Ilhan Omar

Party members say it is due to past comments about Israel - but Democrats have called it revenge.

Before the vote on Thursday, Ms Omar said another death threat that had been sent to her office. In 2018, she became one of the first Muslim women elected to the US Congress. she said shortly before the vote.

U.S. House of Representatives Republicans on Thursday ousted Democrat Ilhan Omar from a high-profile committee over remarks widely condemned as antisemitic, ...

The congresswoman is being held accountable for her words and her actions." Omar has said in the past that U.S. The movement has since grown. Benjamin Franklin, whose signature on the 1776 Declaration of Independence and 1787 U.S. She was in line to be the top Democrat on the foreign affairs panel's Africa subcommittee. The deeply divided House voted 218-211 along party lines to remove Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee with Republicans citing the 2019 remarks for which she later apologized.

House Republicans successfully booted Democrat Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee, removing from the panel a Black Muslim woman who GOP lawmakers ...

JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: In the ever-growing universe of partisan issues dividing the current Congress, the matter of committee assignments has reentered the ...

In response to another question about Taylor Greene, he said, is she on foreign affairs or the Intelligence Committee? This was a woman who was killed during the January 6 attack on the Capitol. But we should note, House Republicans have also blocked Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell for another set of reasons from the House Intelligence Committee. GRISALES: So there's a little bit of crosstalk there, but she's saying there that Omar should be on this committee, that the country is failing her today through this chamber and that she's sorry. McCarthy differed with that claim and said a police officer was doing his job that day. Democrats had kicked Georgia's Marjorie Taylor Greene and Arizona's Paul Gosar off all committees when they were in charge of the chamber. Today, on a party-line vote, Republicans ousted Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the House foreign affairs panel, but not before she made defiant remarks to the chamber. What have their arguments been for removing Omar from this committee? And Omar, for her part, said if anyone would be surprised that she's somehow deemed unworthy to speak about American foreign policy or that she's seen as a powerful voice that needs to be silenced. And yes, with every Democratic speaker, the emotional temperature raised in the chamber, including with Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib. KEVIN MCCARTHY: We're not removing her from other committees. ILHAN OMAR: My leadership and voice will not be diminished if I am not on this committee for one term.

The GOP's animus is based on what the outspoken, Black, African, female, Muslim congresswoman is and what she does.

Because she represents the promise of a multicultural, multifaith, multiracial and multiethnic America, her presence alone is a threat to those who think their version of the United States, along with their traditional privileges, is evaporating in front of their eyes. The fact is that almost no one (except perhaps Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) endures the same avalanche of hatred and abuse that Omar suffers daily. [Saudi Arabia](https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ilhan-omar-introduces-joint-resolution-block-650-million-saudi-arms-sale), [India](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/1196/text?r=1&s=1), [Russia](https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-omar-statement-ukraine-war-crime-deterrence-and-accountability-act), [the Taliban](https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-omar-statement-taliban-barring-afghan-girls-attending-school-beyond-sixth) and many more). But to think that only cynical politics or lack of principle is motivating these specific attacks on Omar is to miss the bigger picture. The Republican party continues to vilify Ilhan Omar because they believe they can. What really gets under the skin of the Republican party (and some Democrats) is that Omar won’t merely fall into line and toe today’s gentle political orthodoxies. The Trump-aligned wing of the Republican party has long had it in for Omar, and it’s not difficult to understand why. [tweeted](https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1565515860466343938) that “Joe Biden is Hitler”, speculated that the wildfires in California were [caused](https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/marjorie-taylor-greene-penned-conspiracy-theory-laser-beam-space-started-deadly-2018) by a beam from “space solar generators” linked to “Rothschild, Inc.”, a clear wink to bizarre antisemitic conspiracy theories. Just this past October, he [wrote](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/16/trump-jews-israel/) that “U.S. In fact, any reasonable observer would see that the Republicans have set out to punish Omar for an alleged set of misdeeds which they themselves frequently indulge in. In stereotypically anti-Jewish moves, Trump has [repeatedly](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/17/trump-history-antisemitic-tropes/) called the loyalty of Jewish Americans into question. [Ilhan Omar](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ilhan-omar) from the foreign affairs committee, where she’s served since 2019, because, they say, of her antisemitic views.