Ilhan Omar

The House voted on party lines to oust Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

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Discomfort at the House Republican majority voting to remove Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the powerful foreign affairs committee is bipartisan – but ...

A small group of Republicans had initially objected to the effort, but still voted with the party. [Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/04/marjorie-taylor-greene-congress-democrats-committees) and [Paul Gosar of Arizona](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/17/house-censures-paul-gosar-violent-video-against-aoc) from committees in the last Congress. Is anyone surprised that I am somehow deemed unworthy to speak about American foreign policy? “There is nothing consistent with the Republican party’s continued attack, except for the racism and incitement of violence against women of color in this body. I have said it before, I will say it again: The white supremacy happening is unbelievable. “Is anyone surprised that I am being targeted?

Rep. Ilhan Omar was removed on Thursday from the Foreign Affairs Committee. Congressional Black Caucus members visited the White House while the House ...

Even as that storm comes to an end - the weather service is warning about potentially record-breaking cold expected this weekend in New England and parts of the midwest. is one of six countries in the world that doesn't have a national paid leave policy. And of course, Democrats say that this is just, you know, a reaction to the fact that Democrats removed Marjorie Taylor Green and Paul Gosar from committees in the last Congress. Isn't that crazy, we don't have anything, and it's pretty standard stuff, just six countries in the world, you know, some people will say, oh, the United States is the only developed nation or the only rich nation, but it's really worth emphasizing. NIALA: That's Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House yesterday celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act, which provided workers with unpaid time off to care for themselves or family. Of course, we've been hearing from Republicans for a while now that there are several issues that they were eager to investigate the Biden administration. They've introduced legislation like this in the past though, and it hasn't obviously gone through. Here’s what you need to know today: the state of paid - and unpaid leave for American workers. It has been a busy week where we've seen a lot of the committees really start their investigations in earnest. NIALA: Ilhan Omar is removed from her committee assignments, Congressional Black Caucus members visit the White House and House Republicans kick off their investigation – all part of this first week in February in Washington. Senator Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate has been very vocal this week about how the act as-is is a non-starter. STEF: This has been a very contentious issue, and it was actually unclear whether Republicans had the votes to remove Omar initially, but they did end up having those votes to remove her from the committee.

After Ilhan Omar was elected to Congress in 2018, she explained why one of her first priorities as a member of the US House of Representatives was to serve on ...

Little serious attention was paid to why Omar sought to serve on a committee that many members show little interest in, and why she sought to keep her seat in the face of withering attacks from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and his allies. Despite McCarthy’s very public admission that Omar was being targeted for retribution, Republicans attempted to portray her ouster as a sober and necessary matter. In a statement, J Street, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, the New Israel Fund, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Habonim Dror North America, T’ruah Ameinu, and Americans for Peace Now The Republicans were not about to be shamed into reversing course. [made](https://www.npr.org/2021/02/04/963785609/house-to-vote-on-stripping-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-from-2-key-committees) [remarks](https://www.businessinsider.com/house-votes-censure-paul-gosar-remove-committees-aoc-anime-2021-11) that were considered not just extreme but threatening to fellow House members. “The advancement of that connection gets us closer to the kind of utopian world that I want—have always wanted—to live in, and want for everybody to live in.” “For me, it isn’t just the mere conversations, it’s the kind of connected world that I see, and how—through policy—we can advance that connection or dismantle that connection,” she told me during one of several extended discussions we’ve had over the years about her committee work. Omar will continue to be one of the House’s highest-profile advocates for a just and humane foreign policy. While the Minnesota Democrat was intent on representing her constituents in Minneapolis, and on addressing all the pressing domestic policy concerns that tend to dominate coverage of Congress, At the same time, McCarthy has handed both Greene and Gosar plum committee assignments. But Engel pushed back against the calls to boot her from the committee. There were demands for her removal from the committee.

The House GOP's vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee came hours after Israel launched its latest bombing campaign in the ...

"Israel has long attempted to silence findings of apartheid with targeted smear campaigns, and the international community allows itself to be cowed by these tactics. [noted](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/02/israel-opt-palestinian-lives-in-peril-as-israel-reinforces-apartheid/) earlier this week that Israeli forces killed 35 Palestinians in January alone. [open-air prison](https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/14/gaza-israels-open-air-prison-15)" of Gaza, bombings that came a week after Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians at a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. "The international community's failure to hold Israeli authorities to account for apartheid and other crimes has given them free rein to segregate, control, and oppress Palestinians on a daily basis, and helps perpetuate deadly violence." “Deliberate attacks on civilians are reprehensible crimes," Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement Thursday. Until apartheid is dismantled there is no hope of protecting civilian lives, and no hope of justice for grieving families in Palestine and Israel." Last year was one of the [deadliest in decades](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/29/palestinians-killed-west-bank-israel/) for Palestinians in the occupied territories. "Rep. [condemned](https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/02/02/israel-collective-punishment-against-palestinians) Israel's response as an act of "collective punishment." [argued](https://theintercept.com/2023/02/02/ilhan-omar-kevin-mccarthy-democrats/) Thursday that congressional Democrats "paved the way" for the GOP's attacks on Omar. and Israel. [Human Rights Watch](https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/04/27/abusive-israeli-policies-constitute-crimes-apartheid-persecution) and [Amnesty International](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/), have offered the same assessment of Israel's decades-long occupation and brutalization of Palestinians.

The Republican-controlled House accused the Minnesota Congresswoman of harbouring antisemitic beliefs.

Rep. Democrat Rep. Omar and Rep. Some of Rep. We will put her back on Foreign Affairs Committee in two years when we flip the House. In an impassioned, tearful speech on the House floor, Palestinian-American Democrat Rep. In response to her removal, Rep. She has does a great job representing her constituents, who re-elected her. — Rep. Watch Rep. AOC respond to Republicans' removal of Rep. Representation matters.— Rep.

White House called Somalia-born Congresswoman's removal 'political stunt'. Ilhan Omar has in past accused Biden of being 'reluctant' to criticise Modi ...

“The Indian government must be held responsible for human rights violations against religious and cultural minorities,” she had said. Derek Chollet, then counsellor to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, had clarified that the visit was unofficial and did not represent US foreign policy agenda. “The Squad” initially comprised four minority Congresswomen — Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. In 2018, she became one of the first two Muslim women to be elected to Congress. She and her family fled Somalia, and after taking refuge in Kenya for four years, immigrated to the US in the 1990s. “It’s all about the Benjamin’s baby,” she had tweeted — an apparent reference to $100 bills.

Republicans hope to smear Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar as antisemitic, not to make a statement against hate. To let them do so is a grave moral mistake.

[Jewish space lasers for wildfires](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/04/live-updates-house-to-vote-on-marjorie-taylor-greene-committee-seats/4383759001/), and likened wearing a mask to [donning a yellow Jewish star](https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/marjorie-taylor-greene-compares-mask-mandate-to-holocaust-era-gold-star-668816). [both sides of the aisle](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/17/ilhan-omar-tweet-controversy/2603030002/). Omar [then apologized.](https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2019/02/12/rep-ilhan-omar-apologizes-tweet-house-leaders-called-anti-semitic/2843491002/) George Santos, [who falsely claimed to be Jewish](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/27/george-santos-recognizes-auschwitz-anniversary-after-religion-lies/11134472002/) and the descendent of Holocaust survivors at that, has failed to be disavowed by McCarthy himself. So when Republicans rise to the pulpit and pontificate on the ‘power of rhetoric’ using it as a cudgel to force Omar out of important government business, we can object. [Marjorie Taylor Greene](https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/01/17/marjorie-taylor-greene-paul-gosar-committee-assignment-house/11070292002/) and Paul Gosar from their committees. She herself has been the target of highly offensive, ethnically motivated attacks from Republican leaders. In that vein, I ask who among us has not been unintentionally clumsy with a culture that is not our own, perhaps unaware of its pain points. The edges can be easily blurred giving rise to confusion and even legitimate debate. To let them do so is a grave moral mistake. They needed something to blame, and I am begging American Jews, don’t let them use us. The world moved on: So, why haven’t the Republicans?

The House of Representatives voted 218-211 on Thursday to kick Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., off the Foreign Affairs Committee. Why?

(This [squelching of open debate](https://theintercept.com/2020/07/18/political-correctness-destroying-america/) is naturally led by those who proclaim their vociferous opposition to cancel culture and political correctness.) Pressley is from the far-away foreign land of Cincinnati. circles to point out the existence and motivation of the Israel lobby — because you can get called antisemitic for noting that Boeing You cannot suggest, [as Omar did](https://theintercept.com/2021/06/24/ilhan-omar-moral-equivalence-reagan/), that the U.S. On the other hand, antisemitism is perfectly fine with the GOP, as illustrated by (among [endless](https://theintercept.com/2019/04/07/unlike-ilhan-omar-donald-trump-accuse-american-jews-dual-loyalty-israel/) other [examples](https://theintercept.com/2019/02/15/ilhan-omar-aipac-republicans-anti-semitism/)) its reaction to former President Donald Trump hosting a chummy dinner with Nick Fuentes and Kanye West. So the right has an especially terrifying brand of venom reserved for someone like Omar. The pullulating hate that Trump demonstrated in 2019 toward her — and Ocasio-Cortez; Rep. … This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America.” In the confused minds of the right-wing base, it can be all of these at once, with Jewish Unionized Gay Communist Lizards controlling all unseen. The Jews are a perennial favorite, but it can also be unions, or the gays, or the international communist conspiracy, or the space lizards wearing ultrarealistic human masks. The GOP’s stated rationale is obvious nonsense. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said, “One of the things that we should talk about here is …