IIhan Omar Accused Of Anti-Semitism In Michael Bloomberg Tweet (Or Something?)

November 10, 2019 – 7:43 am

There’s no doubt that Representative Ilhan Omar is anti-Jew and anti-Israel. She’s demonstrated it time and time again, and, if you’re palling around with CAIR, that notion just gets reinforced. If you were hanging with KKK members, speaking at their events, there’s a pretty good chance you’re a racist and bigot, right? But, what of this?

Ilhan Omar tweet called anti-Semitic ‘dog whistle’; tennis great Martina Navratilova among critics

A Twitter message posted Saturday by U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has revived accusations of anti-Semitism against the freshman congresswoman and member of the far-left “Squad.”

The remark, posted ahead of Omar’s scheduled appearance at a CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations) event in Washington, also drew a response from tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who accused Omar of “assigning labels.”

Omar’s defenders, however, claimed that charges of anti-Semitism against her were overblown, and that Omar’s critics were “obsessed with every word Ilhan says or tweets.”

Early Saturday afternoon, Omar reacted to a news report that said businessman Leon Cooperman had decided to back billionaire Michael Bloomberg for president. Both men are billionaires and Jewish.

And, the critics came out

“I suppose you think it’s all about the Benjamins,” wrote Michael Dickson, executive director of Stand with Us, a group that fights anti-Semitism. “We get your insinuation. True to form.”

“Omar very carefully making an anti-Semitic tweet with just enough vagueness to claim that ackshually [sic] she meant it was about the benjamins and not about religion,” Twitter user Josh Jordan wrote. “But everyone knows what she meant, which is why she continues to do it.”

“Generalizing is wrong no matter which ‘group’ of people one talks about,” Navratilova wrote. “It’s about assigning labels and I hate that.”

There are plenty more like that at the article and under her tweet. Some people defended her

“Oh for God’s sake, stop this ridiculousness,” wrote Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American activist and former leader of The Women’s March, who herself has been accused of anti-Semitism. “This obsession with every word Ilhan says or tweets is tired and it’s getting old.”

It doesn’t really help when you have a virulent Jew and Israel hater defending you, nor when Omar retweets Sarsour’s tweet. But, was Ilhan actually impugning something with her initial tweet, or was it just because both Bloomberg and Cooperman are billionaires? When I first read the article I was thinking “come on, people, not everything is a “dog whistle”. Let’s not do this same unhinged language police stuff that the Left does, where they proclaim that everything, no matter how innocuous, no matter how easy to understand, is said to be a dog whistle.” I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, at least on this particular tweet, because you know we would be defending Trump and other Republicans when Democrats are twisting their words, right?

But, you would think that Omar and/or her team could perhaps defend her, right? Something simple like “it was about the billionaire, not the Jew). The closest it comes is

But, those aren’t the words of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. But then we get this, literally the next tweet in her timeline

So, suddenly, she’s going with the attack her attackers method, impugn them. Nowhere does she attempt to clarify her initial comment, which would be so easy, right? Nothing on Twitter, neither her main account or her more official one using her title. Nor her two Facebook accounts. Nor Instagram. Nor her official House page. So, is this a big old fat nothingburger, or was there a double meaning to her original tweet? Most people would defend themselves against a charge of anti-Semitism, especially when they have a history of anti-Semitism. She doesn’t really bother.

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