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Posted on January 17, 2019 by John Hinderaker in Democrats, Ilhan Omar
Omar Appointed to House Foreign Relations Committee [Updated]
We are awash these days in faux scandals, but this is a real one:
Nancy Pelosi has appointed Ilhan Omar to the House Foreign Relations Committee. Omar is viciously anti-Israel and, I think, pretty clearly an anti-Semite. This is one of her notorious pronouncements on Israel:
Omar also has come out in favor of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, a movement that is diametrically opposed to bipartisan U.S. foreign policy.
Omar announced her plum committee assignment on Twitter this afternoon:
Republicans were quick to denounce the appointment. Chuck Schumer should have criticized it, too. He has denounced BDS as “anti-Semitism.” (I think he is right about that.) For that matter, Pelosi, too, has said “Congress ‘must’ oppose BDS.”
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said, “I would love to know what changed, because Democratic leaders just promoted a pro-BDS Democrat to a key committee that deals with the State of Israel.” But I think we all know what has changed: there is a new wind blowing through the Democratic Party, and Ilhan Omar, despite her youth and inexperience (or perhaps because of those qualities), typifies it. The Democratic Party is increasingly anti-Israel and flirts, to be charitable, with anti-Semitism. Today we see the latest evidence of the character of what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls the “New party.”
UPDATE: Earlier today, Omar was asked about her claim that Israel is “evil” on CNN. You can judge her response for yourself:
The Minnesota press has consistently run interference for Omar and has buried negative facts about her. Possibly the national press will not be quite so pliable.
Wouldn't her background show the marriage fraud? The immigration fraud? The campaign finance issues? The fact that she conned NDSU to get lower tuition? The fact that she lived with both men (brother and cultural husband) at the same time? The fact that her cultural husband had a gang name (Southside)? The fact that she and her husband lived in subsidized housing last year while she worked in the State House and her husband is able-bodied and could have had a job?
She should have been arrested long ago for Immigration fraud, Tax fraud, Welfare fraud, Student Loan fraud, Perjury, and giving cair, hamas, hezbollah and moslem brotherhood a top security clearance and seat in our government…Red flags should be exploding!
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