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From our board: Speaker Pelosi can either reject anti-Semitism or tolerate it, not both by Bradley Martin

By Bradley Martin

Speaker Nancy Pelosi did the right thing and spoke at a Women’s March event that rejected the anti-Semitism of national organization leaders such as Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory.

But just days before the event, Pelosi appointed newly elected congresswoman Ilhan Omar to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. This happened right after Omar defended her comment on Twitter accusing Israel of having “hypnotized the world.”

Aside from invoking an anti-Semitic trope steeped in centuries of bloody history, Omar also supports the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement that singles out the Jewish state for economic isolation while ignoring the atrocities committed against women, minorities and the LGBTQ community by the Arab and Muslim world.

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