House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is making excuses for Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar.
As the House wrangles over a resolution to denounce anti-Semitism — and effectively Omar’s most recent remarks, Pelosi tells Jake Sherman that she “did not think Omar’s comments were ‘intentionally anti-Semitic.'”
PELOSI just told us she did not think @IlhanMN’s comments were “intentionally anti Semitic”
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 6, 2019
He added that Pelosi’s “isn’t sure a resolution will get a vote this week.”
Omar came under fire yet again when she criticized supporters of Israel, claiming they
The AP reported March 1:
Rep. Ilhan Omar has come under fresh criticism for remarks critics call anti-Semitic.
The Minnesota Democrat was appearing at a forum in Washington with Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan when she said she fears everything they say about Israel is construed as anti-Semitic because they’re Muslim.
But some Jewish leaders say Omar then revived an old trope about divided loyalties among Jewish-Americans when she criticized the idea that it’s “OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country.”
Sherman reports the Foreign Affairs committee is drafting the resolution.
It’s not the first time Omar has been accused of anti-Semitism.
In February, she apologized, according to Fox News:
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., apologized Monday for comments in which she implied that a prominent pro-Israel lobby compensated lawmakers for their support of the Jewish state, but insisted on what she called “the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics.”
It was “shocking to hear a Member of Congress invoke the anti-Semitic trope of ‘Jewish money,'” Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said.
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