{"id":1829154,"date":"2023-01-30T14:04:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T19:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829154"},"modified":"2023-01-30T14:06:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T19:06:31","slug":"ilhan-omar-insinuates-gop-racist-for-attempting-to-remove-her-from-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-insinuates-gop-racist-for-attempting-to-remove-her-from-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilhan Omar Insinuates GOP Racist For Attempting To Remove Her From Committee"},"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\">24<\/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%2Filhan-omar-insinuates-gop-racist-for-attempting-to-remove-her-from-committee%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=1829154&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>Democrat firebrand Rep. Ilhan Omar suggested Sunday that racism is behind House Speaker Kevin McCarthy\u2019s effort to remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota lawmaker, who appeared on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d has been accused in the past of pushing anti-Semitic tropes and recently drew fire for\u00a0equating the U.S. and Israel with the Taliban and Hamas.\u00a0McCarthy, who was offended by her statements, has also moved to block Omar\u2019s fellow Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from serving on the House Intelligence Committee based on their past behavior. But in her case, Omar said McCarthy\u2019s decision was \u201cpolitically motivated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, in some cases, it\u2019s motivated by the fact that many of these members don\u2019t believe a Muslim, a refugee, an African should even be in Congress, let alone have the opportunity to serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When CNN host Dana Bash pressed her, asking if she was\u00a0accusing McCarthy of racism, the Somali-born lawmaker appeared to demur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I\u2019m not making any accusations,\u201d Omar said. \u201cI\u2019m just laying out the facts.\u00a0\u2026 These people are okay with Islamophobia. They\u2019re okay with trafficking in their own ways in antisemitism. They are not okay with having a Muslim have a voice on that committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Omar also denied having ever promoted racist views of Jews. Omar said that past comments, including a 2019 tweet in which she accused Israeli lobbyists off buying Washington legislators, and an older one in which it was saying Israel had, were not intentional. \u201chypnotized the world,\u201d They were innocent errors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat has been a very enlightening part of this journey. To insinuate that I\u2019ve knowingly said these things, when people have read into my comments to make it sound as if I have something against the Jewish community is so wrong,\u201d She said.<\/p>\n<p>March 2019, the writing in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/03\/ilhan-omars-dual-loyalty-charge-was-anti-semitic\/584314\/\">The Atlantic<\/a>Rahm Emanuel, former Chicago Mayor and Obama Chief Of Staff, slammed Omar&#8217;s incessant stream of anti-Semitic invective. \u201cHer remarks are not anti-Israel; they are anti-Semitic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emanuel started by mentioning Omar, claiming that her remarks were condemned by \u201cmost of her fellow Democrats.\u201d He also documented her infuriating statements, including her suggestion that Israel supporters held dual loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is questioning the right of members of Congress and others to criticize Israeli policies,\u201d Emanuel wrote. \u201cBut Omar is crossing a line that should not be crossed in political discourse. Her remarks are not anti-Israel; they are anti-Semitic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat firebrand Rep. Ilhan Omar suggested Sunday that racism is behind House Speaker Kevin McCarthy\u2019s effort to remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The Minnesota lawmaker, who appeared on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d has been accused in the past of pushing anti-Semitic tropes and recently drew fire for\u00a0equating the U.S. and Israel &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1132499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5124,4384,6203,5202,17001,5205,4903,4987],"class_list":["post-1829154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-attempting","tag-committee","tag-gop","tag-ilhan","tag-insinuates","tag-omar","tag-racist","tag-remove"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1132499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}