Squad's Ilhan Omar to be CENSURED for calling Jewish students 'pro-genocide' at Columbia anti-Israel rally where her own daughter was arrested

Republican Rep. Don Bacon has introduced a resolution to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar for saying some Jewish students are 'pro-genocide.'

The moderate Nebraska Republican's resolution will not force an immediate vote, but it strongly condemns remarks made by the Squad progressive. 

The censure accuses Omar of a 'long and demonstrated history of hateful rhetoric that plays into the worst antisemitic tropes.' 

While visiting campuses last month to show solidarity with pro-Gaza student protesters after her daughter was arrested, Omar spoke out against bigotry against Jewish students in a seemingly tongue-in-cheek remark. 

'I think it is really unfortunate that people don't care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe, and that we should not have to tolerate antisemitism or bigotry for all Jewish students, whether they're pro-genocide or anti-genocide,' she said. 

The resolution also notes comments Omar made in 2021 when she tweeted, 'we have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan and the Taliban.'

It notes the Somalia-born progressive has called Israel's response to the October 7 attack an 'act of terrorism.' 

The resolution notes a slew of past anti-Israel social media posts from Omar: 

‘Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel,' she wrote on X, formerly Twitter, in 2012. 

‘Drawing attention to the apartheid Israeli regime is far from hating Jews,' she posted in 2018.

The Minnesota Democrat was previously booted from the Foreign Affairs Committee for reportedly suggesting that lawmakers and activists who support Israel hold 'allegiance to a foreign country.'

In 2019, she came under fire for saying AIPAC and Jewish people were trying to buy influence: 'It’s all about the Benjamins, baby.’ Congressional Democratic leadership condemned her for it. 

She would follow Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who was censured over anti-Israel comments in November for parroting the Palestinian slogan 'from the the river to the sea.' 

'It is gaslighting to impute that Jewish people are somehow at fault for being harassed and menaced with signs and slogans literally calling for their own extermination. It is abhorrent that a sitting member of Congress would slander an entire group of young people in such a cold, calculated manner. This is how people get killed.'  

Omar then referred to a report from The Intercept about the Department of Education investigating protests at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for anti-Palestinian bias. 

In a civil rights complaint 18 students said they had been the victim of 'extreme anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab harassment and discrimination.' One allegation claimed a student had shouted 'kill all Arabs' at pro-Gaza demonstrators. One university official had allegedly said of the protestors: 'They are all Hamas. All grotesquely evil.'

'This is the pro-genocide I was talking about, can you condemn this like I have condemned antisemitism and bigotry of all kind?' Omar challenged Greenblatt.

Omar is one of 37 House Democrats who voted against aid for Israel earlier this month as the Palestinian death toll in Gaza since October 7 surpassed 34,000. 

Omar's comments come as Republicans have repeatedly demanded Columbia President Minouche Shafik resign for being unable to quash the demonstrations. Speaker Mike Johnson suggested President Joe Biden bring in the National Guard.

Last week the House's Republican Whip Tom Emmer accused Omar of being 'pro-terrorist.'  

Columbia's 2 p.m. deadline for student demonstrators to clear out an encampment or face disciplinary action came and went on Monday but the camps remain. Columbia faculty linked arms and formed a wall of protection around the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. 

Rep. Anthony D'Esposito suggested pro-Palestinian demonstraters were 'proud that you've been endorsed by Hamas.'

Florida Democrat Rep. Jared Moskowitz likened antisemitism within Columbia's protests to the 2017 Charlottesville white nationalist rally last week. 

'We were mad years ago when we saw Charlottesville and 'Jews will not replace us' and Donald Trump saying 'Good people on both sides' or 'Mexicans are rapists,' right? But somehow we don't have the same anger of, 'Go back to Poland,'' Moskowitz said on CNN.

'It's the same message, which is, 'Jews are not welcome,'' he continued.