Opinion: The true danger to the Jews isn’t a few tone-deaf comments, but a political environment in which conspiracy theories reign, writes ElliotSKaufman
To hear Speaker Nancy Pelosi tell it, Rep. Ilhan Omar is a naïf. Nothing the Minnesota freshman has said was “intended in an anti-Semitic way,” Mrs. Pelosi explained last week. She merely “has a different experience in the use of words” and “doesn’t understand that some of them are fraught with meaning.” Yet Ms.
Omar has been consistent not only in attacking the pro-Israel lobby, but in purveying a conspiratorial view of the world. The evidence-free accusation that illegitimate moneyed or foreign interests are corrupting her opponents and dictating U.S. policy is her modus operandi.Following anti-Semitic comments by Rep.
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Opinion | The Ilhan Omar flap reveals Democrats’ great burdenThe party's fresh new perspectives aren't so easy to balance.
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ICE Officials Shared And “Liked” Ilhan Omar And Anti-Immigrant Conspiracy TheoriesOne post discovered by BuzzFeed News described Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar as a “trojan horse” who came to the US because of a “refugee outbreak.”
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Ilhan Omar is reminding House Democrats how hard it is to be in chargeThis week House Democrats took up what may be the most important government-reform effort in decades — H.R. 1 — and buried it under an avalanche of hot takes about anti-Semitism. (via latimesopinion)
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Democrats in presidential race defend Ilhan Omar on remarks critics saw as anti-SemiticDemocratic presidential candidates came to the defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar over remarks that critics saw as anti-Semitic amid a rift within the party over U.S. support of Israel.
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Democrats, divided over Omar, to vote on expanded anti-hate resolutionSpeaker Pelosi on Rep. Omar's comments: 'I don't think that the congresswoman perhaps appreciates the full weight of how it was heard by other people, although I don't believe it was intended in an anti-Semitic way.'
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Democrats set to vote on anti-hate resolution after furor over Ilhan Omar commentsHouse leaders are pushing to vote Thursday on a measure opposing bigotry after some Democrats opposed an earlier resolution to condemn anti-Semitism amid a controversy over remarks by first-year Democrat Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
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House Democrats to call for vote on condemning 'anti-Semitic' Ilhan Omar commentsOmar suggested that the pro-Israel lobby pushes lawmakers to show 'allegiance to a foreign country' and said the charge of anti-Semitism is 'designed to end the debate' about Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
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Ocasio-Cortez defends Omar, criticizes Democrats over anti-Semitism resolution'But incidents like these do beg the question: where are the resolutions against homophobic statements? For anti-blackness? For xenophobia?' Ocasio-Cortez defends Omar, criticizes Democrats over anti-Semitism resolution.
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Analysis | Democrats’ criticism of Ilhan Omar suggests little room for diversity on IsraelAnalysis: Democrats’ criticism of Ilhan Omar suggests little room for diversity on Israel
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Tensions flare as Democrats struggle to respond to Omar controversyHouse Democratic leaders are struggling to contain the controversy over Rep. Ilhan Omar‘s comments criticizing Israel, with the caucus fighting behind closed doors over whether — and how — to respond
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