The Minnesota Democrat tweeted remarks this week that appeared to equate the United States and Israel with Hamas and the Taliban. The Democratic leadership issued a rebuke of her remarks.
A group of House Democrats condemned Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) on Wednesday for equating the United States and Israel with Hamas and the Taliban, saying her false equivalency "give[s] cover to terrorist groups."
But progressive congresswoman also attacks as 'shameful' and 'Islamophobic' a statement by 12 Jewish colleagues against her earlier comments on alleged war crimes
House progressives rallied behind Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Thursday as she sought to clarify that her discussion of alleged international human rights abuses wasn’t drawing false equivalence between the U.S.