{"id":233,"date":"2023-02-02T15:32:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T21:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2023-02-02T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T21:34:00","slug":"republicans-boots-dem-rep-ilhan-omar-off-house-foreign-affairs-committee-for-anti-israel-remarks-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/republicans-boots-dem-rep-ilhan-omar-off-house-foreign-affairs-committee-for-anti-israel-remarks-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Boot Dem. Rep. Ilhan Omar off House Foreign Affairs Committee for Anti-Israel Remarks &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>House Republicans voted today to kick far-Left, anti-Israel Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar off the House Foreign Affairs Committee for her history of anti-Israel remarks. The vote was 218-211!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NOW &#8211; House Republicans have passed a resolution to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over past comments about Israel. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/75NlvUxvbF\">pic.twitter.com\/75NlvUxvbF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/disclosetv\/status\/1621200199606485000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The GOP-led House voted Thursday \u200bto boot&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/19\/kevin-mccarthy-says-he-will-remove-rep-ilhan-omar-from-committee-over-antisemitic-remarks\/\">Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar<\/a>&nbsp;from the Foreign Affairs Committee over her past anti-Semitic comments after a handful of Republicans once reluctant to oust her decided to support the resolution for removal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vote to yank Omar (D-Minn.) from the powerful panel after a heated floor debate broke along party lines, with 218 Republicans voting to strip her of the assignment and 211 Democrats backing their colleague. One Republican, David Joyce of Ohio, voted present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOPers cited six statements that Omar, 40, made while in office that \u201cunder the totality of the circumstances, disqualify her from serving on the Committee of Foreign Affairs,\u201d said Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll members, both Republicans and Democrats alike who seek to serve on Foreign Affairs, should be held to the highest standard of conduct due to the international sensitivity and national security concerns under the jurisdiction of this committee,\u201d Guest said. . . . <\/p>\n<cite><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/02\/rep-ilhan-omar-ousted-from-committee-over-anti-semitic-remarks\/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Via NEW YORK POST<\/strong><\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to the House vote, Omar&#8217;s far-Left, anti-Israel compatriot &#8211; Democrat Rep. Rashida Talib &#8211; threw a fit on the House Floor, trying to exceed her allotted time for speaking against the resolution to remove Omar from the Committee:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrat Rashida Tlaib, while embarrassingly screaming on live television: <br><br>Republicans \u201care showing who [they] all are\u201d by condemning Ilhan Omar\u2019s antisemitic remarks and blocking her from the Foreign Affairs Committee. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oFycCxAQRn\">pic.twitter.com\/oFycCxAQRn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1621194464063623168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans voted today to kick far-Left, anti-Israel Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar off the House Foreign Affairs Committee for her history of anti-Israel remarks. The vote was 218-211! The GOP-led House voted Thursday \u200bto boot&nbsp;Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar&nbsp;from the Foreign Affairs Committee over her past anti-Semitic comments after a handful of Republicans once reluctant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ilhan-omar","category-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}