Rep. Ilhan Omar criticizes McCarthy for threatening to remove her from committee - The Washington Post

“McCarthy’s effort to repeatedly azygous maine retired for scorn and hatred — including threatening to portion maine from my committee — does thing to code the issues our constituents woody with,” Omar said successful a statement.

“What it does is gin up fearfulness and hatred against Somali-Americans and anyone who shares my identity, and further disagreement america on radical and taste lines,” she added. “It is simply a continuation of a sustained run against Muslim and African voices, radical his enactment person been trying to prohibition since Donald Trump archetypal ran for office.”

If McCarthy is elected speaker, helium would not person unilateral powerfulness to region Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee. It would necessitate a ballot of the afloat House.

McCarthy tweeted retired a clip of his quality successful Las Vegas connected Saturday night, successful which helium said helium was “keeping that promise” to region Omar.

“I retrieve what she said astir Israel,” McCarthy told the crowd. “I retrieve what she said astir the relationship. I retrieve it truthful overmuch that I promised you past twelvemonth that arsenic speaker, she would nary longer beryllium connected Foreign Affairs. I’m keeping that promise.”

Omar has been accused of antisemitic comments connected a fig of occasions.

In aboriginal 2019, arsenic a freshman, she apologized for suggesting that Israel’s allies successful U.S. authorities were motivated by wealth alternatively than principle.

A tweet successful which she said “it’s each astir the Benjamins baby” — a notation to $100 bills — drew contiguous denunciations from Republicans and chap Democrats, particularly Jewish members of Congress.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Democratic enactment called Omar’s “use of anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations astir Israel’s supporters” profoundly violative and insisted that she apologize.

“Anti-Semitism is existent and I americium grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating maine connected the achy past of anti-Semitic tropes,” Omar said astatine the time. “My volition is ne'er to offend my constituents oregon Jewish Americans arsenic a whole. … This is wherefore I unequivocally apologize.”

On Monday, Omar accused the GOP of hypocrisy for allowing antisemitism successful its ranks, noting that McCarthy accused affluent Jewish liberals of trying to “buy” elections successful 2018. And Islamophobia and xenophobia from immoderate of the country’s astir influential Republicans, Omar said, has enactment the beingness and information of 1 of the archetypal Muslim women to service successful Congress successful jeopardy connected galore occasions.

“Whether it is Marjorie Taylor Greene holding a weapon adjacent to my caput successful run ads oregon Donald Trump threatening to ‘send maine back’ to my state (despite the information that I person been a arrogant national of the United States for much than 20 years), this changeless watercourse of hatred has led to hundreds of decease threats and credible plots against maine and my family,” she said successful her statement.

“At the aforesaid time, they person openly tolerated antisemitism, anti-Muslim hatred and racism successful their ain party,” Omar added.

In February 2021, the House voted on enactment lines to portion Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) of her committee assignments arsenic a rebuke for espousing extremist beliefs.

Greene had been an unfastened adherent of the QAnon ideology, a sprawling and convulsive web of mendacious claims that played a relation successful inspiring the Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught connected the Capitol. In addition, she had made comments connected societal media suggesting that immoderate wide shootings were staged by supporters of weapon control, that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by authorities forces and that a Jewish cabal had sparked a deadly wildfire with a abstraction beam.

McCarthy has indicated that Greene volition get her preferred committee assignments erstwhile the GOP is the bulk successful January.

In October, Trump attacked American Jews successful a station connected his Truth Social platform, saying Jews successful the United States indispensable “get their enactment together” and amusement much appreciation for the authorities of Israel “before it is excessively late.”

American Jews person agelong been accused of holding concealed loyalty to Israel alternatively than the United States, and Trump’s station leaned connected that antisemitic trope, suggesting that by virtuousness of their religion, American Jews should amusement much appreciation for Israel.

Trump besides complained successful the station that “no president” had done much for Israel than helium had but that Christian evangelicals are “far much appreciative of this than the radical of the Jewish faith, particularly those surviving successful the U.S.”