{"id":1973243,"date":"2023-07-14T15:29:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T19:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-accuses-democrats-of-antisemitism-over-israeli-president-boycott\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T15:29:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T19:29:49","slug":"house-gop-accuses-democrats-of-antisemitism-over-israeli-president-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-accuses-democrats-of-antisemitism-over-israeli-president-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP accuses Dems of anti-Semitism for boycotting Israeli president."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fhouse-gop-accuses-democrats-of-antisemitism-over-israeli-president-boycott%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=1973243&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>House Republicans Criticize Democratic Boycott of Israeli President&#8217;s Speech<\/h2>\n<p>House Republicans are expressing their disapproval of a group of Democrats who have announced their intention to boycott a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigans-matt-sealy-explains-how-president-trump-has-several-paths-to-victorynever-count-donald-trump-out-video\/\" title=\"Michigan\u2019s Matt Sealy Explains How President Trump Has SEVERAL Paths To Victory\u2026\u201dNever count Donald Trump out!\u201d [VIDEO]\">joint session<\/a> of Congress next week, which will include a speech by Israeli President Isaac Herzog.<\/p>\n<p>At least three House Democrats, including Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-enough-votes-mcconnell-says-eliminating-60-vote-filibuster-is-dead\/\" title=\"\u2018Not Enough Votes\u2019 \u2013 McConnell Says Eliminating 60-Vote Filibuster is Dead\">publicly stated<\/a> their opposition to Herzog&#8217;s address and declared their boycott of the event scheduled for Wednesday. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has condemned their decision and accused the group of liberals of antisemitism.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenging Amendments Complicate McCarthy&#8217;s Task of Passing the NDAA<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I firmly believe that antisemitism has no place anywhere, and especially not within Congress,&#8221; McCarthy emphasized during a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic lawmakers have pushed back against these accusations, arguing that their boycott is a form of protest against the policies of the Israeli government and its treatment of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Omar was the first to publicly oppose the joint address, expressing in a tweet earlier this week that there was &#8220;no way in hell&#8221; she would attend. She cited the Israeli government&#8217;s decision in 2019 to block Muslims from entering the country as one of the reasons for her boycott.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should not be inviting the President of Israel\u2014a government that, under its current Prime Minister, barred the first two Muslim women elected to Congress from visiting the country\u2014to give a joint address to Congress,&#8221; Omar stated in a tweet, referring to herself and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).<\/p>\n<p>Tlaib has not yet announced whether she plans to attend the joint session.<\/p>\n<p>Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) responded to the boycott on Friday, acknowledging that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-accuses-democrats-of-antisemitism-over-israeli-president-boycott\/\" title=\"House GOP accuses Dems of anti-Semitism for boycotting Israeli president.\">individual members make individual decisions<\/a>.&#8221; However, he noted that a majority of the Democratic caucus is expected to be present.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I anticipate an incredibly strong turnout and active participation from House Democrats on Wednesday,&#8221; he affirmed, expressing his eagerness to welcome Herzog &#8220;with open arms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that Democrats have boycotted a joint address of Congress featuring a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-taking-calls-with-foreign-leaders-on-behalf-of-biden-report\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris Taking Calls With Foreign Leaders On Behalf Of Biden: Report\">foreign leader<\/a>. The same group, along with Reps. Cori Bush (D-MO), Summer Lee (D-PA), and Tlaib, also abstained from attending Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s joint address last month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans criticize Democrats boycotting Israeli President Isaac Herzog&#8217;s speech at a joint session of Congress. Reps. Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Jamaal Bowman are among the Democrats opposing Herzog&#8217;s address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1973244,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1973243","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}