Rep. Ilhan Omar really can’t help herself when it comes to Israel and the Jews.
Scant days after Hamas launched its brutal attacks on Israel, killing and raping indiscriminately and taking toddlers hostage, the Squad member took to X to denounce … the Jewish state.
She called Israel’s response to the attacks a “war crime” and demanded that Washington oppose it and cut off arms sales to the embattled nation.
No one should be surprised: Omar (D-Minn.) has made her hostility to Jews plain for years.
In 2019, she implied that American lawmakers who support Israel had been bribed to do so by AIPAC with a tweet saying, “it’s all about the Benjamins baby.” In 2012, she tweeted, “Israel has hypnotized the world.”
When called out on this, she claimed in her defense that “I certainly did not or was not aware that the word ‘hypnotized’ was a trope. I wasn’t aware of the fact that there are tropes about Jews and money.”
Right.
She’s also equated Israel with the Taliban,tried to block funding for Israel’s anti-rocket Iron Dome systemand co-sponsored legislation officially describing Israel’s founding as a “catastrophe.”
In her hypocrisy, she has much in common with fellow Squad members.
Like Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib, who issued a statement Sunday attacking Israel and refusing to condemn Hamas. (Tlaib also once notably said that the thought of the Holocaust inspired a “calming feeling” in her.)
And Missouri’s Cori Bush, who on Saturday also called for “ending U.S. government support for Israeli military occupation and apartheid.”
And New York’s own Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who demanded an “immediate ceasefire and de-escalation” as she slammed the non-existent “occupation” of Gaza (from which Israel withdrew in 2005).
This rhetoric and the hatred it conceals have long been welcome in the Democratic Party.
House Dems, after all, found themselves unable to censure Omar for her blatantly antisemitic remarks and let her remain on the House Foreign Relations Committee. (The GOP booted her once it won a majority last year.)
The party was unable to contain her evil before. Will it make any effort to do so now?
If it can’t, its future looks even uglier than it did last week.