Tag: Ilhan Omar
Pro-Israel groups take issue with appointment of Omar to House Foreign Affairs Committee
It didn’t take long for Jewish and Israel-related groups to react to the appointment of anti-Israel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Along with several other new members of Congress, Omar has gained...
![Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1024px-Steve_King_by_Gage_Skidmore-324x235.jpg "Don’t tolerate hate in the name of inclusion")
Don’t tolerate hate in the name of inclusion
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is the poster child for the Republican Party’s problem with right-wing extremism. His fate also provides an object lesson in how American democracy has always had a knack for dealing...
Anti-Israel Democrat Ilhan Omar appointed to House Foreign Affairs Committee
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to serve on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, despite anti-Israel statements made by the freshman Democrat, such as tweeting that “Israel has hypnotized the world,” and her support for...
Former Clinton White House communications director on Tlaib, Omar, Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic agenda
Prominent Democratic strategist and former Clinton White House communications director Ann Lewis appeared to sidestep the anti-Israel issues surrounding freshmen Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-N.Y.).
Lewis was speaking at an...
The mission to ‘Palestine’ will hurt J Street, not AIPAC
At first glance, it’s a one-sided struggle.
On the one hand, you have incoming House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland. On the other, there is freshman Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Both Hoyer and...
Will the anti-Israel proclivities of new House Democrats affect others in the party?
One of the biggest storylines coming out of the recent midterm elections was the changing face of the newly elected members of Congress. The incoming 116th Congress will have its largest share of women...