Washington – Ilhan Omar, the newly elected congresswoman from Minnesota, said after being elected that she supported the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel, after saying during her campaign that it was “counteractive” and prevents dialogue.
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Omar’s comment came in response to a website called Muslim Girl, which pressed her on her appearance during the campaign at a Minneapolis area synagogue, in which she had said that BDS “stops the dialogue” and is “counteractive” to achieving a two-state outcome.
Like many other Democrats, she noted her opposition to anti-BDS legislation but framed it as a free-speech issue.
“Ilhan believes in and supports the BDS movement, and has fought to make sure people’s right to support it isn’t criminalized,” her campaign told Muslim Girl after the election. “She does, however, have reservations on the effectiveness of the movement in accomplishing a lasting solution.”
TC Jewfolk, the local Jewish news website which originally reported her ostensible rejection of BDS, pressed her on the issue after the Muslim Girl statement in text messages which it posted on Twitter.
Omar insisted there was no contradiction. “I believe and support the BDS movement and have fought to make sure people’s right to support it isn’t criminalized,” she said. “I do, however, have reservations on [the] effectiveness of the movement in accomplishing a lasting solution. Which is what I believe I said at the forum.”
The TC Jewfolk reporter pressed her further, asking Omar why she didn’t simply answer “yes or no” when asked about the issue at the synagogue forum for candidates.
“It was a bigger issue and she didn’t ask for a ‘yes or no’ answer,” Omar replied, referring to the person who posed the question. Omar said her position during the campaign was not “politically expedient.”
Omar is the first Somali and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. The other Muslim woman elected last week, Rashida Tlaib of the Detroit area, also backs BDS.
Shocking, absolutely shocking, I tell you!
A Muslim who supports the other side. As shocking as Trump supporting white nationalism.
Most of the world doesn’t accept our right to Judea and Samaria and some of those people will end up in congresa.
With Gd’s help we survived anti Semite like Pat Buchanan and James Baker in the WH and with His help we’ll survive these two also.
Well well …
Who would have thought ….?
And what is the Chidesh here? She is doing just what all the left wing liberal demorats do, pander to the liberal jews, tell them what they want to hear. Just like Shmuky Shummer. And then the left wing yidden go out and vote for these anti semites.
Anything from Minnesota we can boycott?
and another Soros talmid.
This is not news, Did you ever see a Democrat run a campaign not full of deceptions and lies? It’s in their DNA.
Please Google “Youtube Debate between Jewish professor and Muslim student”.
The letter that was auctioned yesterday written by Albert Einstein in the 1920s had references to the increasing anti-antisemitism and his prediction of dark clouds approaching. This too, is a introduction into what is going to happen in future everywhere in the world, where democratically elected Muslims will be slowly be introducing Sharia law etc into democratic western countries due to their sheer numbers and no-one will be able to do anything about it.. It might take a hundred years but it will be inevitable.
If you dont like Bloomberg this is what you can get. After Nixon we got Jimmy Carter. After Trump we can get like her. Extreme POTUS is followed by extreme Potus.
Parsing language is a political skill, famously taught by a former President defining the word “is”. Not her first half-truth and most certainly will not be her last.
Shocker #1 a Socialist Dem would lie
Shocker # 2 someone running for office would lie
Shocker # 3 A Muslim would lie to a Jewish audience
anyone in St Louis Park who voted for her need professional help
The left-wing Democrats hate Yisrael and Yidden (unless the are radical liberals who just happen to be Jews but do not care about Yisrael or Yidden). Know what you are voting for! Hizahare.
She is a new breed of legally elected anti America, anti Israel domestic terrorists that fools on the far left rejoice in. She and her supporters are the worst our society has allowed to grow and flourish. They are a developing fifth column of infiltrators with our midst. To add to this growing threat are the Jewish pie in the sky kumbaya liberals who are filled with a need to always be PC, even to the point of self destruction.
Any new who supports dems needs his head examined,
I’m in shock it turns out that an anti Israel Jew hater is really an anti Israel Jew hater I didn’t see that one coming who would have thunk