[ [link removed] ]Ilhan for Congress

I wanted to reach out this morning to talk about my vote this week against H.Con.Res. 57, a congressional resolution designed by MAGA Republicans to target and shame my colleague Pramila Jayapal for comments she made about Israel for which she clarified and apologized.

Anyone who knows me knows that I explicitly and affirmatively reject xenophobia and antisemitism of any kind. Which is why I want to be perfectly clear:

Conflating criticism of the Israeli government and their human rights violations against the Palestinian people with antisemitism is wrong.

This is just the latest case of the right wing doing anything and everything — including wielding the very real problem of antisemitism in bad faith — to silence the voices of women of color who fight for justice.

It has happened repeatedly to me. It has happened repeatedly to Pramila. It has happened repeatedly to our friend Rashida Tlaib, too. Countless women around the world, particularly women of color, know this feeling.

Multiple human rights organizations — including Israel’s leading group B’Tselem, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International — have concluded that the Israeli government’s policies and actions meet the legal definition of apartheid. And while the term may be discomforting to some, what is far more discomforting is the Israeli government's repeated crimes against the people of Palestine.

I don't believe it's appropriate for Congress to be targeting the legal findings of human rights groups the way this sham resolution sought to do. And I believe the only way we can even begin to address human rights violations around the world is if we have the courage to call them what they are.

The simple fact is that we spend far too much time policing the language of Black and Brown women who speak out against oppression, and not enough time ending the oppression of Black and Brown people.

Enough is enough. As racism, sexism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, and hate in our country and around the globe are on the rise, we must come together in solidarity and defend one another from those who seek to control us with fear.

We cannot allow for the silencing of voices supporting Palestinian human rights. Our common humanity demands it.

I know that I can speak for my sisters in service when I say that none of us — no matter what our opponents throw our way — will ever give up in our movement's collective struggle for justice.

Thank you for being a part of our fight.

In solidarity,

Ilhan Omar

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