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March 6, 2019

House Updates Anti-Semitism Resolution to Include Islamophobia
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Tuesday that a resolution
condemning anti-Semitism will now also condemn anti-Muslim bias. The
resolution is seen as a direct rebuke of recent comments by Minnesota
Congressmember Ilhan Omar questioning the U.S.'s relationship with
Israel-even though the draft resolution does not explicitly name the
freshman congressmember. The resolution was announced after comments by
Omar at an event last week, in which she called out the "political
influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for
allegiance to a foreign country"-referring to Israel. Omar has
repeatedly condemned anti-Semitism. 
Prior to Pelosi's statement, New York Congressmember Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez posted a flurry of tweets Monday and Tuesday, accusing
Omar's critics of using a double standard, tweeting, "[I]ncidents like
these do beg the question: where are the resolutions against homophobic
statements? For anti-blackness? For xenophobia? For a member saying
he'll 'send Obama home to Kenya?'"


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