U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar leaves Senate after watching failure of competing proposals to end government shutdown.. (photo credit: LEAH MILLIS/REUTERS)
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US Representative Ilhan Omar should be expelled from Congress or censured over her antisemitic moments, US Vice President Mike Pence tweeted on Tuesday night.
Omar’s “tweets were a disgrace [and] her apology was inadequate. Anti-Semitism has no place in the United States Congress, much less the Foreign Affairs Committee.
“Those who engage in anti-Semitic tropes should not just be denounced, they should face consequences for their words,” Pence wrote.
With his tweet, he added his voice to the growing calls for the freshmen democratic congresswoman from Minnesota to be ousted from Congress.
He and others are upset, among other things, over her tweet suggesting that the only reasons US politicians support Israel is that they are paid to do so by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Her words hinted at one of the archetypical antisemitic stereotypes that Jews use money to control the world.
Earlier in the day, US President Donald Trump similarly stated that, “anti-Semitism has no place in the United States Congress. And Congressman Omar is terrible, what she said.
“And I think she should either resign from Congress or she should certainly resign from the House Foreign Affairs Committee,” Trump said.
Omar has since apologized for her statement, explaining that “antisemitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-semitic tropes. My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole. “At the same time, I reaffirm the problematic role fo lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC, the NRA or the fossil fuel industry,” she said.
Trump, like Pence, felt her apology was in inadequate.
“What she said is so deep-seated in her heart that her lame apology — and that’s what it was; it was lame, and she didn’t mean a word of it — was just not appropriate,” Trump stated.
Pence tweeted about Omar prior to his meeting Thursday in Warsaw with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two men are expected to lay a wreath a the monument commemorating the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis during World War II.
Netanyahu is also expected to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday in Warsaw.
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