House Republican Unveils Censure Resolution Against Ilhan Omar After Remark About Some Jewish Students Being … The Daily Wire
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OnTuesday,aHouseRepublicanunveiledacensureresolutionagainstRep.IlhanOmar(D-MN)afterthememberoftheleftist“Squad”suggestedthatsomeJewishstudentsare“pro-genocide.”
Themeasure,introducedbyRep.DonBacon(R-NE),seekstoformallyrebukeOmarforher“recenthatefulcommentsandhistoryofanti-Semitism.”
AleadingprovisionciteswhatOmarsaidaboutanti-SemitismwhilevisitingColumbiaUniversitylastmonthamidanti-IsraelprotestsinresponsetotheIsrael-Hamaswar.InspeakingwithaFox5NewYorkreporter,OmarnotedshehadjustmetsomeJewishstudentsinanencampment.
“Ithinkitisreallyunfortunate,”Omarcontinued,“thatpeopledon’tcareaboutthefactthatallJewishkidsshouldbekeptsafe,andthatweshouldnothavetotolerateanti-SemitismorbigotryforallJewishstudents,whetherthey’repro-genocideoranti-genocide.”
Bacon’sresolutionsaysOmar“hasalonganddemonstratedhistoryofhatefulrhetoricthatplaysintotheworstanti
