“Islamophobia needs to be included” in the anti-Semitism resolution, she told reporters on Wednesday. There is no hierarchy of hurt.”The closed-door meeting, the weekly gathering of House Democrats at the Capitol, generally involves discussion of the legislative agenda and political strategy. Instead, according to multiple people present, it turned into a gripe session over the treatment of Ms. Omar by her own party. “We are all responsible for what we say, and there are consequences, whether it is this resolution or something else,” Mr. Grijalva said. (Ms. Omar, who has been facing accusations of anti-Semitic bias for weeks, has herself been the target of Islamophobic attacks, including a death threat in Minnesota.)

Source: New York Times March 06, 2019 20:43 UTC