Pro-Israel advocate: Ilhan Omar ‘covertly represents Hamas’ in Congress
February 27, 2019
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After weathering accusations of anti-Semitism, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has been accused of supporting Palestinian terror group Hamas.
Following reports that the congresswoman will attend a fundraiser hosted by a terror-linked group, Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Omar was accused of being a “Hamas plant” by Laurie Cardoza-Moore, founder of the pro-Israel evangelical group Proclaiming Justice to the Nations. “Ilhan Omar covertly represents Hamas in the U.S. Congress, we need to act now before this blows up in our faces,” Cardoza-Moore said.
Omar accused of being Hamas “plant”
In the wake of controversy over anti-Semitic tweets that Omar fired off earlier this month, it was reported that she will attend a Los Angeles fundraiser in March for CAIR, which has been linked with Hamas and Hezbollah. The FBI has established that CAIR was an unindicted conspirator in efforts to fund Hamas, and a federal judge declared in 2009 that there is enough evidence to support a connection between CAIR and the terror group. The United Arab Emirates also labeled it a terror group in 2014 among the likes of al-Qaeda.
Omar will speak alongside CAIR-Florida chief executive Hassan Shibly, who has denied that Hamas and Hezbollah are terror groups. CAIR-LA chief executive director Hussam Alyoush has compared Israel to ISIS. CAIR also gave legal support to the family of the terrorists who carried out the San Bernardino terror attack in 2015.
CAIR came to Omar’s defense in the midst of her anti-Semitism controversy, in which Omar accused the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of paying off American lawmakers to side with the Jewish state, invoking old anti-Semitic canards of Jewish conspiracy.
“CAIR supports Representative Omar and her efforts to highlight the lobbying efforts of AIPAC,” said Robert McCaw, director of government affair at CAIR. “CAIR does not feel there was any antisemitic meaning in her tweet, but due to the brevity some took it as such.”
Omar issued an apology for the tweets and deleted them this week, but her apology was deemed shallow by many considering her continued support of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement, as well as a tweet in 2012 claiming Jews “hypnotized the world.” Omar has also said that she “chuckles” when Israel is called a democracy and has likened Israel to apartheid-era South Africa.
Omar has faced calls to resign from President Donald Trump and from Cardoza-Moore, who started a petition seeking her ouster that has gotten thousands of signatures.
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“CAIR and Hamas are one and the same,” Cardoza-Moore said. “Ilhan Omar openly fundraising for CAIR means she is not just a rabid anti-Semite, but a real threat to our national security. PJTN has already secured thousands of signatures on our petition to have her ousted from Congress and we will continue to wage our national campaign to unite American patriots against this dangerous phenomenon. We the people demand that members of a subversive anti-Semitic organization, with close ties to terrorist groups, not be made welcome in our Congress.”
Troubling connections
Omar now sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee, an alarming fact to some who are troubled by her anti-Semitic statements and flirtation with anti-American terror groups over the years.
But Omar’s rather public sympathy for radical Islamic groups is nothing new. For years before entering Congress, Omar expressed anti-American attitudes and struck a cavalier tone on Islamic extremism. In 2016, she pleaded for a judge to go easy on Minnesotan men who tried to join ISIS, and in a 2013 TV interview with Hamas sympathizer Ahmed Tharwat, blamed American involvement in foreign countries for Islamic terrorism and made fun of how Westerners talk about terror groups like Hezbollah and ISIS.
“What you’re insinuating is what nobody wants to face. Nobody wants to face how the actions of the other people that are involved in the world have contributed to the rise of the radicalization and the rise of terrorist acts,” she said.
Tharwat has described Israel as “Jewish ISIS” and compared Hamas to victims of the Holocaust. Omar interviewed with him as recently as 2017.
True to her anti-American attitudes, Omar became one of the first lawmakers to sign a pledge to impeach Trump this week, along with fellow BDS supporter Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
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