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Let’s examine one of the GOP’s core arguments in removing Rep. Omar from
the House Foreign Affairs Committee: that criticism of the U.S. and
Israeli government’s role in the Palestinian human rights crisis — which
organizations from Human Rights Watch^1 to Amnesty International^2 are
sounding the alarm on — is equivalent to antisemitism.

It is important to recognize that this is a dangerous and false conflation
designed to threaten and prevent us from taking the matter of human rights
in the region seriously. 

Jewish members of Congress themselves, of all positions and takes on the
matter, conveyed horror at the charge of antisemitism being cynically
weaponized to silence people in this fashion and testified to Rep. Ilhan
Omar’s character. They asked the GOP to not do this in their name nor on
their community’s behalf.

It also gets to one of the actual core reasons they sought to strip Rep.
Omar of her committee assignment to Foreign Affairs: because her
experience as a refugee, Muslim, immigrant, mother, and survivor of war
gives her a unique and special credibility to challenge a U.S. foreign
policy consensus that has too often failed both Americans at home and
human beings abroad. Her presence, identity, and experience forces us to
look in the mirror and sit with our policy decisions and costs of war, and
center the victims, survivors, and those who are most impacted.

That is why it is important to show up and support in this moment, and see
this cynical political attack for what it really is: fear of inspiring a
larger shift towards accountability and transparency by everyday Americans
regarding our own foreign policy.

[ [link removed] ]If you’re able to, will you split a contribution — of $6 or any amount
you can — between our campaign and Ilhan’s so that we have the resources
required to stand up to Kevin McCarthy and his far-right Republican
allies?

Together we will continue to fight for just foreign policy that supports
human rights for all.



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In solidarity,

Alexandria

 

 

1 - [ [link removed] ]Human Rights Watch
2 - [ [link removed] ]Amnesty International


 


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