The House of Representatives votes Wednesday on a resolution that’s billed as a slap at Rep. Ilhan Omar over her persistent anti-Semitic remarks — but it doesn’t even mention her.
Drafted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the help of New York’s own Eliot Engel and Jerry Nadler, the measure merely denounces a host of anti-Semitic tropes, such as “the myth of dual loyalty, including all allegations that Jews should be suspected of being disloyal neighbors or citizens.”
This, after Omar in a DC speech last week insisted on her right to “talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country.”
She plainly meant that Israel supporters are more loyal to the Jewish state than to America. And even as criticism rose over the weekend, she doubled down with similar claims.
This is at least the third time Omar’s trafficked in this filth in just her first two months in Congress. Clearly, her earlier apologies were insincere.
She’s not just criticizing US policy on Israel, as she claims: She’s smearing those who disagree with her as either Jews who put Israel first, or others in the pay (or under the mind control) of the Jewish lobby.
Pelosi & Co. won’t get her to stop with their “educational” resolution. In the end, they’re going to have to take a stand against not just anti-Semitism, but their colleague who wallows in it.