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Front Page Magazine
6 Feb 2023
The House Republican majority approved a resolution on February 2nd to remove Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a member of the progressive “Squad,” from the House Foreign Affairs Committee because of her pattern of outrageous anti-Semitic remarks.
Rep. Omar has accused Jewish-American advocates of Israel of using “Benjamins” (i.e., money) to buy politicians’ support for the Jewish state. On another occasion, she raised the supposed threat of American Jews’ dual loyalty when she said, “I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country.” These are age-old anti-Semitic tropes.
Rep. Omar has regularly demonized and sought to delegitimize Israel, accusing Israel of “evil doings” and “apartheid,” for example. She supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, which discriminates against the Jewish state. These are also hallmarks of Omar’s anti-Semitism.
Omar lumped the United States and Israel together with the terrorist organizations Hamas and the Taliban, while excusing some acts of Islamist terrorism as the “byproducts of the actions of our involvement in other people’s affairs.” She made light of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people, by saying that “some people did something.”
Even some congressional Democrats have expressed concerns about Rep. Omar’s blatantly anti-Semitic remarks. But the Democrats imposed no consequences, despite throwing two Republicans off all House committees when the Democrats controlled the House.
The House Republican majority decided that Omar had no place on “a panel that is viewed by nations around the world as speaking for Congress on matters of international importance and national security,” as the removal resolution stated.
“How can someone not welcomed by one of our most important allies serve as an emissary of American foreign policy on the Foreign Affairs Committee?” Republican Ohio Rep. Max Miller, who authored the removal resolution, asked the House rhetorically. “And given her biased comments against Israel and against the Jewish people, how can she serve as an objective decision-maker on the committee?”
As expected, poor Omar played the wearisome victimhood card, complaining that she was being targeted as a Muslim, an immigrant, and a person of color.
Rep. Omar claimed that Republican House members “don’t believe a Muslim, a refugee, an African should even be in Congress, let alone have the opportunity to serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee” during a CNN interview on January 29th. And she doubled down on the day of the vote to oust her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
“There is this idea that you are a suspect if you are an immigrant, or if you are from certain parts of the world or a certain skin tone, or a Muslim. It is no accident that members of the Republican Party accused the first black president, Barack Obama, of being a secret Muslim,” Rep. Omar said on the House floor. “Well, I am Muslim,” she added. “I am an immigrant, and interestingly, from Africa. Is anyone surprised that I am being targeted? Is anyone surprised that I am somehow deemed unworthy to speak about American foreign policy? Or that they see me as a powerful voice that needs to be silenced?”
Rep. Omar’s “Squad” comrades rallied to her defense. They put on quite a show of self-righteous indignation, anger, and crocodile tears. They have no shame.
New York’s Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused House Republicans of “racism” and “targeting women of color.”
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) complained that “Republicans are waging a blatantly Islamophobic and racist attack against Congresswoman Omar.” She added, “I have said it before, I will say it again: The white supremacy happening is unbelievable.”
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said about Rep. Omar: “No matter how embattled, no matter how racially profiled, no matter how targeted, she has pressed on for peace.”
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) wailed, “I am so sorry, sis, that our country is failing you today. The GOP is now doing what it is best at, weaponizing hate against a black, beautiful, Muslim woman.”
The left-wing media also chimed in. For example, Philip Bump, a columnist for the Washington Post, claimed that Rep. Omar was targeted because of her Muslim religion. “Propelled in part by Trump’s commentary and heavily by perceptions about her religion, Omar became a representative example of the right’s framing of their opponents as hard-left, anti-Israel and anti-American,” Bump wrote.
A USA Today columnist accused Republicans of using Jews offended by Omar’s widely denounced remarks as “a convenient excuse to justify their own brand of hate” and “as a cudgel to force Omar out of important government business.”
The USA Today columnist, a self-proclaimed Jew named Anna Kaufman, said that she was not personally offended by Omar’s anti-Semitic remarks. And Kaufman made excuses for Omar.
“I ask who among us has not been unintentionally clumsy with a culture that is not our own, perhaps unaware of its pain points,” Kaufman wrote, pitifully mimicking one of Omar’s own defenses of her behavior. And, in any case, “the important part is that she apologized.”
The Republicans’ “disavowal of hate” was all an “act,” Kaufman charged. “They don’t care about antisemitism just as they don’t care about other strains of religious and ethnic hate, whether it be anti-Muslim bias or the callous treatment of migrants from Central and South America.”
MSNBC’s Joy Reid characterized the Republicans’ vote to remove Rep. Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee as “the latest step in the GOP’s vindictive, racist targeting of one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress in U.S. history.”
The Left are firm believers in Vladimir Lenin’s famous motto: “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
Every person or organization whom leftists abhor is racist, sexist, xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, or some intersectional combination of the foregoing. The Left believe that repeating these slurs often enough against their enemies will convince enough people that the slurs are true.
Thus, it is no surprise that the lying Left have operated from the same playbook to hurl barrages of invective against Speaker McCarthy and the House Republican majority who have seen through Rep. Omar’s façade to her anti-Semitic core.
Rep. Omar was not removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee because she is a Muslim, an immigrant from Africa, or a person of color. Rep. Omar’s removal from this one committee was a perfectly valid response to her own pattern of anti-Semitism, which should not be given a platform on the House’s most important committee dealing with sensitive foreign relations matters. Omar is still serving on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and is free to serve on other committees to which she is assigned by her Democrat caucus.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy also refused to reappoint two white Democrats, Reps. Adam Schiff (who is Jewish) and Eric Swalwell, to another committee with highly sensitive responsibilities – the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Meanwhile, Democrat Rep. André Carson of Indiana, who is both black and a Muslim, remains a member of this committee.
If the House Republican majority under Speaker McCarthy’s leadership is as racist and Islamophobic as the Democrat critics and the left-wing media suggest, then why did Speaker McCarthy block Schiff’s and Swalwell’s reappointment but not Rep. Carson’s reappointment?
The answer is that there was good cause for Speaker McCarthy to keep both Reps. Schiff and Swalwell off the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Their grossly irresponsible behavior disqualified them from membership on a committee dealing with the nation’s most sensitive national security information. But Rep. Carson has done nothing wrong that deserves removal from the committee.
Schiff abused his position of authority when he was the ranking member and then chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He is reported to have selectively leaked classified information and to have repeatedly lied to the American people about matters under his committee’s purview. Swalwell raised serious security concerns stemming from his close relationship with a suspected female Chinese spy while he was serving on the same committee.
Obviously, race and religion did not factor at all into the speaker’s decision to block the reappointment of Reps. Schiff and Swalwell to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence while preserving Rep. Carson’s seat on the committee.
The same is true regarding the resolution ousting Rep. Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The Democrats who have accused House Republicans of racism against a woman of color for removing Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee are knowingly misleading the American people.
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a Democrat who is black and whose parents were from Haiti, is still serving on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. If House Republicans are so motivated by racism and so intent on targeting a woman of color, why wasn’t this first-term Haitian American woman of color booted off the House Foreign Affairs Committee along with Omar?
In short, the Democrats and their friends in the left-wing media are blowing smoke. They are also a bunch of hypocrites.
When the Democrats controlled the House under former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s iron rule, they stripped two Republicans of all their committee assignments. Pelosi also arbitrarily rejected two of then-House Minority Leader McCarthy’s selections to serve on the bogus select committee to “investigate” the January 6th U.S. Capitol riot. This was the first time a speaker had rejected members selected by the minority party to serve on a select committee.
The Democrats set these precedents when they were in power. Now they are whining when the tables are turned.
“Once you set the precedent, and we warned them about that, it’s likely to happen in reverse,” said Oklahoma Republican Rep. Tom Cole, chairman of the House Rules Committee. “This is something that Democrats, in my view, brought on themselves.”
Turnabout is fair play.