Omar blasts Netanyahu for spending longer on her in AIPAC speech than on Pittsburgh shooting

(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for devoting more time to her than to anti-Semitic violence in his speech to a pro-Israel conference.

Omar has been a frequent target at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference this year, with attendees including Vice President Mike Pence, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) all taking shots at her without mentioning her name.

Omar responded Tuesday to a tweet from journalist Nathan Guttman noting that Netanyahu had devoted more time in his AIPAC address to Omar than to the 2018 mass shooting in Pittsburgh, when a white nationalist killed 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue.

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