Ilhan Omar has shown herself to be deeply anti-Semitic and has spoken for the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations. In a sane political and media culture, she would be shunned by the Democrat leadership and harshly criticized in the media. Instead, she is lauded and celebrated, as by Newsweek here. Why? Apparently their objective is to normalize and mainstream her anti-Semitism, which is already the dominant view among Leftists.
“Rep. Omar Featured on Newsweek Cover: ‘Changing the Conversation on Israel,’” by Aaron Bandler, Jewish Journal, April 9, 2019 (thanks to the Geller Report):
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is being featured on the cover of Newsweek’s April 19 issue, with the story talking about how she is “changing the conversation about Israel.”
The Newsweek story, which was published online on April 9, states that Omar was frequently targeted by Republicans in speeches during the AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs) conference in March for “using language easily regarded as anti-Semitic.” The article refers to AIPAC has having a “formidable political operation” that has promulgated “a decidedly unequal view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
The article goes on to describe Omar “as the most voluble—and visible—of Israel’s critics.”
“She appears to embrace the role of a political provocateur, particularly when it comes to foreign policy,” the article states. “Omar articulates a view that is rarely heard from a sitting member of Congress, one that has been forged from her first-hand experiences of war and exile.”
Among those coming to Omar’s defense in the piece are Nihad Awad, the executive director of Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), stating that Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) are “not trying to fit into the historical Washington mindset, which has been unjustly pro-Israel for decades. And they represent a whole new generation of progressive activists nationwide.”
Some Democrats are concerned about Omar, as the Newsweek article notes that the Democratic Majority for Israel was recently formed by veteran Democrats to support pro-Israel Democrats in response to concerns “that the influence of Omar and other progressives will erode support for Israel within the Democratic Party.”
The Newsweek article touts “Omar and her progressive supporters” as “the first credible challenge to” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies and the “occupation of the West Bank.”
“Their successful effort to produce a resolution that condemns all forms of bigotry, instead of only Omar and anti-Semitism, was no small accomplishment, given the strength of Israel’s supporters among Democrats,” the article states, referencing the March resolution condemning various forms of bigotry….
O A Kalu says
THIS IS THE LAST TIME I WILL READ NEWSWEEK.
Lydia Church says
Me too!
But no surprise, they are all propaganda machines for we know what!
And the order of the day?
Mainstreaming and whitewashing antisemitism!
The only cases were they tolerate ‘intolerance’ and bigotry is ‘okay’ is when it is
against Christians, Israel/Jews, conservatives, and now even just plain whites!
Rufolino says
This woman is shameless.
smoris says
We should all be ashamed. Our country is fast twirling down the proverbial drain and we are more concerned with making an ingrate intruder like Moar happy at the expense of our own values and our own conscience. We are becoming Nazis and the Nazi leaders are the Muslims we elevate to positions of authority and honor in our country. America is dying of the same pointless self-hate that has consumed Europe. And Muslims are having a field day with us.
Mort Friedland says
JEWS IN THE NEWS: Pro or Con, Jews in the News sells TV time, radio time, newspapers and takes up a lot of space on the internet!
Robert Powers says
What is “Newsweek”….never heard of it or seen it! (;-)
Jay says
Apparently Newsweek doesn’t care about its conservative readers!! What a shameful article!
They forgot to mention she’s under investigation for campaign fund fraud and illegal citizenship!!
Hopefully the law will be her demise and soon. She is the enemy within.
God save America from this liberal madness!!
Trump 2020. Our only hope 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Spiro says
I didn’t think Newsweek had conservative readers
Indiana Tom says
I didn’t think Newspeak had readers.
gravenimage says
🙂
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not Jewish.
gravenimage says
Spot on.
carpediadem says
Sick of this being trotted out all the time, it’s got very trite and means nothing any more.
David Longfellow says
Same old conversation: Muslims hating Jews. Hatred now fully authorized by the Democratic party.
Hari Singh says
What is the source of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) politics, even her lifestyle?It’s the Koran. Mass Muhammadin immigration to Europe has revived antisemitism there and is on track to do so here as well. Jewish people should be worried.
The Koran if paraphrased and posted on the internet would be considered hate speech. The results of Koranic influence killed 250 million non-Muslims.in the past few years tens of thousands of non-believers have been killed in Asia and Africa by Muslims. Christians should be worried. Like Europe your churches, priests and street preaching will be attacked.
Infidels viewing the present and historical actions of Islam should be anxious about Islamic immigration here. Hindus, Sikhs,and Buddhists should be worried.
They will provide the critical mass that will create the ocean their jihadis immigration plan will succeed in.
Increase in Muslim population means chaos. Look at what 3% are now doing to disrupt the West.
If you want peace for your grandchildren stop them from coming, give all Middle Eastern immigration slots to beleaguered Christians.
Kay says
See how the dancing donkeys are already working against that with the so called “no ban” act?
cathykaech says
Never, Never will they put the classiest woman in the country on the cover..Our First Lady…
Spiro says
You got that right
Moshe says
I write from the perspective of a university administrator who is woke to social justice.
When advocates for under-privileged and indigenous peoples–including such gifted and insightful Democratic leaders as Beto and Sen. Elizabeth Warren–describe Israel PM Natenyahu as a racist, it behooves us to listen carefully. Their support for Congresswoman Omar is an outstanding moral issue in today’s complex and contentious society.
President Obama urged us to seek a nuanced perspective as the long arc of history bends toward justice, even in the midst of workplace violence and man-made disasters.
mgoldberg says
You are indeed ‘woke’, but to what I would question. There is the enormity that is ‘justice’ but social justice is a scam that far more involved with being unjust that anything else. I find it farsical that you refer to such as Beto or Eliz Warren as gifted…. You mean grifted, don’t you? Two people who have lied again and again about fundamental issues that call their characters more than into question. Seriously. You socialist utopians
like to spout grandiose ideas and then deliver bottom fed cark that wouldn’t pass the smell test of any reasonable human being. Oh… and ‘workplace violence’ that you referenced via Obama? That was when a muslim Jihadist, a psychiatrist afflicted with muslim Jihadism homcided 16 people and injured some 36 or so at Fort Hood. Seriously. You are a low life. You are a mere slaver of ‘indigents’ and under privileged’.
brane pilot says
To hear that a blonde, blue eyed racist politician who gamed affirmative action law for decades to jump line in front of minorities the law was intended to help, described as ‘gifted and insightful Democratic leadership’ from a ‘woke university administrator’, is at the core of this nation’s social collapse.
Such blithering idiocy cannot be debated or even engaged.
elee says
Thank you for your summons to reason together. This website carries on the Occidental tradition of weighing ideas in free and unrestricted discourse. It has served us and the rest of humanity well since the time of the PreSocratics in Ionia. We’re kind of attached to it and its fruits.
In the 1970’s we began hearing of some new fringe groups in the prisons and the criminal culture. “Identity Christians,” anti-Semitic neo-Nazi groups, criminals with swastika tattoos. Not a good thing in a globally interdependent society with infinitely complex causes and effects—-economic, political, psychic.
Now I read about this woman as an example of “identity politics,” which is the rage in leftist circles The idea is constant—-championing the claims of ethnic, sexual, religious, political subsets as against the claims of (other subsets and/or) the common weal, just as the Aryan white identity groups had done. Now, though, it’s considered trendy and progressive.
This is the electoral equivalent of the politics of Attila the Hun: never mind merging with civilisation and its specialisations and its innovations, let’s pillage it with the sword instead, dispossess and kill legionnaire and dependent and artisan alike, and tomorrow find someone else to pillage. Or maybe starve or get pillaged and killed, who knows?
This was the opposite of the politics of the civil rights movement in which a generation of young idealists risked and sometimes lost a lot. That movement affirmed the rights of all persons to be recognised as individuals. It affirmed that we all do better in a just and interdependent society in which all members acknowledge the humanity and merit of others, without artificial divisions or exclusions.
Since this divisive “identity” dyspolity has become the fashion we have substituted the Internet’s justly renowned lack of civility for deliberating together. When it becomes progressive and virtuous to substitute “othering” for reasoning, our discourse becomes post-factual. Instead of examining facts, we all yell louder for our own “alternative facts.” It appears that a major political party is in the process of being captured by this “identity” culture. Out of this Pandora’s box fly the demons of division, dissension, antagonism, scapegoating, looting, redistribution, entitlement and trash talk. Fashionable anti-Semitism is just one of its tainted fruits.
Islam, past and present, plays to exactly this dyspolity. From its inception it has proclaimed the “right” of its adherents to pillage, kill, rape and enslave “others.” I invite you to study this history, from the Arabian Peninsula to the Barbary Corsairs to the Ottoman Caliphate to ISIS. This is not to deny that individual Muslims have been and are men and women of decency and compassion, any more than one can plausibly deny that there have been and are kafir sons-of-bitches in the world. The differences between—-and preferability of—–different cultures cannot be measured by individual biographies; one must look to the chartering documents of the rival cultures. You may note the frequency with which the organic scriptures of Islam get cited and quoted here, along with the endless harvest of deeds that constitute verbatim application of the Muslim scriptures.
Have you considered carefully the counterfactual fruit of this poisoned tree? The instances are endless: proclamation of Islam as a liberator of non-Caucasians, when in fact Muslims have been the greatest enslavers in the history of the planet (and continue to be the only culture applauding and implementing enslavement of black Africans….research Mauritania, the Sudan, and Libya as well as ISIS…..Google what comes out of Al Ahram regarding Koranic approval of chattel slavery)…….Holocaust denials……the invention (and misnaming) of a “Palestinian” “nationality”………the bizarre assertion that Jews—-Judeans!—-“have no historic connection with Israel”……the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, printed in Arabic and distributed by any number of Muslim governments…….
I believe that Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are the faces of Amalek today……..primitive, mendacious, treacherous and bloodthirsty. I despise and detest what they bring to our polity, including their “identity politics.”
I invite your response. If I’m wrong, show me.
Westman says
University administrator? Yes, that does appear consistent with the age-old SJW university canard of “This minority group is only lagging because it is a minority”. Marx,Trotsky, Lenin, and a host of actors bought and sold that line while setting in motion the extermination of millions.
After various “affirmative actions” for more than two generations, the progress of certain minorities has lost its acceleration, not because of missing opportunity, rather, because of dissipation through alcohol, drugs, and men who won’t accept and carry family responsibilities. Faarakhan may brag about the million-man march, while Obama realized there were twice as many within a 100 mile radius of D. C. that didn’t show up, and so, he did little more than keep the programs in place and stopped prostrating to the old, now corrupt, leadership – unless you were an entertainer willing to perform for an evening at the White House.
What you, Moshe, and your university should realize, is that the final hurdle to progress is the culture of the minority group, itself. There is an old addage that, “You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink!”; which is totally lost on universities and their elite, would be, Social Justice Warriors Without Portfolio.
Islam in Muslim nations is no minority, yet, universities and SJW tell us that Muslims must have special privilege to make progress in the West. The utter dishonesty of that idea is manifest daily as Muslims stream to the West BECAUSE IN THE WEST THEY ARE NOT LIMITED BY THE HOST AS THEY WERE BY THEIR OWN CULTURE. Do they stream to Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, etc?
Some, unfortunately, wish to bring the ugly items, like antisemitism, with them and some want to create the very culture that stiffled opportunity. To oppose such thing is not Islamophobia, it is preservation of something much more valuable than life itself – freedom.
Nothing the SJWs promote will protect freedom and become, ultimately, control of humans and the division of wealth between a New Elite.
balafama says
i detect sarcasm in your comments and i am laughing so hard. truth is found in jests they say, woke indeed
gravenimage says
“Moshe” writes from the perspective of a tiresome troll. I am pretty much beyond caring whether his stupid bs is supposed to be sarcasm or not at this point.
Jayme says
I can’t remember his name but there use to be a Dem who was muslim that was not out spoken as Omar and was far easier to take.
elee says
As the kids say when someone farts: “Silent but deadly.”
gravenimage says
It’s just that Muslims had not used to be as emboldened as they are now.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
You’re probably talking about Andre Carson from Indianapolis. He went to the same high school as me. Like Keith Ellison, Carson converted from being a black American Christian to the wondrous religion of Islam. Ellison was head of the Democratic Party for a while, and his now Attorney General of the state of Minnesota.
Indiana Tom says
Sounds like a real Uncle Tom.
gravenimage says
He’s not an “Uncle Tom”–he’s just a very slow Slow Jihadist.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
As the nation sinks, the likes of Ilhan Omar rises. The degradation is not just around Islam, it’s happening around political economy, race, sex and several other venues. Right before our eyes we’re seeing the collapse of the American ideal of freedom. This ain’t just time-filler talk on Fox News, it looks real to me and is upsetting.
brane pilot says
‘On 9/11 some people did sumthin’
Ilhan Omar
Yeah. And some other people danced in the streets when they did it.
You know, those people no one can name because it might hurt their feelings.
And they might ‘do sumthin’.
And now they are in Congress where they can dictate Sharia Law that we must obey, in a judicial system where the US Constitution is on a roll in the restrooms of the 9th Circuit Federal Court in San Francisco.
You know, the court all the America haters take their issues to.
When they come for your guns in a few years, just say no.
Say Hell No.
Yes, it is going to come to that at some point.
Wellington says
The Democratic Party of old is no more.
Indiana Tom says
Might not have changed as much as many people think.
Westman says
I was once a Democrat….. then they ran down the rabbit hole and left me standing outside the tree. I can hear the Mad Hijabber from here. Queen Tlaib is yelling something about f-bombing heads… can’t quite make it out…..
Buraq says
Newsweek …….?! Surely a misspelling : Newsweak. There, fixed it! Clowns!
Westman says
In the 60’s Time magazine was the Left rag and Newsweek was the Right rag. Now, Newsweek is a turncoat for pieces of silver and the Weekly Standard is mouldering in the grave after pushing the Iraq War and going on to attack Trump. Now, Breitbart has more readers than Time and Newsweek, combined. The times, they are a changin’……..
Indiana Tom says
Newsweek to Newspeak.
Walter Sieruk says
That Muslim politician Ilhan Omar being so very anti-Jewish and anti-Israel must also be, in hidden essence, very anti-American .As the former US President ,William Howard Taft, had so wisely declared in a speech “Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Since this is the way Omar thinks and feels maybe she should leave America and go to live in , Jew hating, ,Saudi Arabia where she can feel “at home.”
elee says
Her home is the Muslim Utopia called Somalia, where everyone enjoys the blessings of a millennium and a half of Islam. You know, that place where we saved them from starvation and they all hate us.
James Lincoln says
So right now we have just two Muslim women in Congress, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
And the trouble they are causing.
Imagine if we had ten or twenty…
lebel says
It took a lot of courage to take on those that must not even be criticised.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/01/canadian-pm-harper-criticizing-israel-is-anti-semitic
Omar will pay and pay dearly but she showed that she is not scared.
Westman says
She only shows that she is not an Israeli whose life is daily threatened(nor does she care) and will become the Maxine Waters of Islam, while Tlaib becomes the Al Sharpton. At least there will be entertainment for congress’ chuckes and wry smiles.
Wellington says
I’m “inclined,” lebel, to think that every Buttlim (the way you guys pray is risible and hence my “descriptive”), should pay dearly. Ditto for followers of other hate organizations and ideologies. For instance, the KKK, Neo-Nazis, anarchists, Marxists, Satanists, et al.
Am I referencing Islam as a hate ideology and organization? You’re damn right I am.
Hey, lebel, imagine how much freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, equal rights under the law, rights for women who “don’t cover themselves,” rights for those who drink alcohol and eat fine pork products, rights for those who celebrate romantic love, rights for those who openly declare they are not religious at all, etc., would exist in America if only Islam could have its way of things here in America.
Your religion sucks, lebel. It stinks. Screw Islam just as I would say screw Nazism and Marxism. Take it from here, loser.
lebel says
“I’m “inclined,” lebel, to think that every Buttlim (the way you guys pray is risible and hence my “descriptive”), should pay dearly.”
Yeah but no violence right? right? I also note that you make no difference between Islam and Muslims which at least means we can move past the obvious lie that jihadwatchers hate an ideology, not the people.
Thanks for calling me a loser, I am refraining from insulting you or other jihadwatchers because I know that of course that would be a form of terrorism (and maybe anti-semitism given that this is a thread about Israel).
Kay says
I was married to someone like you once. Thank God I’m free now.
gravenimage says
“Not scared”? Right, as though this vicious antisemite has anything to fear from civilized Jews for badmouthing them.
eduardo odraude says
Bernard Lewis says Islam imposes, without limit of time or space, the duty to subjugate non-Muslims
Lewis, well-known historian of Islam and the Middle East, writes on p. 73 of The Political Language of Islam
https://books.google.com/books?id=NXCTjv2oFtUC&pg=PA73
Indiana Tom says
“Changing the Conversation on Israel”
Changing the Conversation about 9/11 as well.
somehistory says
“first-hand experiences of war and exile.””
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This is a twisted use of the fact that she was born in Somalia. Israel had nothing to do with the “war” in that country…where her moslim brothers were fighting the government.
Israel had nothing to do with omar going to Kenya with her family.
And, Israel had nothing to do with her coming to the U.S.
and if she considers being here as “in exile,” she is free to go home. She can resign her seat in Congress and catch the next flight out, taking her lying sneer and all of her slave “don’t rape me rape her” scarves with her.
“all forms of bigotry, instead of only Omar”
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This line is an acknowledgement that omar….is…a …bigot!! She’s also a snake and the daughter of the liar-in-chief…satan the devil.
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
” Omar articulates ”
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She talks a lot…has a big mouth and small brain and says things other people know are wrong and refrain.
But, she never ” articulates “….Her English is very poor in pronunciation and grammar. She lies a lot…spews her hatred and pettiness a lot…but she never ” articulates ”
Guess it’s hard for a snake to speak clearly.
A_M_Swallow says
Did the major left wing leaders like Stalin or Mao commit any major atrocities against the Jews? Possibly for several years.
The idea that Jews should support left wing leaders because they are (fake) friends of the Jews needs to be broken.
gravenimage says
Newsweek features anti-Semitic Rep. Omar on its cover: “Changing the Conversation on Israel”
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Yes–putting the destruction of Israel by ravening Mohammedans on the table is certainly “changing the conversation on Israel” in America. Why is this a good thing?
Newsweek has had antisemitic articles before, as well–like the vile Fareed Zacharia returning his award from the ADL and demanding that the Ground Zero Mosque be built.
James says
I find her so disgusting. She is living proof that the leftists are hypocrites whenever they call conservatives racists or white nationalists or whatever. They have reached probably the summit of hypocrisy with someone like that. If the Dems in Minnesota wanted to elect a Muslim, they could at least have chosen someone who believed in America and not jihad and sharia. They should push her out of office, deny her the nomination for Congress after this.