“We welcome the clarification by Congresswoman Omar that there is no moral equivalency between the U.S. and Israel and terrorist groups like Hamas and the Taliban “foments prejudice and undermines progress toward a future of peace and security for all.” Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of House Democratic leadership put out a joint statement Thursday afternoon saying that drawing any comparison between the U.S. Her questions to Blinken however didn’t use the same language as her tweet, which included a video from the hearing. “I was in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries with well-established judicial systems,” Omar said. Omar later put out a statement saying she was referring to questions during a House Foreign Affairs hearing she put to Secretary of State Antony Blinken about International Criminal Court investigations “not a moral comparison between Hamas and the Taliban and the U.S. Her spokesman, Jeremy Slevin, blamed far-right Republicans and even Democratic colleagues for “ginning up hate” against Omar. “The constant harassment & silencing from the signers of this letter is unbearable.” “The Islamophobic tropes in this statement are offensive,” Omar, a Muslim, said in the tweet. Omar was initially defiant, tweeting Thursday in response to their statement that it was “shameful for colleagues” to criticize her without reaching out to her first. Representative Bradley Schneider of Illinois and 11 other Democrats called the statement “as offensive as it is misguided,” and said such “false equivalencies give cover to terrorist groups.” US Representative Ilhan Omar (Reuters File Photo)Ī dozen of Omar’s fellow House Democrats denounced Monday’s tweet in which she said there were “unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban.” and Israel with the Taliban and Hamas that drew condemnation from some Democrats as well as Republicans. Representative Ilhan Omar tried to head off a growing furor over a tweet suggesting she equated the U.S.
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