Making the click-through worthwhile: Ilhan Omar demonstrates that Democrats aren’t really that upset about anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
Most Democrats Are Fine with Ilhan Omar’s Comments About ‘Allegiance to a Foreign Country’
In case you’ve lost track of what the latest controversy surrounding Representative Ilhan Omar is about, during an appearance at a Washington D.C. bookstore, she declared, “I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is okay for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country.”
This was in the context of a discussion about U.S. policy towards Israel and the controversy surrounding her remarks from three weeks earlier, when she had said that Congressional support for Israel was “all about the Benjamins, baby” and funded by AIPAC, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee. Now it’s not clear whether the House will even consider a resolution denouncing anti-Semitism.
The bookstore remarks were a separate controversy ...
