{"id":1830887,"date":"2023-01-31T23:49:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830887"},"modified":"2023-01-31T23:50:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:50:24","slug":"more-than-2000-rabbis-urge-congress-to-kick-ilhan-omar-off-foreign-affairs-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-2000-rabbis-urge-congress-to-kick-ilhan-omar-off-foreign-affairs-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 2,000 Rabbis Urge Congress To Kick Ilhan Omar Off Foreign Affairs Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fmore-than-2000-rabbis-urge-congress-to-kick-ilhan-omar-off-foreign-affairs-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=1830887&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>An organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11698185\/More-2-000-rabbis-urge-McCarthy-kick-Ilhan-Omar-Foreign-Affairs-Committee.html?ns_mchannel=rss&#038;ns_campaign=1490&#038;ito=1490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Representing<\/a> Over 2,000 rabbis have urged congressional leaders to keep Rep. Ilhan Olmar (D\u2013MN) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee because of her history of anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>The letter comes as a small group of Republicans, including Reps. Nancy Mace (SC), Victoria Spartz (IN), and Ken Buck (CO) have suggested that they may not support House Speaker Kevin McCarthy\u2019s (R-CA) bid to kick her off the committee.<\/p>\n<p>The Coalition for Jewish Values addressed the letter to McCarthy and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), asking that Congress follows through on McCarthy\u2019s pledge to remove her from the committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a political matter, but one of moral conscience, and a necessary step to quell the rising tide of antisemitic speech and violence now impacting Jewish communities across America,\u201d Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld was President, and Rabbi Yaakov Meken was Managing Director.<\/p>\n<p>Omar is also mentioned in the letter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ilhan-omar-on-her-history-of-anti-semitism-i-didnt-understand-i-was-trafficking-in-anti-semitism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Claim<\/a> In a CNN interview, she said that she didn&#8217;t know that her anti-Semitic statements were true \u201cwere trafficking in antisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn three separate occasions, we wrote to the previous Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, to make this same request,\u201d The rabbis wrote. \u201cWe were ignored all three times, while antisemitic hate crimes became ever more common in this country. Upon learning of the appointment of Rep. Omar to the Foreign Affairs committee, we wrote to express our \u2018alarm, dismay and outrage,\u2019 given that even before her election to Congress, Ms. Omar had repeatedly used antisemitic tropes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the rabbis, Omar&#8217;s inclusion on the committee would encourage anti-Semitism in the U.S. as well as Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLess than a month later, we renewed our request after Rep. Omar showed that her bigotry was unabated,\u201d They wrote. \u201cShe employed, among others, the classic trope of Jewish disloyalty, and implied that House colleagues who supported Israel had been bought off. As she wrote, \u2018it\u2019s all about the Benjamins.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group continued by highlighting numerous other instances of Omar\u2019s anti-Semitism and saying it was \u201cclear that the failure of Congress to dissociate itself from Rep. Omar\u2019s bigotry helped create the environment of hate now evident in New York and across the country, precisely as Lord Rabbi Sacks warned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that to remove Rep. Omar from the Foreign Affairs committee is the only morally responsible choice for a Member of Congress who opposes racism, bigotry, and antisemitism,\u201d The letter was closed. \u201cWe implore each and every member to demonstrate their concern for all of America\u2019s minorities, by acting against hatred directed against those most frequently targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An organization representing more than 2,000 rabbis is urging congressional leaders to keep Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) off the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her extensive history of anti-Semitism. The letter comes as a small group of Republicans, including Reps. Nancy Mace (SC), Victoria Spartz (IN), and Ken Buck (CO) have suggested that they may &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1445220,"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":[11234,10077,4384,4402,5542,5202,5959,5205,17204,4927],"class_list":["post-1830887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-11234","tag-affairs","tag-committee","tag-congress","tag-foreign","tag-ilhan","tag-kick","tag-omar","tag-rabbis","tag-urge"],"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\/1830887","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1445220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}