JERUSALEM POST
Ilhan Omar: ‘No way in hell’ attending Herzog speech to Congress
Lahav Harkov
July 13, 2023

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Jamaal Bowman will not attend the joint address to both houses of the US Congress by President Herzog next week, they said on Thursday. “There is no way in hell I am attending the joint session address from a president whose country has banned me and denied Rashida Tlaib the ability to see her grandma,” Omar wrote in a lengthy Twitter thread that was partly in all-capital letters. The Congresswoman referred to a 2019 decision not to let her and her colleague from Michigan into Israel under a law allowing the government to bar the entry of advocates of boycotting the Jewish State. The organization that planned their trip, Miftah, includes members that supported terrorism against Israel. The NGO published the blood libel on its website, in an article claiming that Jews use the blood of Christians in their Passover rituals. READ MORE

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