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| Israel critic elected to House backtracks on her previous opposition to BDS | |
| 2018-11-15 | |
[IsraelTimes] Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar
Omar’s comment came in response to a website called Moslem Girl, which pressed her on her appearance during the campaign at a Minneapolis area synagogue. During that candidates’ forum, she had said that BDS "stops the dialogue" and is "counteractive" to achieving a two-state outcome. Like many other Democrats, she noted her opposition to anti-BDS legislation but framed it as a free-speech issue. "Ilhan believes in and supports the BDS movement, and has fought to make sure people’s right to support it isn’t criminalized," her campaign told Moslem Girl after the election. "She does, however, have reservations on the effectiveness of the movement in accomplishing a lasting solution." TC Jewfolk, a local Jewish news website which originally reported her ostensible rejection of BDS, pressed her on the issue after the Moslem Girl statement in text messages which it posted on Twitter. Omar insisted there was no contradiction. "I believe and support the BDS movement and have fought to make sure people’s right to support it isn’t criminalized," she said. "I do, however, have reservations on [the] effectiveness of the movement in accomplishing a lasting solution. Which is what I believe I said at the forum." The TC Jewfolk news hound pressed her further, asking Omar why she didn’t simply answer "yes or no" when asked about the issue at the synagogue forum for candidates. "It was a bigger issue and she didn’t ask for a ’yes or no’ answer," Omar replied, referring to the person who posed the question. Omar said her position during the campaign was not "politically expedient." Omar had earned notoriety in the pro-Israel community for a 2012 tweets posted in which she said that Israel had "hypnotized the world" to ignore its "evil doings." Defending that tweet earlier this year, she said on the same platform that calling attention to the "Israeli Apartheid regime" was not anti-Semitic. Omar is the first Somali and one of the first two Moslem women elected to Congress. The other Moslem woman elected last week, Rashida Tlaib of the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... area, also backs BDS. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 You can keep your doctor No boots on the ground We can not drill our way out of our oil dependency See - Frog and Scorpion |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-11-15 12:58 |
| #4 this district is essentially a DFL monoculture whoever won the D primary was guaranteed election |
| Posted by: lord garth 2018-11-15 09:51 |
| #3 Thanks Minnesota! Somali-Land North |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-11-15 08:36 |
| #2 Voter demographics for 2018 and how they votes. https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/exit-polls |
| Posted by: charger 2018-11-15 07:19 |
| #1 So it's called "Israel Critic" nowadays? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-11-15 05:14 |