Speaker Pelosi on Rep. Omar's comments: 'I don't think that the congresswoman perhaps appreciates the full weight of how it was heard by other people, although I don't believe it was intended in an anti-Semitic way.'
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., sits with fellow Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee during a bill markup in Washington on March 6, 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Rebecca Shabad, Alex Moe, Garrett Haake and Kasie HuntRep. Ilhan Omar's latest controversial comments on Israel policy
After the freshman Minnesota Democrat appeared to suggest last week that U.S. supporters of Israel had"allegiance to a foreign country," House Democratic leaders had planned to craft a simple resolution that would condemn anti-Semitism without identifying her, and to hold a vote on the measure Wednesday.
Omar sparked a new firestorm one week ago for criticizing what she called"the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country," again comparing organized political support for Israel to lobbying efforts for"the NRA, or fossil fuel industries or Big Pharma.
"Gross islamophobic stereotypes - like those about @IlhanMN recently featured on posters in WVA - are offensive and have no place in political discourse," she tweeted over the weekend, referring to a widely-criticizedthat attempted to visually link Omar to the bombing of the World Trade Center."Anti-Semitic tropes that accuse Jews of dual loyalty are equally painful and must also be roundly condemned.
Majority Whip Jim Clyburn defended Omar Wednesday, arguing that her life experience as a Somali refugee is more"personal" than that of many Jews. “I’m serious about that. There are people who tell me, ‘Well, my parents are Holocaust survivors.’ ‘My parents did this.’ It’s more personal with her,” Clyburn said. “I’ve talked to her, and I can tell you she is living through a lot of pain.”
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