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Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour led a rally on Wednesday at the steps of the Supreme Court with a large group of other leftist activists and organizations to express “unequivocal solidarity” with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for her recent remarks deemed anti-semitic.

Senator and 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) accused House Democrat leadership of targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as House Democrats draft a resolution condemning anti-semitism prompted by her latest anti-Jewish remarks.

Wednesday at House Democrats’ weekly press conference, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said “we are not going to be lectured” by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) who said antisemitism is on the rise in the House of Representatives. Tuesday while discussing

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters Wednesday that the House Foreign Affairs Committee would draft a new resolution against antisemitism, meaning that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) would be able to edit it.

House Democrats cannot agree on a resolution to condemn antisemitism, and a closed-door meeting Wednesday to discuss the issue reportedly collapsed into infighting as rank-and-file members challenged the party leadership.

Women’s March co-leader Linda Sarsour on Wednesday refused to respond when asked if Israel has the right to exist after promising to answer the question following a Washington, DC, rally in support of Rep. Ilhal Omar (D-MN), who is under fire for repeated antisemitic remarks.

A protester covered in pink began screaming “rapist” and “serial molester” against president Donald Trump Wednesday proclaiming “I was born here…don’t you dare speak to me” against a pro-Israel Middle Eastern Women’s Coalition event.

Left-wing activists supporting Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) disrupted the Middle Eastern Women’s Coalition’s rally demanding the freshman congresswoman resign on Wednesday morning.

Middle Eastern Women’s Coalition leaders and supporters gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday to call on Rep. Ilhan Omar to resign over support for Sharia law and antisemitic stances.

Linda Sarsour, co-leader of the embattled Women’s March, attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as House Democrats draft a resolution condemning antisemitism following blowback from Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) latest anti-semitic remarks. Omar became the center of controversy after suggesting last week

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) criticized remarks made by Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and said he isn’t close to removing her from her spot on the committee. Engel said Omar has

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) lashed out at Democrats in a tweet Tuesday, while prominent members of the party refuse to “accept” Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s “prejudices about the Jewish people.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) defended her colleague, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), from accusations of antisemitism Tuesday by retweeting Yousef Munayyer — a reported supporter of a Palestinian terror group.

Several radical left-wing groups are planning an event Wednesday morning in support of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), including CAIR and Jewish Voice for Peace.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) attacked Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. using false information Tuesday.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) said a resolution to condemn antisemitism in response to controversial remarks made about Israel by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is not enough. Scalise said, “She continues to display anti-Semitic

During a Tuesday appearance on MSNBC, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) weighed in on the resolution Democratic leaders proposed to address Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) continuous antisemitism. Lieu agreed that all forms of religious bigotry, but said Omar should not be

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tweeted Monday evening that she would have voted against the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Local Jewish leaders felt betrayed because Ilhan Omar returned to antisemitic rhetoric despite several recent meetings.

Democratic Party leaders scrambled Monday to limit the continuing political damage from ongoing antisemitic remarks by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), after the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called on the party to take action.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) doubled down Sunday on her comment last week accusing pro-Israel Americans of “allegiance to a foreign country,” repeating that view on Twitter and defying calls from fellow Democrats to apologize.

Rep. Ilhan Omar resorts to antisemitism because she refuses to acknowledge the truth: that Americans genuinely support Israel.

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) blasted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Friday for suggesting that pro-Israel politicians hold “allegiance to a foreign country” and demanded the freshman congresswoman apologize for her “vile anti-Semitic slur.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) launched a tweet storm on Saturday, calling the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency “dangerous.”

Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have a lot to say about Israel and Venezuela, but neither has had anything to say in Congress about China’s persecution of Muslims.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is being accused of antisemitism again after accusing pro-Israel Americans of “allegiance to a foreign country” at an event on Wednesday evening in Washington, DC.

TEL AVIV – Evangelical leader and TV host Laurie Cardoza-Moore called for the ouster of freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who she charged with being a “Hamas plant” and a threat to U.S. national security. 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and freshman congresswomen Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Jahana Hayes (D-CT) appear on the March cover of Rolling Stone, the magazine announced Wednesday.

A group of key Democrats in the House of Representatives have come forward to publicly back President Donald Trump ahead of his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) are the first members of Congress to sign on to a pledge launched by a progressive advocacy organization to impeach President Donald Trump.

In a wild interview with Boston Public Radio, freshman Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) lambasted President Donald Trump and called for his immediate impeachment from office–while also ripping the president over the crisis at the U.S. border with Mexico and attacking federal law enforcement agencies.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) will be the keynote speaker at a fundraiser for the Los Angeles branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on March 23.

Sunday in his annual Saviours’ Day address, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) had “nothing to apologize for” when referencing her controversial antisemitic tweet. Even though Omar has already apologized, Farrakhan said, “Ms. Omar from Somalia, she started

Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), both facing accusations of antisemitism, have found support from IfNotNow, a radical left-wing anti-Israel organization on the fringe of the Jewish community.

Rep. Ilhan Omar is an antisemite and, as the actions of the congressional Democratic leadership last week made clear, hating Jews is a perfectly acceptable position in today’s Democratic Party.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) attacked Special Envoy on Venezuela Elliott Abrams in a House Foreign Affairs Committee session on Wednesday, accusing him of genocidal culpability for a “massacre” in 1980s El Salvador during which “more than 800 civilians, including children as young as two years old, were brutally murdered by U.S.-trained troops.”