BRANCO ILHAN OMAR

Rep. Omar’s antisemitism doesn’t belong on House Foreign Relations Committee In 2012, she tweeted that “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” In mid-February, Omar created another stir when she tweeted that support for Israel in the US Congress was “all about the Benjamins,” Last Congress, Omar compared the U.S. and Israel to the Taliban, stating: “We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban. I asked @SecBlinken where people are supposed to go for justice.” In a speech that March before the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Omar described the 9/11 attacks perpetrated by al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 American residents, by saying, “Some people did something.”