SWC Statement on Ousting Congressman Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee

February 2, 2023

The Simon Wiesenthal Center welcomed the ousting of Congressman Ilan Omar from the House Foreign Relations for anti-Semitic and anti-Israel comments.

“No one believed for one minute her disingenuous claim following the deployment of a classic anti-Semitic trope,” said Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, Founder and CEO and Associate Dean and Global Social Action Director.

“Representative Omar should have been held accountable immediately by the House when she made those statements,” they added.

“Moving forward, if Congresswoman Omar wants to repair her relationship with the Jewish community, she should own up to what was said in the past, apologize and move on,” Hier and Cooper concluded.

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