It’s an old joke: How can you tell a politician is lying? His lips are moving.
It seems that may be the case for the first two Muslim women elected to the U.S. Congress. An analyst at the Gatestone Institute presented evidence that Ilhan Abdullahi Omar
| ...Somali immigrant, Democratic politician, married her brother to get him a green card while still married to the father of her children, Joo-hater. Congresswoman Omar is listed in the Rantburg archives simply as Ilhan Omar... |
| ...American-born Muslim from a West Bank family, member of the Democratic Socialists of America, BDS babe, so of course she represents Detroit in Congress. In our archives as simply Rashida Tlaib, she appears to be considerably more anti-Israel than her cousins in the Old Country... |
The charge comes from Soeren Kern, a senior fellow at the institute, who who wrote that most of the media coverage since their election Nov. 6 "has been effusive in praise of their Muslim identity and personal history."
"Less known is that both women deceived voters about their positions on Israel. Both women, at some point during their rise in electoral politics, led voters ‐ especially Jewish voters ‐ to believe that they held moderate views on Israel. After being elected, both women reversed their positions and now say they are committed to sanctioning the Jewish state."
Kern noted that both of the new Congress members support the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions, or BDS, movement.
"Both are also explicitly or implicitly opposed to continuing military aid to Israel, as well as to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ‐ an outcome that would establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Instead, they favor a one-state solution ‐ an outcome that many analysts believe would, due to demographics over time, replace the Jewish state with a unitary Palestinian state."
Kern explains Omar, who replaced the first Muslim ever elected to Congress, Rep. Keith Ellison, in Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, made her claims after controversy arose during her campaign.
There was a "disturbing report" she had married her own brother in 2009 for fraudulent purposes, "as well as a tweet from May 2018 in which she refers to Israel as an ’apartheid regime,’ and another tweet from November 2012, in which she stated: ’Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel,'" he explained.