(JTA) Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on her first day on the job as a congresswoman, posted a list of firsts that her class represents.
“The #116thCongress has SO much to be proud of,” Omar said Thursday on Twitter.
Among them, naturally enough, is what she and her colleague, Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., represent — the first Muslim women elected to Congress. But there’s a glaring error: Omar, who was born in Somalia, lists herself as the first refugee elected to the body.
Seffi Kogen, the global director of young leadership for the American Jewish Committee, counts at least four other lawmakers who in their lifetimes had refugee status, and two of them are Jewish.
