Don Bacon to Introduce Resolution to Censure Ilhan Omar
Ms. Omar, who has represented Minnesota’s fifth Congressional District since January 2019, has a historical past of anti-Semitism—which the decision covers.
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) introduced on Could 7 that he’ll introduce a decision to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) over current remarks calling some Jewish college students “pro-genocide.”
The decision, obtained by The Epoch Occasions, just isn’t privileged and won’t pressure a Home vote.
Whether or not Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will put the decision to a vote is to be decided.
The Epoch Occasions has reached out to Mr. Johnson’s workplace.
The measure goals at inflammatory feedback made by Ms. Omar, a progressive who has represented Minnesota’s fifth Congressional District since January 2019, who has drawn scrutiny over time for remarks described as anti-Semitic.
On April 26, throughout a go to to a pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia College, which her daughter attends, Ms. Omar stated: “We must always not must tolerate anti-Semitism or bigotry for all Jewish college students, whether or not they’re pro-genocide or anti-genocide.”
Mr. Bacon’s decision alleges that Ms. Omar’s “slanderous feedback towards Jewish college students might inflame violence towards the Jewish group.”
The decision, it states, is supposed to censure Ms. Omar “for her feedback focusing on Jewish college students in the USA.”
The Epoch Occasions has reached out to Ms. Omar’s workplace for touch upon the decision.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) launched a decision in February to censure Ms. Omar for allegedly pledging her allegiance to Somalia in a current speech, though the preliminary translation of the speech has been disputed.
In 2019, Ms. Omar posted in a now-deleted tweet that U.S. lawmaker help for Israel is “all concerning the Benjamins, child,” evoking an anti-Semitic trope that Israel pays lawmakers to help the Jewish state. She later apologized.
In June 2021, Ms. Omar appeared to equate the USA and Israel to the Taliban and Hamas, the latter of which is a U.S.-designated terrorist group.
“We will need to have the identical degree of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes towards humanity. We’ve got seen unthinkable atrocities dedicated by the USA, Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban,” Ms. Omar posted on X.
She subsequently sought to make clear her tweet, saying the remarks had been about “accountability for particular incidents relating to these [International Criminal Court] investigations instances, not an ethical comparability between Hamas and the Taliban and the U.S. and Israel.”
In response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist assault on Israel, ensuing within the largest single-day bloodbath of Jews for the reason that Holocaust, Ms. Omar referred to as for an finish to U.S. navy help to Israel, which totals $3.8 billion yearly. Of that, $3.3 billion is navy assist.