(Newsweek) David Harris - Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has a Jewish problem. When 12 Jewish members of Congress, all from her party, were prompted to condemn her comments, calling them "offensive" and "misguided," Omar's spokesman tweeted: "As usual, the far right is ginning up hate against Rep. Omar." The "far right" in this case were Reps. Jake Auchincloss, Ted Deutch, Lois Frankel, Josh Gottheimer, Elaine Luria, Kathy Manning, Jerry Nadler, Dean Phillips, Brad Schneider, Kim Schrier, Brad Sherman, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz - all liberal Democrats. Omar's record of incendiary, anti-Semitic comments - about Israel, the U.S.-Israel relationship, and American supporters of Israel - goes back nearly a decade. Each time, she insists she was misunderstood, though her comments are all a matter of public record. Then, rather than debate the merits of the issue, she and her defenders belittle anyone who would question her as a "right-winger," "racist," "misogynist," or "Islamophobe." The irony in the Omar story is that, if not for a Jewish House member from New York named Emanuel Celler, who as chair of the House Judiciary Committee spearheaded a change in America's immigration policy in 1965, Omar and her family might not have even been admitted to the U.S. The writer is CEO of the American Jewish Committee.
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