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Washington Post columnist Philip Bump has become one of those journalists who you can tell wrote an article just from reading a couple of sentences. He hasn’t gone insane like his colleagues Jennifer Rubin and Max Boot, but his takes are still reliably dumb and obvious. Just like this one: If Rep. Ilhan Omar weren’t a practicing Muslim, she would be being targeted by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and booted off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
It is clear that if Ilhan Omar weren't a practicing Muslim, she wouldn't have become a central figure for the right and, therefore, wouldn't have been someone who McCarthy saw value in targeting. https://t.co/K9ybMnlRJ3
— Philip Bump (@pbump) January 30, 2023
“The political targeting of Ilhan Omar is inextricable from her religion.” Then why were Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff booted off their committees?
Your piece fails to cite a single fact that suggests this has to do w/ her religion but at least you got her to RT you so mission accomplished
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 30, 2023
That’s not it. It’s her long track record of bigotry and anti-semitism. I get that you have water to carry for Dems and couldn’t look into that one.
— Taro Tsujimoto (@RCannon74) January 30, 2023
Schiff and Swalwell aren’t Muslim. Your logic is void.
— Radio Free America©️🇺🇸 (@RogerGreeson) January 30, 2023
I agree, if she weren’t Muslim, maybe she wouldn’t be so antisemitic
— johnathan sanders (@johnathan_sand) January 30, 2023
Republicans just nominated a Muslim as their US Senate candidate in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, the state is still too racist and they elected a guy who chases down black joggers with a shotgun instead.
— Rev. Dr. Ashanti Van Buren+ (@AshantiVanBuren) January 30, 2023
Or maybe it’s her long record of bigotry which you completely overlook in this article because it’s inconvenient to your narrative…
No one is kicking Andre Carson off any committees. https://t.co/38YHV6evFz
— AG (@AGHamilton29) January 30, 2023
Her own party was censuring her until Nancy chickened out and broadened the language. Were the Dems also targeting her?
— Ashlee Lee (@ashlee_leeee) January 30, 2023
As Twitchy reported Sunday, Omar went on TV to claim she didn’t know it was an anti-Semitic trope to tweet that Israel had “hypnotized the world” or that support of Israel is “all about the Benjamins.” She’s played dumb for years and the Left has let her get away with it, and Bump knows it.
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Related:Ilhan Omar plays dumb about her anti-Semitic remarks during #CNNSOTU interview and LOL (watch)https://t.co/sBVlB5A1pZ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 29, 2023
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2023/01/30/wapos-philip-bump-says-kevin-mccarthy-is-targeting-ilhan-omar-because-shes-muslim/?bcid=2d45462b63c11a47b6518e7ceeef3cdd4b75806b04812316880fa03d65902987
As long as we're on the topic of IlhanTheTinyTerrorist, here's one more -
Fact Check: Ilhan Omar Claims She Never Compared Israel, US to the Taliban
Ilhan Omar, during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, pleaded ignorance when it came to her history of anti-Semitic comments and flatly denied comparing Israel to the Taliban.
Dana Bash, the show’s host, confronted Omar (D-MN) in noting that she was being considered for removal from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for a history of incendiary statements.
“I’m told that Republicans presented a list in their meeting, in a private meeting, this past week,” Bash said.
She then ticked off several instances of the Democrat lawmaker spreading anti-Semitic tropes and pointed out one of the claims is that she “compared the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban.”
“Yes, I might have used words at the time that I didn’t understand were trafficking in antisemitism,” she explained before adding, “I have never compared or made any comparisons.”
Ilhan Omar Compares US, Israel to Taliban
The comparison Representative Ilhan Omar is clearly referencing involves remarks she directed at Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the ICC in June of 2021.
“We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity,” she said. “We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban.”
Critics were upset by Omar’s comparison and initially, she was defiant over the comments, even accusing Democrat colleagues of engaging in “Islamophobic tropes” and “constant harassment” for daring to speak out against her.
A caucus of a dozen Jewish Democrats condemned Omar’s comments in a statement that pointed out she made a direct comparison.
“Equating the United States and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban is as offensive as it is misguided,” the statement read in part, before accusing the congresswoman of making comments that provide “false equivalence” and “give cover to terrorist groups.”
She would eventually issue a statement to clarify her comments, insisting she wasn’t comparing the US and Israel to the Taliban despite lumping them into the same group of people who have committed “atrocities” and “crimes against humanity.”
“To be clear: the conversation was about accountability for specific incidents regarding those ICC (International Criminal Court) cases, not a moral comparison between Hamas and the Taliban and the U.S. and Israel,” Omar said.
“I was in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries with well-established judicial systems.”
It was a defense she repeated in the “State of the Union” interview.
“What I was referencing was a case that was in front of the ICC,” she said before again accusing critics of bigotry.
“It is politically motivated,” she claimed. “And, in some cases, it’s motivated by the fact that many of these members don’t believe a Muslim, a refugee, an African should even be in Congress, let alone have the opportunity to serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee.”
While Omar has tried to clarify what she allegedly meant to say, the fact is she did make the comparison.
Further, she later told CNN’s Jake Tapper that she does not regret making the comments in the first place.
Therefore, we rate the claim that she never compared Israel or the United States to the Taliban as ‘False.’
Not Her Only Israel Comparison
In addition, that wasn’t the only time Ilhan Omar has made an unfavorable comparison of Israel to terrorist groups or nations that harbor terrorists.
In 2019, she compared Israel to Iran and said the idea that they represent a democracy makes her “chuckle.”
“We still uphold it (Israel) as a democracy in the Middle East I almost chuckle because I know that if we see that any other society we would criticize it, call it out,” said Omar, suggesting the Jewish state does not recognize other religions.
“We do that to Iran, we do that to any other place that sort of upholds its religion,” she continued. “And I see that now happening with Saudi Arabia and so I am aggravated, truly, in those contradictions.”
Omar has a rich history of anti-Semitism that disqualifies her from representing the House on the Foreign Affairs Committee which includes but is not limited to:
- Tweeting “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”
- Said that Jewish lawmakers “have allegiance to a foreign country” regarding their support for Israel.
- Tweeting that US support for Israel was “all about the Benjamins” and when she was asked what she meant, she responded “AIPAC!”
- Asked a judge for compassion for ISIS recruits who were being sentenced for planning to join the terrorist organization.
- Dismissed 9/11 as “some people did something” and allegedly refused to answer if she was “pro-al Qaeda.”
- Shared a cartoon that even her Democrat colleagues called out as “vile” and “anti-Semitic.”
- Defended and promoted the anti-Semitic BDS movement.
- Described acts of terrorism as a reaction to the United States’ “involvement in other people’s affairs.”
She made another ill-advised comparison back in 2019.
A CNN fact-check of whether or not Omar has praised al Qaeda proved she had not, but they concluded: “It is possible to argue … that she was implying that there is an equivalence between al Qaeda and the US army.”
The idea that Omar has “never compared or made any comparisons” of the US or Israel to the Taliban is not correct.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/fact-check-ilhan-omar-claims-she-never-compared-israel-us-to-the-taliban/?source=TPICI
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