The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Friday that a recent comment by freshman U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who also serves on the panel, represented a "vile anti-Semitic slur," according to reports. U.S. Rep. Eliot Engle, D-N.Y., chairman of the House panel, then called on Omar to apologize for her remark, which was made at an event in Washington earlier this week. Engle issued his rebuke of her comment late Friday, saying it they amounted to a "vile anti-Semitic slur." “But it’s almost as if, every single time we say something regardless of what it is we say … we get to be labeled something. Omar was joined by three fellow Democrats in Congress: Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Pramila Jayapal of Washington state and Mark Pocan of Wisconsin.

Source: Fox News March 02, 2019 11:37 UTC