(Forward) Rep. Ilhan Omar declined to apologize on Tuesday for comments she made earlier this month listing the United States and Israel alongside Hamas and the Taliban as entities that needed to be held accountable for what she called “unthinkable atrocities.”
Asked by Jake Tapper of CNN whether she regretted the comments, Omar said: “I don’t.” She said she was trying to make a point about the importance of the International Criminal Court as a place of redress for “people who have experienced injustice,” and said that fellow members of Congress who criticized her for the comments “haven’t been partners in justice.”
Twelve of the 25 Jewish Democrats in the House of Representatives signed a statement, accusing Omar of “giving cover to terrorist groups” by creating “false equivalence” between legitimate government military actions and terror attacks.
