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Here's what you need to know about the attacks against Ilhan Omar


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Watch VICE News Tonight on HBO weekdays at 7:30.Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar isn’t backing down as she deals with attacks from both Republicans and members of her own party.On Sunday, the freshman Congresswoman rejected resurgent accusations of anti-Semitism against her as nothing more than attacks manufactured to silence her criticism of Israel’s right-wing government and occupation of Palestinian territories — as she also grappled with assassination threats and Islamophobic attacks against her character.In a series of tweets, 37-year-old Omar responded to outrage from her critics over comments she made at an event last week about groups that “push allegiance to a foreign country,” which the Democratic chair of the House Foreign Affairs committee characterized as a “vile anti-Semitic slur.”“I am told every day that I am anti-American if I am not pro-Israel,” she tweeted. Omar was also allegedly on a now-arrested self-avowed white nationalist’s hit list, and the FBI is investigating graffiti found in February in Minnesota that called for her assassination.Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar isn’t backing down as she deals with attacks from both Republicans and members of her own party.On Sunday, the freshman Congresswoman rejected resurgent accusations of anti-Semitism against her as nothing more than attacks manufactured to silence her criticism of Israel’s right-wing government and occupation of Palestinian territories — as she also grappled with assassination threats and Islamophobic attacks against her character.In a series of tweets, 37-year-old Omar responded to outrage from her critics over comments she made at an event last week about groups that “push allegiance to a foreign country,” which the Democratic chair of the House Foreign Affairs committee characterized as a “vile anti-Semitic slur.”“I am told every day that I am anti-American if I am not pro-Israel,” she tweeted. Both women are among the only vocal critics of Israel in Congress as well as the only two members of Congress to openly support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel for human-rights abuses in occupied territories.Here’s what you need to know about Omar’s latest controversy, the attacks against her, and her refusal to bend.Omar implied at a bookstore event in Washington last Wednesday that her critics accuse her of being an anti-Semite to attempt to shut down a legitimate debate about Israel."I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country," Omar said, according to the New York Times.The comments may seem innocuous, but Omar’s critics characterized them as an anti-Semitic assertion that Jewish people in the U.S. have a “dual loyalty” to America and Israel.Rep. Eliot Engel, the Democratic chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, harshly criticized Omar’s remarks in a statement.

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