy land foundation were found guilty and sent to prison…for funding a terror group…in Texas in a 2008 trial. The infamous ‘o’ stopped any further trials that might have seen a wad and others go to prison and cair demolished.

    omar is not alone…she has all of the members of cair…including a wad…working for her, telling her what to say and she’s giving speeches to help cair get money from other moslims. Does some of that money go to hamas?

    pelosi has now been shown just how much power and authority cair has to tell her what to do…or not to do.
    if she decided to go against her new ‘masters,’ she could most likely quietly have a new investigation begun into the activities of cair and omar. But, does she wish to go against them?

  6. somehistory says

    Mar 13, 2019 at 5:47 pm

    https://www.glennbeck.com/radio/did-rep-ilhan-omar-commit-immigration-fraud?

    Another video by Glenn Beck regarding omar…this on immigration fraud and the charges she used campaign money for personal use…and when asked, claimed she was being attacked for being, “black, immigrant, woman….moslim” …and didn’t answer the question.

    Beck promises more tomorrow.

  7. Carolyne says

    Mar 13, 2019 at 5:47 pm

    Or, “You knew I was a Somalian when you took me in.”

  8. Prebangian says

    Mar 13, 2019 at 6:05 pm

    Having to deal with Islamists personally has put Pelosi in a state of shock. Maybe she’ll be asking for an extension to the travel ban…at least from Somalia.

  9. Raja says

    Mar 13, 2019 at 8:28 pm

    She may or may not be a leader of the Democratic Party, there could be lots at work to project or present her as one. She is having a gala time being in the limelight and the evil elements around her might be having a good time too. I can see the impish smile in the faces of these elements.
    Muslims have used democracy to the hilt as they continue to hijack everything under the sun.
    Hope she is questioned more and more so she can be exposed and shunted to oblivion.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 14, 2019 at 1:05 am

      +1

  10. Robert_k says

    Mar 13, 2019 at 9:33 pm

    Once again don’t cross the “The Hot Somali”!
    Please make this nickname “The Hot Somali” viral. If it’s catchy, let me know. It will put her in her place and will help cut her down to size.

  11. David Grisez says

    Mar 14, 2019 at 12:10 am

    The Democrat Party is becoming very Socialist and also Anti-Semitic. There is something seriously wrong with the Democrat Party when three new women representatives can rise so quickly to so much power and prominence. This includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib. All three of these are Anti-Semitic and two are Muslims, and Ilhan Omar is on the Foreign Relations Committee. It would be good for people in the United States to start deserting the Democrat Party. I am 67 years old and can clearly see that the Democrat Party of today is not the Democrat Party of the nineteen sixties.

  12. gravenimage says

    Mar 14, 2019 at 1:02 am

    Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Ilhan Omar, Leader of the Democratic Party
    ……………..

    Terrifying thought–but what we’ve seen over the past few weeks this does indeed seem to be true. Never thought I would consider someone like Nancy Pelosi a “moderate”, but this now appears to the the case.

  13. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Mar 14, 2019 at 3:37 am

    Ilhan Omar is another “(Social) Justice Democrat” plant, like AOC – she simply answered a casting call audition to play the part of a US Congresswoman. She is a puppet of political operatives who hate and want to destroy the USA by taking over the Democrat party (which, apparently, wasn’t moving quite fast enough in that direction all on its own, to them).

    The constituents of the districts who voted for AOC, Omar and Tlaib have got to be the dumbest, most brainwashed people on Earth!

    • b.a. freeman says

      Mar 14, 2019 at 9:07 pm

      in the case of ms. omar, uncle, i believe she was called out for being anti-semitic, so she made the knee-crawling tour of all the synagogues, and they forgave her and voted her in. i’m wondering if any of those voters are re-thinking their votes …

  14. Alexis says

    Mar 14, 2019 at 5:41 am

    I will never forget when soon after 9/11, George Bush invited those Muslims to the White House to show how Islam was really a religion of peace. That was the beginning of what we are seeing now. That was the first crack in the door of inviting in the vampire.

  15. shortfattexan says

    Mar 14, 2019 at 8:10 am

    Who remembers the 2012 Democratic National Convention?

    In the 2008 official Democratic platform, there was a statement to the effect that “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel.” In 2012 the statement was initially removed, but then the party leaders decided to put the statement back in. But at the convention, when the amendment (adding the Jerusalem statement again) came up for a vote, it was a complete cluster@$#%. LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was at the podium and, expecting no trouble, he presented the amendment for a voice “yea” or “nay” vote, and the amendment was very obviously defeated by a considerable margin. Villaraigosa was obviously shocked and didn’t really know what to do – President Obama himself had ordered the party to put the Jerusalem statement back in, but the votes were very definitely not there. Villaraigosa called for another vote, and then another, with the same results each time – it was quite clear to everyone that the delegates definitely did not want this amendment. After the third vote, in one of the most amazing examples of arrogant elitism I have ever seen, Villaraigosa simply declared that the amendment was accepted, to a resounding chorus of Boos from the delegates. The entire episode was on CSPAN, and the video is still available if you look for it.

    Four years later, the 2016 Democratic platform watered down the statement a little, saying that Jerusalem “should remain the capital of Israel” but that it “is a matter for final status negotiations”.

    What will the 2020 platform say? Who knows, but the smart money says that sooner or later the Democrat platform will explicitly call for the division of Jerusalem. And I think it likely that someday, the official platform of the Democrat party will call for the destruction of the State of Israel.

    • somehistory says

      Mar 14, 2019 at 12:27 pm

      shortfattexan

      “ikely that someday, the official platform of the Democrat party will call for the destruction of the State of Israel.”

      Probably so.
      (Ezekiel 38-39)

    • b.a. freeman says

      Mar 14, 2019 at 9:09 pm

      sad, but true … so many americans who don’t recognized freedom – or evil.

      +1

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 14, 2019 at 9:35 pm

      Yes–the Democratic Party is getting worse. And this is accelerating.

  16. J D.S says

    Mar 14, 2019 at 10:32 am

    Personally I believe Omar is the best thing that has happened since popcorn. for the Republican party any way… At least that’s the way it would have been a few years ago…maybe not so today .We Americans who love America are being used by Muslims…People with Omar’s mindset should never been elected to any position of authority and if her fellow constituents and fellow democrats and others have the same mindset then our founders way of governing is wasted and all that has been done, following their standards these many years are for naught and we might as well climb back up in the trees (if one believes that’s where they come from) and make our government null and void. We need some strength in congress..some like our original founders. Are there any out there?

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 14, 2019 at 9:38 pm

      Yes, but people will not always–and not everywhere–vote Republican. What is happening to the Democratic Party should be recognized as alarming, no matter how staunch a Republican one might be.

  17. george whyte says

    Mar 14, 2019 at 5:05 pm

    CLOSER LOOK: Who is Rep. Ilhan Omar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SeM3rQf0gA

  18. LR says

    Mar 15, 2019 at 4:37 am

    Don’t underestimate the Democratic party, and the kinds of people who want more power…People better get ready for a tough fight if they want to stop creeping socialist/Jew hating/Islamist loving people taking up more and more power in the Dem party.

    Plenty of baby boomers along with Millenials, and GenXers think socialism is great. Cali had Governor Reagan, and Nixon and Schwarzenegger. Look what it has now…Repubs may never have a chance to make much of a dent in Calif. politics again. That’s what the rest of the country has to look forward to, if they don’t get active and talk to people about these things.

    I read, and hear quite frequently how the U.S. is ‘fascist’, or acting like Nazis because of how we are treating people at the border. Or, even just because some people want a border. Invasion of the mind snatchers. They’re here!

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