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Post Millennial: Over 200 rabbis demand Pelosi remove Ilhan Omar from committee over anti-Israel comments
Despite previous vows aimed at “learning” about the American political climate, Rep. Ilhan Omar returns to causing controversy with the Jewish community.
Breitbart: Over 200 Rabbis Slam Nancy Pelosi for Not Removing Ilhan Omar from her Committee Assignment
Jewish people all over the country are being attacked day and night, and the attackers are incited by Omar’s rhetoric, “Yet the Congressional Progressive Caucus claims that it is Rep. Omar who is facing ‘threats.’” This is why the group says they are “appalled.”
Fox News: Over 200 rabbis blast Pelosi’s failure to strongly reprimand Minnesota Rep. Omar for her anti-Israel comments
More than 200 rabbis called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from the House Foreign Affairs Committee in a letter on Wednesday, accusing Omar of inciting attacks on American Jews.
CNS: GOP Chairwoman McDaniel: ‘Ilhan Omar is a Radical Anti-Semite’
Rabbi Pesach Lerner, president of the CJV, said, “The real concern is that House Democrats are treating Anti-Semitism as a political weapon, abetted by the silence and even backing of Democratic Jewish members.”
Newsweek: Shutting Down Faith-Based Foster Care Agencies Harms Children
Children in need of foster care are being kept in institutional settings, rather than being placed with loving foster parents. Both the city and LGBTQ activists claim that this flagrantly inhumane outcome is good for society.
Lars Larson Show: Yaakov Menken – Why didn’t “woke” Google fire its head of diversity for being anti-Semitic?
The idea that Jews want to harm the rest of the world is one of the classic beliefs you will find in any antisemite, and that’s why we said this is not about Israel or the Middle East, but antisemitism.
Daily Wire: Group Of Orthodox Rabbis Rip ‘Squad’: They Motivate Violent Attacks On Jews
“The Democratic party must do more, and do so immediately, to reverse the tide of Antisemitic hatred now sweeping the country,” said Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer, Chairman of CJV’s Rabbinic Circle.
CNS: Orthodox Rabbis: ‘Hateful Bias’ of The Squad is Motivating ‘Violent Attacks Against Jews’ in U.S. Cities
Both Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Omar have described Israel as “an apartheid state,” and Rep. Tlaib has used the phrase “from the river to the sea,” which means eradicate Israel and its Jewish population.
Epoch Times: Google Reassigns Diversity Staffer Who Said Jews Have ‘Insatiable Appetite for War and Killing’
The Coalition of Jewish Values wrote to Google CEO Sundar Pichai to urge him to immediately replace Bobb, indicating an apology was not sufficient.
Fox Business: Rabbinic organization calls on Google to replace staffer over ‘deeply disturbing,’ ‘anti-Semitic’ blog post
The Coalition for Jewish Values called the use of a bigoted stereotype unacceptable.