National Republican Congressional Committee criticizes Omar over tweet A tweet following a Foreign Affairs hearing led to the blast from the House Republicans campaign arm. June 8, 2021 4:54pm Text size Copy shortlink:
WASHINGTON – The House GOP s campaign arm is blasting Rep. Ilhan Omar over a tweet about alleged war crimes.
On Monday, the Minnesota Democrat tweeted a video of her exchange with Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a hearing by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. During the back and forth, Omar pressed Blinken on the struggles for victims of war crimes to get justice outside of the International Criminal Court.
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Omar compared the US and Israel to terrorist organizations in provocative tweet
Democrats have denounced her outrageous and clearly false statements
On Thursday, she accused them of using offensive Islamophobic themes
Her office said the result had been a surge in death threats
Other members of the so-called squad of progressive Democrats Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leapt to her defense
A day earlier Jewish Democrats met to discuss how to respond to her comments
Brad Sherman said the real insight was Omar admitting atrocities by Hamas
New York Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin said Omar should be removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee
Rep. Ilhan Omar slammed "constant harassment & silencing" from a group of House Democrats in an early-Thursday morning tweet as simmering tensions and infighting over her alleged anti-Semitism exploded out into the open.