Republicans kicking Ilhan Omar off her committees was just the latest demonstration of who’s really in charge of the House.
Then, in 2021, Omar tweeted that the “U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban” were all guilty of “unthinkable atrocities,” prompting outrage from Jewish Democrats, among others. She later argued she was not making “a moral comparison” between the entities she mentioned.
In 2021, Greene and Gosar were removed from their committee positions largely on the basis of their endorsement of violent rhetoric. Greene had liked social media posts calling for violence against Pelosi, whileBut Gosar and Greene each have also trafficked in fairly obvious antisemitism. Both, for instance, appeared at the white nationalist conference run by Nick Fuentes, an extremist activist who has praised Adolf Hitler and denied the Holocaust happened.
The point that Greene and Gosar’s antisemitic extremism is going unaddressed is one that did not go unnoticed by Democrats during the debate over Omar on Thursday. But McCarthy and most Republicans have been content to sweep such rhetoric under the rug while demanding accountability for Omar’s rhetoric.
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