© Stefani Reynolds
The civil war for the soul of the Democratic Party took a disturbing turn last week. Representative Ilhan Omar, a progressive Democratic freshman from Minnesota, came under intense scrutiny for a series of anti-Semitic comments and tweets. Arguably her most outrageous statement, and the one that has prompted such strong public backlash, was her insinuation that pro-Israel groups are pushing an “allegiance to a foreign country.”
These comments do not stand as an isolated incidence of anti-Israel or anti-Semitic rhetoric from Omar. She recently tweeted veiled remarks that the pro-Israel group American Israel Public Affairs Committee was buying off politicians in the United States, and even made a statement in 2012 that Israel has “hypnotized the world.” To be sure, her comments are not merely the remarks of a junior representative in Congress who has not “understood the full weight of her words,” as Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
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