(Free Beacon) The Anti-Defamation League released a statement Monday calling on Congress to condemn Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D., Minn.) recent anti-Semitic comments.
The group, which previously defended Omar and expressed hope she would learn, sent a letter addressed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) to request Congress take action.
ADL President Jonathan Greenblatt rejected the idea Omar was acting in “good faith” when she made her most recent anti-Semitic allegations. He described her “slur” as the reincarnation of “a vile anti-Semitic slur that has been used to harass, marginalize, and persecute the Jewish people for centuries.” In response to Omar’s actions, Greenblatt noted Pelosi and her fellow Democratic leaders previously promised “the entire Congress must be fully engaged in denouncing and rejecting all forms of hatred, racism, prejudice and discrimination wherever they are encountered.”
