The Anti-Defamation League has accused Rep. Ilhan Omar of perpetrating a “blood libel” against the Jewish people.
The allegation stems from something Omar said while hobnobbing with pro-Hamas “protesters” at Columbia University on Friday.
“So I actually met a lot of Jewish students that are in the encampments,” she told local media while there. “And I think it is really unfortunate that people don’t care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe and that we should not have to tolerate antisemitism or bigotry for all Jewish students whether they are pro-genocide or anti-genocide.”
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Ilhan Omar claims some of the Jewish students at Columbia University are “pro-genocide”
This comes after she shook the hand of one of the student leaders of the anti-Semitic protest this week who previously said that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”pic.twitter.com/nNmerPPflV
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 27, 2024
She basically suggested that any Jewish student who supports Israel’s justified offense in Gaza is for so-called “genocide.”
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, who’s admittedly known for trying to silence any dissenting thought, wasn’t pleased.
“It is patently false and a blood libel to suggest that ANY Jewish students are ‘pro-genocide,’” he wrote in a tweet. “It is gaslighting to impute that Jewish people are somehow at fault for being harassed and menaced with signs and slogans literally calling for their own extermination.”
“It is abhorrent that a sitting member of Congress would slander an entire group of young people in such a cold, calculated manner. This is how people get killed. @IlhanMN must apologize, but I’m not holding my breath,” he added.
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Watch this clip. It features @IlhanMN walking through @Columbia proclaiming that “Jewish students… should not have to tolerate antisemitism… whether they’re pro-genocide or anti-genocide.”
It is patently false and a blood libel to suggest that ANY Jewish students are… pic.twitter.com/XbP5J4VspE
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) April 28, 2024
Omar responded to the growing criticism and backlash by posting a tweet pointing to an article from The Intercept about the Biden administration’s investigation into the University of Massachusetts over alleged “anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab harassment and discrimination by fellow students.”
“This is the pro-genocide I was talking about, can you condemn this like I have condemned antisemitism and bigotry of all kind?” she tweeted.
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This is the pro-genocide I was talking about, can you condemn this like I have condemned antisemitism and bigotry of all kind?
“Kill All Arabs”
“They are all Hamas. All grotesquely evil”
“Level Gaza”https://t.co/sD4G6qoHRe https://t.co/kUuD22WPui— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 28, 2024
The tweet prompted a massive amount of pushback.
“You refused to condemn Hamas, whose terrorists tortured young women before and while raping them, and who kidnapped and slaughtered 1,200 innocents,” one critic wrote. “No one is buying the freedom-fighter facade.”
“Of course, I condemn that, most Israelis condemn any call of k*lling all Palestinians,” another critic wrote. “Even though you do everything in your power to dehumanize all Israelis and rebrand 1935 antisemitism as 2024 antizionism – We see right through you.”
See more responses below:
Are you saying there are good people on both sides?
— ℙ (@DaxophoneSolo) April 28, 2024
I condemn it. That is easy. But you are disingenuous because this is just a red herring used to deflect from the hate you embrace and support.
— jojo07 (@incogneeeeto) April 28, 2024
Anyone who says kill all Arabs is rejected from Israeli society and from any Jewish gathering. We don’t stand next to them while they chant and say “oh, well we don’t reeaaallly mean that *wink*”
We are not the same.
— P Shekter (@neocon53) April 28, 2024
Ilhan Omar has found ONE allegation of potential anti-Palestinian activity on a campus, meanwhile the DOE has opened THOUSANDS of antisemitism cases since Biden took office. @Ilhan is an expert at playing victim while spreading Jew-hate & lies.
— Ellie Cohanim (@EllieCohanim) April 28, 2024
Ilhan Omar is making a false equivalence.
It’s the pro-Hamas extremists who’ve taken over campuses nationwide and en masse called for the genocįde of all Jews.
Omar is proving again why she has no place being in the U.S. Congress or our country.
Expel, denaturalize and deport.
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) April 28, 2024
You shook hands with him: https://t.co/LIMUKtT09P
— Isaac de Castro (@isaacdecastrog) April 28, 2024
Greenblatt also responded. In a lengthy rebuttal, he noted that the ADL “always” condemns bigotry, including “anti-Muslim” bias. He then asked Omar whether she likewise can condemn Islamic terrorists.
“So, yes, of course, we condemn those who say these grotesque things, but do you also condemn those who chant Qassam Brigade? Who declare Zionists are genocidal? Who call to globalize the intifada?” he wrote.
All this comes weeks after Omar voted against a $26 billion aid package for Israel that had included humanitarian aid for her beloved Palestinians.
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Author: Vivek Saxena
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