Kevin McCarthy is saying that if confirmed as Speaker of the House, he is going to take Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) off the House Foreign Affairs Committee due to her many Anti-Semitic remarks over the years.
Democrats will naturally object, but they can’t deny that this is a legitimate criticism of Omar.
FOX News reports:
Kevin McCarthy says he will remove Ilhan Omar from committee assignment over ‘antisemitism’ when speakerHouse Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said on Saturday that when he is speaker of the House next year he plans to remove Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her “antisemitic” comments. “We watch antisemitism grow, not just on our campuses, but we watched it grow In the halls of Congress,” he said at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s 2022 leadership meeting in Las Vegas. “I promised you last year that as speaker she will no longer be on Foreign Affairs, and I’m keeping that promise,” he said to cheers from the audience. McCarthy is the likely next speaker once Republicans take the majority in January, pending a vote for the position on Jan. 3. Republicans will have a slim majority, so he can only afford to lose a handful of votes.Since being elected to Congress in 2018, Omar has made several controversial comments widely deemed to perpetuate antisemitic tropes, including saying it was “all about the Benjamins” for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and tweeting, “We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban,” which was seen as equating Israel and the U.S. to the Taliban.In a tweet before joining Congress, the Democrat claimed Israel had “hypnotized the world” and after being elected she submitted a resolution to the House comparing boycotting Israel to boycotting the Nazis.
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The following footnote has been added to that tweet:
You may recall that in 2019, the Democrat led House was going to formally rebuke Omar for Anti-Semitic comments but ultimately ended up doing a watered down rebuke of hate speech instead.
Politico reported at the time:
House repudiates bigotry after Omar comments split DemsThe House overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning hate speech Thursday, indirectly rebuking Rep. Ilhan Omar’s controversial comments about Israel and ending a days-long political drama that had consumed the Democratic Caucus on the eve of a major legislative victory.The debate over how to respond to Omar’s remarks, which have been criticized as anti-Semitic by some colleagues, had sharply divided the caucus, distracting Democrats from a week intended to be dedicated to their sweeping package of election reforms.One day before that vote, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her top deputies had been forced to personally intervene in the drafting of a symbolic resolution, rather than teeing up the most significant bill of their majority so far.
Removing Omar from the foreign affairs committee will get the approval of Republican voters, but McCarthy shouldn’t be surprised if they demand more like this.
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