(Forward) Rep. Ilhan Omar plans to join the new Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations, a spokesman confirmed to the Forward on Thursday.
Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, had already praised the creation of the group on Twitter. “Last month, [Rep. Jan Schakowsky] and I joined together to talk about the common threat of white nationalism faced by Muslim, black and Jewish-Americans,” she wrote on Wednesday, linking to their joint CNN op-ed. “Glad to see colleagues follow through in working on the things that unite us and not divide us.”
The black-Jewish caucus was announced on Monday at the annual convention of the American Jewish Committee.
