(CNN) Top House Democratic leaders condemned GOP Rep. Randy Fine and demanded that he apologize after the Florida lawmaker suggested in a post on X that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is a terrorist.
Fine was replying to an X post from Omar on Tuesday, in which she said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “should be held accountable for his crimes,” and, “war criminals should not be welcomed by any president or Congress,” after Netanyahu met with House Speaker Mike Johnson.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last year for Netanyahu, Israel’s former defense minister, and a senior Hamas official, accusing them of war crimes during and after the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel. The prime minister’s office has dismissed the warrants as antisemitic.
