House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s failure to address the controversy surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar shows “Democrats are tolerant of anti-Semitism and sympathizing with terrorists.”
“It’s time for the Speaker to act,” McCarthy tweeted Thursday, calling comments Omar recently made “anti-Semitic & anti-American” and “abhorrent.”
“Speaker Pelosi’s continued failure to address the issues in her caucus sends a message to the world that Democrats are tolerant of anti-Semitism and sympathizing with terrorists,” McCarthy added.
Rep. Omar’s anti-Semitic & anti-American comments are abhorrent.
Speaker Pelosi’s continued failure to address the issues in her caucus sends a message to the world that Democrats are tolerant of anti-Semitism and sympathizing with terrorists.
It’s time for the Speaker to act.
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) June 10, 2021
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On Monday, Omar compared “unthinkable atrocities” committed by the United States and Israel to those committed by Hamas, Afghanistan, and the Taliban.
She also accused the U.S. and the other entities of “alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
After backlash from a group of Democratic lawmakers, Omar said it was “shameful” for her fellow Democrats to call her out. She also accused them of using “islamophobic tropes.”
“The islamophobic tropes in this statement are offensive. The constant harassment & silencing from the signers of this letter is unbearable,” she added in the tweet.
Citing an open case against Israel, US, Hamas & Taliban in the ICC isn’t comparison or from “deeply seated prejudice”. You might try to undermine these investigations or deny justice to their victims but history has thought us that the truth can’t be hidden or silenced forever.
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) June 10, 2021
National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Mike Berg said the Democratic letter does not go far enough to criticize Omar and called for her to be stripped of her committee assignments.
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“If Democrats truly cared about Ilhan Omar’s anti-American and anti-Semitic rhetoric, they would immediately take action to remove her from her committee assignments,” Berg said in a statement. “Speaker Pelosi’s silence on Omar’s raging anti-Semitism is downright cowardly.”
Several members of Congress have also echoed these calls over the past couple of days.
Ilhan Omar must be removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She should have never been appointed to this Committee in the first place. https://t.co/NCOuJkhdq6
— Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) June 10, 2021
This is absolutely disgusting from a Member of Congress. I lost two legs and a finger defending the USA and fighting the radical Islamic terrorists that @Ilhan Omar is now defending. She is completely unfit to serve our country.https://t.co/ehGRPXClus
— Rep. Brian Mast (@RepBrianMast) June 8, 2021
Comparing our troops to the Taliban is DISGUSTING! This is one of the MOST un-American things I have EVER read – and it’s coming from a member of Congress nonetheless. Ilhan Omar HATES America, and she’s actively sabotaging the nation that has given her EVERYTHING. https://t.co/jGoGdR6OjV
— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) June 8, 2021
Ilhan Omar, honorary member of Hamas, just compared the US military with the Taliban.
Sadly, it’s not even surprising anymore.
We have terrorist sympathizers in Congress and it is being normalized by the MSM.
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) June 8, 2021
