{"id":564231,"date":"2021-06-15T10:22:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564231"},"modified":"2021-06-15T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:22:06","slug":"kevin-mccarthy-promises-to-strip-ilhan-omar-of-committee-spot-over-antisemitic-anti-american-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-promises-to-strip-ilhan-omar-of-committee-spot-over-antisemitic-anti-american-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin McCarthy Promises To Strip Ilhan Omar Of Committee Spot Over \u2018Antisemitic, Anti-American\u2019 Statements"},"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\">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%2Fkevin-mccarthy-promises-to-strip-ilhan-omar-of-committee-spot-over-antisemitic-anti-american-statements%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=564231&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ilhan-Omar.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) pledged to strip Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of her committee assignment should the GOP win back the House next term.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy blasted Omar during a Fox News interview on Tuesday morning and said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should hold Omar accountable for her rhetoric and strip the Minnesota representative of her spot on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. McCarthy is pushing a resolution in the House to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution is likely to fail, however, as Democratic leaders have moved to put out the fires started last week when Omar called for equal accountability for \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d committed by \u201cthe U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban.\u201d Pelosi refused to condemn the remark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will promise you this: If we are fortunate enough to have the majority, Omar would not be serving on Foreign Affairs, or anybody that has an anti-Semitic, anti-American view. That is not productive and that is not right,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.365269461078\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy goes after Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will promise you this: If we are fortunate enough to have the majority, Omar would not be serving on Foreign Affairs [Committee] or anybody that has an anti-semitic, anti-American view.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aLUGsJfW2t\">pic.twitter.com\/aLUGsJfW2t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1404779606897537024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Traditionally, each House caucus is responsible for policing its own members with little interference other than public criticism from the other side. Democrats violated the unspoken rule earlier this year when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/marjorie-greene-removed-from-committees-multiple-republicans-vote-to-remove-her\">stripping<\/a> Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments. Eleven Republicans sided with the Democratic majority in the vote.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving bipartisan backlash for her remark, Omar put out a <a href=\"https:\/\/omar.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/rep-ilhan-omar-statement-questions-during-house-foreign-affairs-committee\">statement<\/a> Thursday saying that she was not attempting to draw a \u201cmoral comparison between Hamas and the Taliban and the U.S. and Israel.\u201d Omar said she was only speaking of \u201congoing International Criminal Court investigations,\u201d though did not specify any.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi and other leading Democrats thanked her for the \u201cclarification\u201d and indicated that the caucus did not plan to take any disciplinary action against her. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pelosi-leading-democrats-thank-ilhan-omar-for-clarification-of-statements-equating-us-israel-with-hamas-taliban\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p><em>Pelosi and fellow House Democrats, including Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), issued their own statement in appreciation of Omar\u2019s \u201cclarification.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLegitimate criticism of the policies of both the United States and Israel is protected by the values of free speech and democratic debate, and indeed, such criticism is essential to the strength and health of our democracies. But drawing false equivalencies between democracies like the U.S. and Israel and groups that engage in terrorism like Hamas and the Taliban foments prejudice and undermines progress toward a future of peace and security for all,\u201d the group wrote.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe welcome the clarification by Congresswoman Omar that there is no more equivalency between the U.S. and Israel and Hamas and the Taliban,\u201d they said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Wednesday night, a dozen House Democrats put out a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-only-12-democrats-condemn-ilhan-omar-for-comparing-u-s-israel-to-terrorists\">blasting<\/a> Omar over her remarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEquating the United States and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban is as offensive as it is misguided,\u201d they wrote. \u201cIgnoring the differences between democracies governed by the rule of law and contemptible organizations that engage in terrorism at best discredits one\u2019s intended argument and at worst reflects deep-seated prejudice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States and Israel are imperfect, and like all democracies, at times deserving of critique, but false equivalence give cover to terrorist groups,\u201d they continued. \u201cWe urge Congresswoman Omar to clarify her words placing the U.S. and Israel in the same category as Hamas and the Taliban.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) pledged to strip Rep. 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