A Republican lawmaker seeks to censure radical leftist Rep. Ilhan Omar again after she claimed students backing Israel are promoting genocide.
Rep. Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, is working on a censure resolution because Omar’s “talking about pro-genocide Jewish students is wrong.”
“Folks can protest Israel, but don’t blame Jewish-American students for Israel,” Bacon said. “That is by definition antisemitism. All students deserve [a] safe environment.”
Omar was one of the few Democrats who denounced Hamas early after the terrorist group slaughtered more than 1,200 Jews, including at least 30 Americans.
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“I condemn the horrific acts we are seeing unfold today in Israel against children, women, the elderly, and the unarmed people who are being slaughtered and taken hostage by Hamas,” she said immediately after the Oct. 7 attack.
“Such senseless violence will only repeat the back and forth cycle we’ve seen, which we cannot allow to continue. We need to call for deescalation and ceasefire. I will keep advocating for peace and justice throughout the Middle East.”
But that had changed by last week.
Her daughter, Isra Hirsi, was among the pro-Hamas protesters at Columbia University who were arrested and charged with trespassing. Hirsi was also suspended from Barnard College, which is connected to Columbia.
On April 22, Omar posted on X, “Columbia arrested and suspended its students who were peacefully protesting and have now ignited a nationwide Gaza Solidarity movement.”
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“This is more than the students hoped for, and I am glad to see this type of solidarity. But to be clear, this is about the genocide in Gaza, and the attention has to remain on that.”
Bacon is basing his resolution on comments Omar made last week to local media in New York.
“I actually met a lot of Jewish students that are in the [Columbia] encampment, and I think it is really unfortunate that people don’t care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe,” Omar said.
“We should not have to tolerate antisemitism or bigotry for all Jewish students, whether they are pro-genocide or anti-genocide.”
Republicans removed Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee after regaining control of the House over her past anti-Israel comments, which lawmakers in both parties dubbed anti-Semitic.
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Two months ago, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a censure resolution after comments Omar made at a speech to Somali-Americans in Minneapolis surfaced.
“The U.S. government will only do what Somalis in the U.S. tell them to do,” Omar, als a Somali, said at one point. “They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders, and that is how we will safeguard the interests of Somalia.”
“Sleep in comfort, knowing I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system,” she added. “We, as Somalians, … are Somalians first and Muslims second.”
Omar also famously said of the 9/11 attacks that “some people did something.”
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