“She obviously has to come to grips with the fact that when you are here, you’re on a broader stage and things you say resonate far beyond your local community,» Democrat Gerry Connolly said of his
As the House prepares to vote on a resolution to rebuke alleged anti-Semitic comments made by freshman Democrat Ilhan Omar for the second time since taking office, a colleague on the Foreign Affairs Committee warns a third strike could be the tip of the ice berg for Omar keeping her committee seat.
“At some point, her colleagues—if she won’t—are going to have to look at other options,” Democrat Gerry Connolly, who sits on Foreign Affairs with Omar, told Newsweek .
The freshman congresswoman from Minnesota, who is one of two Muslim women in Congress, has found herself once again immersed in condemnation —even from her fellow Democrats—after an alleged anti-Semitic remark last week saying Israeli special interest groups “push for allegiance to a foreign country.” And last month, Democratic leadership condemned her comments on Israeli support being linked to Jewish lobbying efforts buying lawmakers’ support. “It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” she tweeted.
This time around, rather than simple condemnation, the House will vote on a formal resolution. Although not mentioning her by name in the bill’s text, the non-binding measure says it “[rejects] anti-Semitism as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values that define the people of the United States.”
A Democratic aide told Newsweek Tuesday evening the scheduled vote would likely be pushed back from Wednesday to Thursday because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told other lawmakers it will be updated to include text condemning «anti-Muslim bias.»
An anti-Muslim poster showing Omar’s picture beneath the September 11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers was posted in the West Virginia state legislature last week.
“I think it’s a pretty powerful message from the leadership to have condemned her once and now formally bringing a resolution to the floor of the House—and she’s been here two months.
