said Sunday that House Democrats were trying to protect Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) with last week’s resolution broadly denouncing hate, as a Democratic co-author of the measure pushed back, arguing that “history is going to judge” those who voted against it. Democrats had introduced the resolution in an effort to move past alleged anti-Semitic comments by Omar, a freshman Muslim congresswoman. He called the measure the most powerful anti-Semitism resolution “in the history of the United States Congress” and argued that those who opposed it were wrong to do so. After last week’s vote, Omar issued a statement with fellow Muslim Reps. André Carson (D-Ind.) Asked about concerns among House Democrats that naming Omar would have made her a target of more threats in the future, Cheney argued that Democratic leaders were nonetheless “enabling anti-Semitism” by crafting a broad resolution.

Source: Washington Post March 10, 2019 17:38 UTC