{"id":1971345,"date":"2023-07-12T20:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T00:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-ilhan-omar-lashes-out-at-israels-president-coming-to-congress\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T20:10:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T00:10:38","slug":"democrat-ilhan-omar-lashes-out-at-israels-president-coming-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-ilhan-omar-lashes-out-at-israels-president-coming-to-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilhan Omar criticizes Israel&#8217;s President visiting Congress."},"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%2Fdemocrat-ilhan-omar-lashes-out-at-israels-president-coming-to-congress%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=1971345&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--><h2>Rep. Ilhan Omar Faces Backlash Over Israel President&#8217;s Speech<\/h2>\n<p>Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-dakota-lowers-unemployment-to-pre-pandemic-levels-after-state-rejected-lockdowns\/\" title=\"South Dakota Lowers Unemployment to Pre-Pandemic Levels After State Rejected Lockdowns\">faced criticism<\/a> on Wednesday when she learned about Israel&#8217;s president delivering a speech to the U.S. Congress next week.<\/p>\n<p>The Messenger asked Omar about President Isaac Herzog&#8217;s upcoming speech on July 19th. Initially expressing outrage, Omar later admitted that she had no idea he was even coming.<\/p>\n<p>Omar firmly stated that she would not attend the speech, saying, &#8220;There&#8217;s no way in hell. I didn&#8217;t even know he was coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Omar, who has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/more-than-2000-rabbis-urge-congress-to-kick-ilhan-omar-off-foreign-affairs-committee\">long history<\/a> of spewing anti-Semitic hate, faced pushback from both sides of the political spectrum for her remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She didn&#8217;t know until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-pelosi-allowed-recently-covid-positive-rep-onto-house-floor-to-vote-for-her\/\" title=\"Report: Pelosi allowed recently COVID-positive rep. onto House floor to vote for her\">reporter asked<\/a> but had such strong feelings about it?&#8221; tweeted News Nation reporter Zaid Jilani. &#8220;Herzog is more of a figurehead in the country, the president is not part of day-to-day governance like the PM. I don&#8217;t think most critics of Israel even have a strong feeling about him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Herzog is more of a figurehead in the country, the president is not part of day-to-day governance like the PM. I don&#8217;t think most critics of Israel even have a strong feeling about him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZaidJilani\/status\/1679223713403633668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rabbi Yaakov Menken tweeted, &#8220;She will not be missed. In fact, she should make it a habit. The best possible contribution she could make for American values, tolerance, and decency is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-ilhan-omar-lashes-out-at-israels-president-coming-to-congress\/\" title=\"Ilhan Omar criticizes Israel's President visiting Congress.\">permanently stay home<\/a>. Why do Democrats persist in harboring this racist in their midst?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">She will not be missed. In fact, she should make it a habit. The best possible contribution she could make for American values, tolerance, and decency is to permanently stay home. Why do Democrats persist in harboring this racist in their midst? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xYccS5t2a3\">https:\/\/t.co\/xYccS5t2a3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rabbi Yaakov Menken (@ymenken) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ymenken\/status\/1679244064099643393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Omar Faces Consequences for Anti-Semitism<\/h3>\n<p>Omar&#8217;s anti-Semitism has become so problematic that the House of Representatives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republicans-boot-ilhan-omar-off-foreign-affairs-committee-over-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/things-that-donald-trump-did-not-do\/\" title=\"Things That Donald Trump Did Not Do\">anti-semitism<\/a>&#8220;>voted<\/a> to remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 222 Republicans in the House, 218 voted to remove Omar, while three did not vote and one, Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH), voted &#8220;present.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaker McCarthy highlighted many of Omar&#8217;s inflammatory and bigoted remarks, including the use of anti-Semitic tropes, comparing the U.S. Military to Islamic terrorist organizations, and describing the events of 9\/11 as &#8220;some people did something,&#8221; among numerous other statements. McCarthy also noted that Omar has &#8220;never apologized&#8221; for many of her remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) expressed anger upon discovering that Israel&#8217;s president will address the U.S. Congress next week. When asked about President Isaac Herzog&#8217;s upcoming speech on July 19th, Omar admitted she was unaware of it before reacting with outrage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1971346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-1971345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1971345","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}