-Muslim lawmaker equates US and Israel with Taliban
DM Monitoring
WASHINGTON: US congresswoman Ilhan Omar has hit back after a rare rebuke from her Democratic Party colleagues over her remarks that seemed to place the United States and Israel in the same category as the Palestinian resistance group Hamas and the Afghan armed group Taliban.
The Muslim American congresswoman on Monday tweeted: “We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the US, Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban”, drawing bipartisan condemnation and even seeing her accused of “anti-Semitism”.
“We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity,” she tweeted, along with a video of her questioning Secretary of State Antony Blinken regarding the US opposition to International Criminal Court inquiries into alleged war crimes in Israel and Afghanistan. A dozen Jewish lawmakers called on Omar to “clarify her words”, arguing that “equating the United States and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban is as offensive as it is misguided”.
“It’s shameful for colleagues who call me when they need my support to now put out a statement asking for “clarification,” the Minnesota representative tweeted.
