Ilhan Omar's "Tropes" Are True

Source: The Unz Review

Kevin Barrett • March 5, 2019 • 2 Comments

Some people just can't handle the truth. Case in point: America's Jewish Establishment and the Shabbat goys on their payroll, who are all squealing like stuck pigs in response to Rep. Ilhan Omar's pointed remarks about Jewish-Zionist power.

I wrote about Rep. Omar's first (February 10) Twitter outrage in the new issue of Crescent Magazine:

Ilhan Omar's 'all about the Benjamins' tweet, and the media feeding frenzy that followed, unleashed an unprecedented exposé of Jewish-Zionist money power in America. ("Benjamins" refers to $100 bills; Omar borrowed the line from a hip-hop song by Puff Daddy — which raises questions about her musical and cultural tastes). In the past, the entire America Left, led by people like Noam Chomsky, has denied the power of the Israel Lobby. Anyone who pointed out that Israel runs America's Mideast policy through its Fifth Column, using its monstrous money power, was denounced with the obligatory nonsensical slur "anti-Semite." Even Walt and Mearsheimer's understated The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy (2007) was vilified and marginalized.

But in the wake of Ilhan Omar's tweet, many voices that would normally denounce "anti-Semitism" have instead admitted that Omar is right: AIPAC’s power really is "all about the Benjamins." The Nation, America's leading Establishment Left magazine, published Israeli Jew Ady Barkan's confession "What Ilhan Omar Said About AIPAC Was Right." The Jewish Daily Forward responded with Peter Feld's "No, Ilhan Omar Is Not Anti-Semitic For Calling Out AIPAC." Feld put it bluntly, "There are plenty of Jews, like me, whose beliefs are voiced by Omar, not AIPAC." Mehdi Hasan of The Intercept summed it all up, "There Is a Taboo Against Criticizing AIPAC and Ilhan Omar Just Destroyed It."

On the other side of the political divide, Donald Trump called on Omar to resign. Good luck with that one, Donnie! Most Republicans, and quite a few Democrats, ritually waxed indignant in an effort to please their Zionist paymasters — ironically proving that Omar's tweet was accurate. Rarely has the saying "if you're catching flak, you're over the target" been better illustrated.

Rep. Omar quickly issued the most equivocal "unequivocal apology" ever, in essence saying that she didn’t mean to hurt people's feelings, but was right to call out AIPAC and its money power. That didn’t satisfy the Zionists—who paid their propagandists to dog whistle up a lynch mob on various pseudo-patriotic and/or pseudo-alternative Israeli-operated platforms including Murdoch's Fox, made-in-Israel Breitbart, and the Bronfman crime family linked Infowars.

Listening and learning, but standing strong 💪🏽 pic.twitter.com/7TSroSf8h1

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) February 11, 2019

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Source: Washington Examiner

Ilhan Omar amplifies Israel dual loyalty charge, dismissing Democratic rebukes

by Joel Gehrke | March 03, 2019 

Rep. Ilhan Omar has intensified her claims that some Jewish lawmakers have a dual loyalty to Israel, rejecting criticism from Democratic colleagues that she is engaging in anti-Semitism.

"I should not be expected to have allegiance/pledge support to a foreign country in order to serve my country in Congress or serve on committee," Omar tweeted Sunday afternoon. "I am told everyday that I am anti-American if I am not pro-Israel. I find that to be problematic and I am not alone. I just happen to be willing to speak up on it and open myself to attacks."

Omar, an aggressive first-term Democrat hoping to bring left-wing views to the Foreign Affairs Committee, has drawn rebukes from Democratic leaders after her comments about the U.S.-Israel alliance. Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel, who is Jewish, urged her on Friday to apologize for suggesting that Israel supporters “push for allegiance to a foreign country," a claim that he dubbed "a vile anti-Semitic slur."

[Opinion: The Ilhan Omar train wreck gets even worse]

The criticism was stepped up Saturday, when the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee issued her own condemnation.

"Lawmakers must be able to debate [without] prejudice or bigotry," Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., tweeted. “I am saddened that Rep. Omar continues to mischaracterize support for Israel. I urge her to retract this statement and engage in further dialogue with the Jewish community on why these comments are so hurtful."

Omar replied to Lowey in a series of tweets. "Our democracy is built on debate, Congresswoman!" she wrote. "I have not mischaracterized our relationship with Israel, I have questioned it and that has been clear from my end."

Lowey dismissed Omar's defense of herself. "No member of Congress is asked to swear allegiance to another country," she replied in another pair of tweets. "Throughout history, Jews have been accused of dual loyalty, leading to discrimination and violence, which is why these accusations are so hurtful. I believe we can debate important policy without using offensive, painful stereotypes."

The controversy arose from a discussion between Omar and other Democratic lawmakers at a bookstore cafe in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night. She worried aloud that her religious affiliation would make it easier for critics to dismiss her objections to U.S. support for the Israeli government, but added that she wants "to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK to push for allegiance to a foreign country."

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Source: Politico

House Dems will take floor action to confront Omar's latest Israel comments

The freshman Democrat is clashing with senior lawmakers who view her remarks as anti-Semitic.

By SARAH FERRIS, HEATHER CAYGLE and JOHN BRESNAHAN • 03/04/2019 12:50 PM EST

Members of the Democratic caucus spent the weekend privately debating how to handle Rep. Ilhan Omar's latest controversy involving accusations of anti-Semitism. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats will take floor action Wednesday in response to controversial remarks by Rep. Ilhan Omar about Israel, the second such rebuke of the freshman Democrat from party leaders in recent weeks.

Pelosi and other senior Democrats have drafted a resolution to address the controversy, which ballooned over the weekend following a public clash between Omar and senior Jewish lawmakers.

The resolution, which began circulating to members Monday night, comes after a backlash from top Democrats who accused Omar of anti-Semitism for referring to pro-Israel advocates' "allegiance to a foreign country."

The draft measure is four pages that largely details the history and recent rise of anti-Semitism in the U.S. but does not specifically name Omar, which had been an internal dispute among Democrats.

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