WASHINGTON (JNS) – The Coalition for Jewish Values said in a statement on Monday that the promotion of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to a senior position on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee shows that Congress appears to accept anti-Semitism within its midst.
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Omar, who has a history of making anti-Semitic remarks and displaying bias against Israel, was promoted to the position of vice chair of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Global Human Rights on Feb. 11.
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Israel regional vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), called Omar’s new appointment “both risible and dangerous.”
“Ilhan Omar’s long-standing hatred for Israel and contempt for Jews and for America make this a mockery of human-rights advocacy,” he said. “I have little doubt that she will abuse the framework of ‘human rights’ to further her campaign to demonize the Jewish state, as the U.N. Human Rights Council does on an annual basis. Rep. Omar should have been stripped of her committee assignments rather than rewarded with a promotion.”
CJV president Rabbi Pesach Lerner said “the real concern is that House Democrats are treating anti-Semitism as a political weapon, abetted by the silence and even backing of Democratic Jewish members.”
The Zionist Organization of America also criticized Omar’s “outrageous” promotion and reiterated its calls to remove the politician from the Foreign Affairs Committee.
“Omar should certainly not be elevated to her new leadership position, which will give her an even bigger platform for spewing her hateful anti-Semitism, Israel-bashing and promotion of boycotts against the Middle East’s only human-rights-loving democracy, Israel,” said ZOA national president Mort Klein and chair Mark Levenson. “Elevating Omar to a position overseeing ‘global human rights’ is a dangerous travesty that will help to mainstream and legitimize Israel-hatred and Jew-hatred.”
Democrats support Jew haters and terrorists supporters, especially if they are muslim or minorities.
Has the USA already forgotten 9/11?
Thank you Pelosi, Schumer and the rest of the gang for promoting Omar. As always, you have shown your true, abiding friendship to Israel and to your Jewish constituents. And we will always treasure this moment.
Sincerely yours,
A loyal Jewish constituent of the Democrats in Congress
Democrats are the party of Jew haters and terrorist supporters.
Charedi jews for biden harris likes her tichel
Where is Aipac oh right they are a hand of the Democratic party. Even adelson gave up the patronage/hack mill Aipac with their half million salaries. Never give aipac a dime unless you are border j street
America is gone to the dogs, but even the dogs won’t get near something a bad smelling as this
As long as the Democrats are in power, the Jews will never be ok.
I am saddened by some of the comments dealing with article.
Rep. Ilhan Omar is a is duly elective member of the US House of Representatives. If the citizens of her district wish to, they will elect another person.
I myself, support her because is not afraid to speak her mind.
By the way, if this was a Jewish representative challenging what Israel does, would that be okay?
Only the beginning of the Biden/Harris yrs
All Jews need to unite against this Anti Israel, Anti Jewish so called representative of the United States of America.. Her attitude has to be challenged on every level so as to keep Israel safe from her vitriolic rhetoric.
And where were the condemnations when Donald Trump hailed the Nazis after Charlottesville?. Or when he employed antisemites and selfhating Jews as advisors?
Why wouldn’t (so called) rabbinic organizations just stay away of politics once and for all….
Does anyone in their right mind think that these (barking) comments does any good do Yidden??