Ilhan Omar's recent comments have been criticized by pro-Israel Jewish students and organizations, the ADL, and congressional lawmakers.
, Jonathan Greenblatt, accused Rep. Ilhan Omar of “blood libel” after she labeled Jewish students as being either “pro-genocide” or “anti-genocide.”
“It is patently false and a blood libel to suggest that ANY Jewish students are ‘pro-genocide,’” Greenblatt wrote. “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.”“So I actually met a lot of Jewish students that are in the encampments,” she said.
“I think the essential point that Ilhan made is that we do not want to see antisemitism in this country, and I think the word ‘genocide’ is something that is being determined by the International Court of Justice,” the progressive senator said. Yakoby accused Omar of going to the Columbia hearing on antisemitism “with the sole goal of trivializing what Jewish students are facing. The hearing was supported across the aisle, and yet she came only to undermine and subvert antisemitism.”
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