{"id":1700473,"date":"2022-10-17T16:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T20:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700473"},"modified":"2022-10-17T17:03:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T21:03:21","slug":"anti-semite-ilhan-omar-accuses-trump-of-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-semite-ilhan-omar-accuses-trump-of-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Semite Ilhan Omar Accuses Trump of Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanti-semite-ilhan-omar-accuses-trump-of-anti-semitism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700473&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Rep. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ilhan-omar\">Ilhan Omar<\/a> (D-MN) used a familiar rebuke in reacting to former President Donald Trump over his statement Sunday <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/trump-jews-support-israel\">criticizing Jews<\/a> in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, which aired hours after Trump&#8217;s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/trump-jews-support-israel\">Truth Social<\/a> post drew backlash and headlines, Omar invoked the same sort of language levied at her years ago in response to controversial comments she made about Jewish people. The congresswoman did so as she slammed the &#8220;hypocrisy of the Republicans,&#8221; saying they have not rushed to condemn Trump like they might have done with her.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/trump-jews-support-israel\">TRUMP RANTS ABOUT US JEWS NEEDING &#8216;TO GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER&#8217; AND &#8216;APPRECIATE&#8217; ISRAEL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump \u201crepeatedly invokes dual loyalty tropes that are harmful and dangerous,\u201d Omar told host Mehdi Hasan on MSNBC. \u201cAntisemitism is on the rise, and all of us have a responsibility to condemn it,&#8221; she also said.<\/p>\n<p>It was in February 2019, when Omar was still a first-term congresswoman, that she sent out a series of tweets complaining about the influence of the pro-Israel lobby on Congress and, at one point, said, &#8220;It&#8217;s all about the Benjamins, baby!&#8221; This elicited backlash for what many people viewed as antisemitic comments, including <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2019\/02\/11\/its-all-about-benjamins-baby-ilhan-omar-again-accused-anti-semitism-over-tweets\/\">Democratic leadership who condemned<\/a> Omar\u2019s \u201cuse of anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel\u2019s supporters&#8221; and Republicans, including Trump himself, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/02\/12\/693916631\/trump-calls-on-rep-ilhan-omar-to-resign-over-remarks-criticized-as-anti-semitic\">who called on Omar to resign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe former President knowingly, repeatedly invokes dual loyalty tropes that are harmful and dangerous. &#8230; Anti-Semitism is on the rise and all of us have a responsibility to condemn it,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IlhanMN<\/a> says to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mehdirhasan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MehdiRHasan<\/a> in reaction to Donald Trump&#8217;s latest bigotry. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HIzaNPCE6C\">pic.twitter.com\/HIzaNPCE6C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Mehdi Hasan Show (@MehdiHasanShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MehdiHasanShow\/status\/1581813890895081473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2022<\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>Omar soon tweeted out a statement in which she acknowledged that \u201canti-Semitism is real\u201d and said that she was \u201cgrateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating [her] on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes.\u201d She added that she \u201cunequivocally apologize[d]&#8221; but later equivocated on the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/ilhan-omar-equivocates-on-her-anti-semitism-statement-i-apologized-for-the-way-that-my-words-made-people-feel\">&#8220;unequivocal apology&#8221;<\/a> she offered, insisting, &#8220;I apologized for the way that my words made people feel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who were the first Muslim women elected to Congress, had previously taken heat for their vocal support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel for its treatment of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump criticized Jews in the U.S. over a perceived lack of support for Israel. &#8220;No President has done more for Israel than I have. Somewhat surprisingly, however, our wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the U.S. Those living in Israel, though, are a different story \u2014 Highest approval rating in the World, could easily be P.M.! U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel \u2014 Before it is too late!&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who chastised Trump for the post was the head of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) used a familiar rebuke in reacting to former President Donald Trump over his statement Sunday criticizing Jews in the United States. 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