Ilhan Omar: Telling The Truth Was No Easy Decision!

Ilhan Omar continues to tell the world the hard truth. Israel is an apartheid state.

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The Democrats are feuding with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over her stances with the nation of Israel.

Like I've said multiple times, the usual tactics of deflection is to toss baseless accusations against critics of the state. The Republicans and Democrats continue to equate Israel with the Jewish faith. 

Again, Israel is not a Jewish state. It is a secular state and no official religion. Although 84% of the nation's residents are practicing Jews, there is no state religion.

The criticism of Israel's treatment towards the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip have activists calling for the country to be held accountable for war crimes. The state of Israel is an apartheid.

That is a fact.

But the United States and six member nations refuse to condemn the state. After all in the minds of Americans, "Israel has the right to defend itself and the right to exist."

Again, Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) are scapegoated for everything in relation to Israel.

No one seems to attack Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) or Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) for speaking out against the atrocities committed by Israel.

It's always the Black woman and Brown woman who are Muslims. 

Whenever they criticize the country, the Democrats and Republicans are quick to call them anti-Semitic. In turn, they're showing how they're Islamophobic and overly wrong in attacking them for having an opinion about injustices done towards the Palestinians.

Omar had equated the U.S., Israel with the Gaza Strip's Hamas. The actions of these three have led to numerous deaths and destruction in the region. Yet anytime we speak out against injustices, the far-right and some moderates want to silence their voices.

Ilhan Omar tells Jake Tapper that Jewish House members who criticized her hateful anti-Semitic rhetoric “haven’t been partners in justice.” Tapper just sits there with a dumb look on his face. pic.twitter.com/yAeAhmqlQb

— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) June 29, 2021

Omar during a CNN interview Tuesday, claiming that her fellow Democrats in particular the ones who wrote that letter aimed at her “haven’t been partners in justice.”

During Omar’s appearance on “The Lead,” host Jake Tapper cited some of the congresswoman’s statements that have led to accusations that she is anti-Semitic. Tapper specifically cited a February 2019 tweet that stated the alliance between the US and Israel is “all about the Benjamins” and a 2012 message in which she claimed that Israel “has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel”.

“Do you understand why some of your fellow House Democrats, especially Jews, find that language anti-Semitic?” Tapper asked.

“I’ve welcomed, you know, anytime my colleagues have asked to have a conversation, to learn from them, for them to learn from me,” Omar responded. “I think it’s really important for these members to realize that they haven’t been partners in justice. They haven’t been, you know, equally engaging in seeking justice around the world.

“And I think, you know, I will continue to do that,” she added. “It is important for me, as someone who knows what it feels like to experience injustice in ways that many of my colleagues don’t, to be a voice in finding accountability, asking for mechanisms for justice for those who are maligned, oppressed, and who have had injustice done to them.”

Omar did not mention any names in her answer. However, earlier this month she blasted a group of Jewish House Democrats who pushed back on her claim that the US, Israel, Hamas and the Taliban had all committed “unthinkable atrocities.”

In a statement released by Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL.), Omar was urged to “clarify her words placing the US and Israel in the same category as Hamas and the Taliban.”

“The United States and Israel are imperfect and, like all democracies, at times deserving of critique, but false equivalencies give cover to terrorist groups,” concluded the statement, which was co-signed by Reps. Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts, Ted Deutch of Florida, Lois Frankel of Florida, Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, Elaine Luria of Virginia, Kathy Manning of North Carolina, Jerrold Nadler of New York, Dean Phillips of Minnesota, Kim Schrier of Washington, Brad Sherman of California and Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida.

Omar accused her colleagues of trafficking in “[I]slamophobic tropes,” as well as “constant harassment & silencing.”

House Republicans called on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA.), to remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her comments, and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has vowed to strip Omar of that assignment if Republicans take the House of Representatives in next year’s midterm election.