/2 A group of two dozen or so House Democrats have been debating for hours about how harsh a statement to issue on Omar
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News - A group of Jewish House Democrats are about issue a statement slamming @IlhanMN for her comments comparing the “unthinkable atrocities committed by the US, Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan and the Taliban.”
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/3 Told this statement is coming tonight, but it may take longer. What’s clear is that these Democrats are upset at Omar & see her comments as anti-Semitic
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@jeremyslevin, senior comms director/strategist from@IlhanMN had this lengthy response: "On 2020, the International Criminal Court—the multilateral criminal justice court that the United States helped found but has not joined—opened an investigation into alleged crimes..."Show this thread -
/5 "committed by both the Taliban and the United States in Afghanistan, as well as allegations against Hamas and Israel in the 2014 Gaza conflict in 2021. President Donald Trump opposed this investigation and went as far as to sanction individual staff of the court..."
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/6 "—a blatant interference with the rule of law & international justice. Thankfully, President Biden repealed those sanctions, but has thus far opposed the investigations. Rep. Omar thanked Secretary of State Blinken for the Administration’s decision to repeal the sanctions..."
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/7 "and asked about justice mechanisms for victims of war crimes outside the criminal court. As usual, the far right is ginning up hate against Rep. Omar for a technical question about an ongoing investigation."
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/8 " It is the Congresswoman’s role as a Member of Congress conducting federal oversight to follow the facts, ask questions of the Administration and work to make sure the public understands our government shouldn’t deny any person from seeking justice."
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/9 Let's discuss a couple of other points. Omar has been the subject of vile, disgusting death threats already from the coverage of this issue. She posted one such threat on her Twitter feed. Go listen to it.
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/10 Slevin says Omar's office was told by some of the Jewish Democrats that their statement "specifically doesn't call" her remarks anti-Semitic. But this isn't the first such incident involving Omar's remarks on Israel. And a number of members do feel this way
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So Israel has never committed atrocities? Some people are blind in one eye and can't see out the other.
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Some people haven’t read Goliath by Max Blumenthal
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