Far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) refused to sentence the killings of two Israeli Embassy staffers outdoors the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, ducking reporters’ questions.
“I’m going to go for now,” the controversial Somali American congresswoman stated Thursday to reporters asking for her response to the slayings of Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, who had been set to be engaged subsequent week.
The couple had been attending an American Jewish Committee’s ACCESS Younger Diplomats Reception after they had been brutally gunned down Wednesday night time.
Omar, 42, lengthy a vocal critic of Israel with a propensity for placing her foot in her mouth, has been repeatedly accused by congressional colleagues of creating antisemitic feedback, together with equating the Jewish state with the Taliban and co-sponsoring laws declaring the founding of Israel a “catastrophe.”
Republicans booted her from the highly effective International Affairs Committee in February 2023 over these and different outbursts.
Final April, the Anti-Defamation League accused Omar of “blood libel” for claiming Jewish school college students may very well be divided into simply two camps — “pro-genocide” or “anti-genocide.”
She additionally downplayed a viral video exhibiting harassment of a Jewish pupil by anti-Israel protesters on the UCLA campus as “people moving around.”
