We’ll see if McCarthy follows through. Don’t be surprised if they strike some deal and he backs down.
“Kevin McCarthy to pull Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs committee over antisemitism,” by Ari Hoffman, The Post Millennial, November 19, 2022:
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Saturday that when he becomes the speaker of the House of Representatives in January he plans to remove “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar, (D-MN), from the House Foreign Affairs Committee due to her “antisemitic” comments.
When the Republicans take the majority in the House next year, McCarthy will likely become the next speaker, pending a vote for the position on Jan. 3.
Speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s 2022 leadership meeting in Las Vegas McCarthy pledged to the audience “We watch antisemitism grow, not just on our campuses, but we watched it grow In the halls of Congress. I promised you last year that as speaker she will no longer be on Foreign Affairs, and I’m keeping that promise.”
The room erupted in cheers in response.
Since she was elected to Congress in 2018, Omar has had a history of making many comments against Jews and Israel and using antisemitic tropes. After being elected to Congress, she submitted a resolution to the House comparing boycotting the Jewish state of Israel to boycotting the Nazis.
In February 2021, 1,500 rabbis called on Congress to rescind the appointment of Rep. Ilhan Omar, (D-MN), to the position of vice chair of the House foreign affairs subcommittee based on her past anti-Semitic statements and behavior.
Omar has an extensive history of using anti-Semitic statements and tropes as well as promoting conspiracy theories about Jews. In a now-deleted tweet Omar wrote “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. #Gaza#Palestine#Israel”
In another now-deleted tweet, Omar said Jews were buying political support tweeting, “It’s all about the Benjamins baby.”
According to The Daily Wire, in an interview, Omar suggested: “Israel should not be allowed to exist as a Jewish state, Israel is not a democracy, and compared Israel to Iran — which is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.”
Omar also embraced the anti-Semitic heads of the Woman’s March which included Linda Sarsour….
Ari Dale says
Ilhan, be gone !
࿗Infidel࿘ says
She’s more than just anti-Jewish, which is bad enough: she’s anti-Hindu as well. Also, her tete-a-tetes w/ muslim strongmen like Erdogan and Imran Khan are strong reasons to exclude her from such a committee, given that both these countries are de-facto adversaries, whether or not the US government recognizes it
Uma Maheswar Nakka says
First and foremost, how was this woman chosen as an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district since 2019 and a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party? And how she still continues as a politician with huge publicity? .
Wellington says
In answer to your understandable query, it is because America let in a ton of Somalis, many of whom now reside in Omar’s Congressional district in Minnesota. This is what can happen in democracies which falsely assume that most everyone is into freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom all around.
No, totalitarian types like Muzzies, Neo-Nazis and Marxists will take advantage of freedom in order to destroy freedom. Add to this addled brains who function in Leftthink, and particularly to what passes for journalism today, and you have a “fine recipe” for someone like Omar being where she is.
sherc100 says
@Uma Maheswar Nakka, Ilhan Omar was elected because, thanks to Obama, her district is majority Somali immigrants. It is so overwhelmingly Muslim there are “no go” zones in their neighborhoods. She will continue to be reelected because of this.
bill carr says
Simple, she has been sponsored and patronised by Pelosi who has never done anything to reign her in as she should have done as house leader
Keith O says
Ilhan Omar is anti everything except her bank account and Islamic supremacy.
She has no place in any nations free society nor government.
This woman has demonstrated her contempt for America, for Israel and for the laws of America, get rid of her from ANY and ALL positions of power.
James Lincoln says
Let me get something off my chest:
Ilhan Omar is a despicable -and devout – muslima snake.
Walter Sieruk says
That Muslim politician ,Ilhan Omar is very anti-Jewish and likewise very anti- Israel, as seen in those anti- Israel foreign policies she always keeps on pushing for. Therefore Omar is ,in essences, un-American . As former US President, William Howard Taft, wisely, declared in a speech that “Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out it has no place in America.”
Related to this is a grand statement in a speech former President Theodore Roosevelt, rightly, declared, “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
In addition, Omar is so terrible and such a danger to US Homeland Security that even an American imam had described Omar as “ISIS with lipstick.” [1]
[1] THUMP CARD by Dinesh D’ Souza
ConnSCG says
Looking at how Ihlan Omar has conducted herself in the past and the way she is still conducting herself, she should have been removed from Congress by now.
She is not only anti Israel, she’s also anti American and quite clearly an Islamic supremacist …
NoTaqiyya says
Ilhan Omar represents everything that’s wrong with the Democratic Party. How can they re-elect her after her vile Anti-Semitic statements?
Not only is she Anti-Semitic, she’s also Anti-American. An ungrateful, obnoxiously entitled Anti-White bigot who gamed the system to benefit her while spewing hatred against the very country that gave her the opportunity to have a far better life.
Member of that vile Squad. All of them viciously Anti-American. They represent the worst of the Democratic party’s Left Wing.
Time for the GOP to stop being nice to nasty people. Good riddance.