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   The Jews can never seem to live up to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D.,   
   Minn.) exacting standards.   
      
   The Minnesota congresswoman’s latest broadside came Tuesday   
   afternoon, when she told CNN’s Jake Tapper that her Jewish   
   Democratic colleagues "haven’t been partners in justice" and   
   have yet to apologize for their allegedly Islamophobic comments.   
      
   Omar’s statement came after Tapper asked whether she regrets her   
   comments last month comparing the United States and Israel with   
   terrorist organizations like Hamas and the Taliban. Her answer   
   was unequivocal: "I don’t."   
      
   That’s funny, because Omar at the time "clarified" that   
   statement, which elicited a rebuke from Democratic leaders and a   
   dozen Jewish Democrats, saying that she did not say what in fact   
   she said: "I was in no way equating terrorist organizations with   
   democratic countries." To be clear, she also believes Israel is   
   a terrorist nation.   
      
   Omar, as the kids say, is owning her truth. Her tap dance   
   follows a pattern that is by now well established, in which the   
   justice-seeking congresswoman makes nakedly prejudicial remarks,   
   pretends to walk them back in the face of muted criticism from   
   her colleagues, characterizes the criticism itself as   
   Islamophobic, and proceeds to reoffend.   
      
   That pattern gives the lie to the apology Omar issued after   
   arguing that American support for Israel is "all about the   
   Benjamins, baby": Her offenses were born of ignorance rather   
   than prejudice, she said, and thanked her colleagues for   
   "educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes."   
      
   Omar could give a master class on anti-Semitism, and the pattern   
   of her offenses makes clear she is using that knowledge to   
   perpetuate it. That’s probably why a Punchbowl News report   
   earlier this month indicated that "a number of Omar’s fellow   
   Democrats believe Omar is an anti-Semite, even if they don’t say   
   so publicly."   
      
   It is, of course, the only prejudice about which Democrats are   
   tight-lipped and the only one tolerated in the party’s ranks.   
      
   It is also the latest indication that the party is following in   
   the footsteps of the British left, led until recently by Squad   
   ally Jeremy Corbyn. A report from the United Kingdom's Equality   
   and Human Rights Commission implicated not just Corbyn, whose   
   offenses are legion, but the Labour Party itself, which "at   
   best, did not do enough to prevent anti-Semitism and, at worst,   
   could be seen to accept it."   
      
   To the extent there is resistance in the Democratic Party to   
   Omar’s relentless attacks on Jews and her condemnations of   
   American power and influence, surely it is driven at least in   
   part by the shellacking the British left took in the last   
   national election there.   
      
   Should the Democrats continue down this path, we have faith that   
   the outcome for the left will be the same here as in Britain,   
   and that the more they see of Omar and her allies, the dimmer   
   their prospects become.   
      
   https://freebeacon.com/politics/ilhan-omar-knows-what-shes-doing/   
      
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