(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Thursday sought to clarify controversial remarks she made earlier this week during a House hearing, saying she was not equating the U.S. and Israel with terrorist organizations.
“On Monday, I asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken about … ongoing International Criminal Court investigations. To be clear: the conversation was about accountability for specific incidents regarding those ICC cases, not a moral comparison between Hamas and the Taliban and the U.S. and Israel,” she said in a statement.
“I was in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries with well-established judicial systems,” she added.
Omar’s latest defense sought to quell outrage from fellow Democrats about her questioning of Blinken during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing.
