I am told every day that I am anti-American if I am anti- Israel, Omar tweeted last week, touching off the firestorm after adding that she should not be expected to have pledge support to foreign country order to serve my country Congress or serve on committee... This did not stop the Lobby from..…
That was the message of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in their defenses of Omar,” said Jeff Cohen, co-founder of RootsAction.org. “Let’s hope the resistance to the original resolution marks a turning point in Congress’ blind support for Israel’s subjugation of..…
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the Palestinian- American elected to Congress and Ilhan Omar, the Somali- American and the Muslim- American woman elected to Congress.. Tlaib and Omar, in particular, brought revolutionary approach to the issue of Israel-Palestine. ..…
is she first Muslim refugee to be elected to Congress, and with her hijab proudly on display in Capitol under Islamophobic administration, she is the embodiment of resisting bigotry.. Omar and Women's March Inc co-chairs are progressive figures who entered the national stage, symbolizing..…
Organizations such as the Zionist Organization of America and the Endowment for Middle East Truth have taken their condemnations one step further in calling for Omar to be removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee. Members of Congress such as Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Dan..…
To be clear, nobody has asked Omar or anyone else in Congress to “swear allegiance” to Israel or any other foreign country. ... For Omar, people in Congress or in the U.S. who support Israel are different than those who support Japan, Kenya, Ireland, etc. ..…
The resolution passed in the chamber of Congress on Thursday overwhelmingly, 407 to 23, with all Democrats voting favor including Representative Ilhan Omar, .. ... The resolution was pushed by Zionist organizations and some Jewish members of Congress to rebuke Omar for..…
Party leaders had morphed into divisive and biased sanction against Omar who is naturalized citizen after entering U.S as refugee from Somalia and is one of two of Muslim women elected to Congress. Senators Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand all released..…
The vote came less than a week after Representative Ilhan Omar, one of the two first Muslim women elected to Congress, made statements at a Washington event that were denounced by some as anti-Semitic. . The resolution does not mention Omar by name. But Republicans have seized on..…