Demanding that Facebook remove an ad from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee [AIPAC], 38-year-old Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) doesn’t like being exposed for her blatant anti-Semitic rhetoric since entering Congress Jan. 3, 2010. Omar joined the squad, led by 32-year-old Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), 44-year-old Rep. Rashida Tlaib and 47-year-old Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), all have something in common, their contempt fors Israel. When the latest skirmish between Hamas and Israel broke out May 10, the squad immediately blamed Israel, despite the fact that Hamas started firing rockets indiscriminately into Israel. Hamas blamed its latest attack on a real estate dispute in East Jerusalem where an Israeli court ordered the evictions of Palestinian tenants. Hamas claimed that they didn’t want Israeli police entering Al Aqsa mosque compound.
Whatever Hamas’s latest excuse for shooting rockets at Israel, Omar, Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley immediately blamed Israel, essentially repeating Hamas talking points that Israel has no right to exist because when they were founded in 1948 they illegally seized Palestinian land. Hamas was founded in 1987 by blind, paraplegic Sheikh Ahmed Nassin to destroy Israel. Omar and the squad know that Hamas has never changed its charter of pushing Israel into the sea. Yet Omar claims that an AIPAC ad that says she supports Hamas endangers her life. “When Israel targets Hamas, Rep. Omar calls it an act of terrorism,” picturing Omar next to Hamas rockets. Omar objects because she says he objects to the Israeli bombing of Gaza because it kills innocent civilians. Omar blames AIPAC’s Facebook ads for causing death threats against her, not her public remarks.
Omar wants to blame AIPAC and Facebook but she knows that her hate speech against Israel stands on its own. When you consider Israel has been a stalwart U.S. ally since 1948, providing the U.S. seamless access to military installations, it’s beyond irresponsible for any member of Congress to side with a known terror organization. Since electing 78-year-old Joe Biden, the Democrat Party’s radical fringe of Marxists like the squad have been pushing a leftist agenda. With a ceasefire in hand, the squad will soon pivot to other equally erratic causes, like pushing Black Lives Matter’s agenda for $15 trillion in reparations for African Americans. Denouncing Israel and backing Hamas’s radical agenda shows for all to see the anti-American agenda of the Democrat far left. Omar complains about an innocuous ad from the AIPAC on Facebook saying she backs Hamas.
Omar’s office wants the Facebook ad fact-checked, claiming Facebook doesn’t do enough to protect women of color. But the AIPAC or Facebook don’t tell Omar and other members of the squad what to say in public. Whatever AIPAC ads says, it’s far more understated than the rhetoric spewed by Omar and members of the squad. “We are deeply concerned that Feacebook would continue to profit off this hate,” Omar’s office said in an email exchange. Nothing in the ad comes close to Omar’s anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements, far more aligned with the racist comments of demagogues like 88-year-old National of Islam chief Rev. Louis Farrakhan who frequently makes incendiary comments about Jews. Democrat lawmakers have a real problem with Omar and the squad that routinely make hateful statements about Israel and other Jewish groups.
Omar’s spokeswoman Deputy Communication Director Isi Bsehr-Breen called AIPAC’s Facebook ad “anti-Muslim speech,” turning the actual situation on its head. It’s Omar’s anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric that she won’t own, now dealing with fallout from her own hateful rhetoric. Omar can’t reconcile that she deeply offends her Democrat colleagues, like73-year-old House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), 60-year-old House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and 70-year-old Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), all of whom are deeply offended by Omar’s abrasive rhetoric toward Jews. Omar doesn’t live in Somalia where anti-Semitic rhetoric is ingrained in all its citizens. Mainstream Democrats haven’t figured out how to deal with the Partys radical fringe spewing anti-Semitic hate speech.
AIPAC pushed backed at Omar’s nonsense that the Facebook ad distorted her views toward Israel and Jews. “The ad concerning Representative Omar is completely fair and accurate,” said AIPAC spokesman Marshall Sittmann. “It is not a personal attack but highlights her outrageous characterization of Israel’s efforts at self-defense ‘s ‘terrorism.’ Israel targets Hamas terrorists, not civilians.” Omar’s anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hate speech came back to bite her, not realizing that she’s not an assimilated American. At one point, Omar took and loyalty oath at a citizenship or swearing in ceremony. Omar lets her Muslim faith interfere with her citizenship or swearing in oath. She clearly holds sympathies for struggling Islamic citizens overseas, whether in Somalia or the Palestinian territories. Omar, and other members of the squad, have dual loyalties.
