What Next - Listening to Ilhan Omar
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
House Democrats have scuttled a plan to chide Rep. Ilhan Omar over remarks she made about the U.S.-Israel relationship. Why were her words so triggering? Is she making a fair point? And what should she do now?
Guest: Slate economics and policy writer Jordan Weissmann.
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| 0:00.0 | Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has become well known for a couple of things, |
| 0:10.0 | being the first woman to wear a hijab on the floor of Congress, and making off-the-cuff comments |
| 0:15.0 | that question the U.S. relationship with Israel. |
| 0:17.0 | The backlash over this tweet, she had tweeted, quote, it's all about the Benjamin's baby, |
| 0:22.9 | and it was her response. |
| 0:23.8 | This weekend at a Washington, D.C. bookstore. |
| 0:26.1 | She was trying to defend what she said, point out how labeling her comments as anti-Semitic |
| 0:31.6 | can be a distraction. |
| 0:33.2 | We end up defending that, and nobody ever gets to have the broader debate of what is happening with Palestine. |
| 0:41.4 | And then she slipped up again. |
| 0:44.2 | I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is okay for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country. |
| 0:56.0 | She says allegiance to a foreign country. |
| 0:59.2 | Four words. |
| 1:00.3 | Just a couple of seconds of a 10-minute speech. |
| 1:03.2 | If this event weren't being streamed on Facebook, |
| 1:05.4 | we might have never heard these four words again. |
| 1:08.2 | Instead, here we are. |
| 1:10.6 | It's about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who has a panoply of a |
| 1:14.8 | connoitive anti-Semitic ideas. Do the Democrats have a problem with anti-Semitism? She supports |
| 1:20.6 | enemies of America and doesn't look herself in the mirror and say, my God, if I'm accusing people |
| 1:26.3 | of dual loyalty, where are my loyalties? |
| 1:30.2 | When you saw what was happening with Ilhan Omar, what did you want to talk about? |
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