(Jewish Group) Split-Screen Reaction Over Omar's Op-Ed

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(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

She hit upon third-rail stereotypes so sensitive to the Jewish community that they seemed lifted from medieval tracts or BDS manifestos: Jews aren’t loyal to the country they live in, they buy off politicians and Israel “has hypnotized the world” into overlooking its “evil doings.”

And along the way, in only a few months’ time, Ilhan Omar, the freshman Congress member from Minneapolis with the stylish hijabs, has become a lightning rod.

For many of those on the Jewish right, she is a vivid symbol of all that’s wrong with the Democratic Party when it comes to Israel — that progressives like her are pushing the party too far left in their criticisms of the Jewish state. Her Jewish colleagues in the House blasted her tweets about Jews and money, dual loyalty and AIPAC’s hold over politicians as anti-Semitic. And some of her Jewish supporters back home in Minnesota’s diverse 5th Congressional District began to distance themselves from her.

Yet, some Jewish progressives stood by her, arguing that she was being singled out for being Muslim and an immigrant, that the real anti-Semitism was coming from the white supremacist right and that her views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the role of money in politics deserved a wider hearing in a Congress they believe is blindly pro-Israel.

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