(Hill) Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) doubled down on her defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Friday, telling an audience at the Economic Club that the Minnesota congresswoman is not anti-Semitic.
During an interview Friday in Washington, Pelosi reiterated her belief that Omar does not hold anti-Jewish views, and maintained that her criticism of Israel had led her to espouse language that some viewed with a second meaning.
“The incident that happened with [Omar], I don’t think our colleague is anti-Semitic,” Pelosi said Friday.
“I think she has a different experience in the use of words, doesn’t understand that some of them are fraught with meaning,” Pelosi added of the freshman Democratic congresswoman who came to the U.S. as a refugee with her family in 1995.
