(LA Daily News) Hundreds of protesters gathered outside a fundraising event in Woodland Hills Saturday, where Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar spoke at the Council [on] American-Islamic Relations of Greater Los Angeles’ fourth annual Valley Banquet.
The freshman Democrat, one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, drew scorn from many Jewish and Republican circles with a tweet in early February that said “It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” in reference to the support U.S. lawmakers have traditionally offered to Israel.
The remark was criticized by some — including Omar’s Democratic colleagues in the House of Representatives — as anti-Semitic.
Omar later apologized, saying “anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes.”
