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March 8, 2019       Share:    

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-07/ilhan-omar-s-anti-semitic-oratory-hurts-the-palestinian-cause

Ilhan Omar Is Hurting the Palestinian Cause

(Bloomberg) Hussein Ibish - Palestinians will not benefit from the controversy resulting from Rep. Ilhan Omar's repeated use of familiar anti-Semitic themes. If Ms. Omar wants to support Palestinians, there's no end to the urgent tasks she could champion as Palestinians are enduring a crisis in relations with the U.S. Omar's rhetoric is a disaster that reinforces divisive stereotypes about supposed Muslim hostility to Jews. As someone who has spent more than 20 years in Washington working on Arab and Muslim-American problems and championing the Palestinian cause, I implore Omar to learn more about the issues at stake. In the meantime, I have one thing to say to her: Please, just stop it! The writer is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.

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