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1. Ilhan Omar Condemned and Apologizes for Anti-Semitic Statements
Representative Ilhan Omar, marred in antisemitic hate speech, apologized on
Monday for suggesting that American support for Israel is fueled by money from
AIPAC—a pro-Israel lobbying group. Her tweet drew swift and unequivocal
condemnation from her fellow Democrats, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, also
known as ‘she who must not be messed with’.
The apology by Ms. Omar, a freshman lawmaker from Minnesota and one of the
first two Muslim women elected to Congress, followed bipartisan anger over her
tweet Sunday night that support for Israel was “all about the Benjamins baby,” a
reference to hundred-dollar bills.
“Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are
educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,” Ms. Omar said in a
Twitter statement released soon after Ms. Pelosi and the entire Democratic

2. leadership publicly chastised her for engaging in “deeply offensive” anti-Semitic
tropes.“My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a
whole. I unequivocally apologize.”
Fair enough, I thought, seems she made a rookiemistake (whatever you do, don’t
mess with AIPAC, a bad idea all around) and took the lumps that followed. She’s
new to the swamp, the quicksand that is Washington politics where one wrong
step sinks you in mud up to your neck, sometimes even engulfing you—you
disappear from the scene like you never existed. No one is perfect. I also took a
moment to investigate her early life—a Muslim women from Somalia—a land rife
with hunger, poverty, Islamic zeal, corruption and all around one of the messiest
and messed up countries on earth.
Omar was born on October 4, 1981, in Mogadishu, the youngest of seven siblings.
Her father worked as a teacher trainer. Her mother died when Omar was two
years old. She was raised by her father and grandfatherwho was the director of
Somalia's National Marine Transport. Her family fled the country after the start
of the Somali Civil War in 1991and spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya.
“Okay,” I mumbled and sighed. “The little girl had her mom die when she was a
toddler, tough, and then spent 4 years, between ages 10-14 in a refugee camp.
Sounds perilous and very sad.”

3. Omar and her family's application to be resettled as refugees in the U.S. was
approved in 1995.They settled in Minneapolis, where she learned English. Her
father drove a taxi and later worked for the USPS.Her father and grandfather
emphasized the importance of democracy, and she accompanied her grandfather
to caucus meetings at age 14, serving as his interpreter.
Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old. She was bullied
for wearing a hijab, recalling classmates sticking gum on her hijab, pushing her
down stairs, and jumping her when changing for gym class. Omar remembers her
father's reaction to these incidents: "They are doing something to you because
they feel threatened in some way by your existence.”
Omar graduated from North Dakota State University in 2011 with a bachelor's
degrees in political science and international studies. She was Policy Fellow at
the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

4. “Wow,” I mumbled under my breath. “That’s one eventful and challenging life,
one I wouldn’t know anything about cause I grew up in a free country where I
always had a bed to sleep in and plenty of food on the table, where I felt safe and,
as a teenager, was probably pretty snooty and entitled while Omar languished in
a Kenyan refugee camp and then migrated to a new country where she had to
learn English and was exposed to the slings and arrows of racism and
bigotry…only to be elected to Congress in 2018. You got to give the lady credit for,
if nothing else, grit and determination.”
We are a generous country that rejoices in diversity, be it religious, ethnic or
gender-based. Everyone deserves a fair shot at success but nothing in life is free.
Actions have consequences, and Omar has had a shot fired across her bow—mess
with AIPAC and antisemitism at risk of your own peril. Omar needs to update her
world history, read about the holocaust, learn about the establishment of the
Israeli state—by far the most transparent and democratic country in the Middle
East. As one escaping prosecution and ethnic cleansing, Ilhan Omarhas received
her first serious lesson in political wisdom. Let’s hope she learns her lesson and,
while representing her district in Congress, pays respect to AIPAC, the American-
Jewish electorate, and to the state of Israel.
President Trump succinctly encapsulated Omar’s transgression, calling it ‘lame’.