WASHINGTON – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came to the defense of fellow congressional freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar on social media as the House prepares to vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism in response to comments Omar made about Israel.

In a series of tweets on Monday and Tuesday, the New York Democrat accused lawmakers criticizing Omar of employing an inconsistent standard in their condemnation of bigotry. Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, has been accused by members of both parties of using anti-Semitic tropes in her critiques of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

"It’s not my position to tell people how to feel, or that their hurt is invalid," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

"But incidents like these do beg the question: where are the resolutions against homophobic statements? For anti-blackness? For xenophobia? For a member saying he’ll 'send Obama home to Kenya?'" she said, referring to comments Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., made in 2012.

"If House leadership is creating a standard & committing to calling a resolution for every incident ... then thats a clear way to address the issue & we can all understand," she said in another tweet. "But if they’re not, I think it’s valid to ask why not."

Ocasio-Cortez's defense of Omar began in response to a tweet from Rep. Juan Vargas, D-Calif., who said, "It is disturbing that Rep. Omar continues to perpetuate hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes that misrepresent our Jewish community. Additionally, questioning support for the U.S.-Israel relationship is unacceptable."

She asked Vargas to "further explain his stance" and said many Democratic members of Congress have said that "debate on this issue is fair and merited."

"Is this stance a departure from that?" she wondered.

"History shows that making some questions 'unacceptable' is a mistake," she said, citing the decision to go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Last month, Omar apologized for tweets she posted implying money from pro-Israel lobbying groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was responsible for stifling debate about Palestine. Critics said her comments invoked old conspiratorial stereotypes about Jewish money controlling global politics.

And last week, Omar prompted House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., to accuse her of using a "vile, anti-Semitic slur" when she suggested at a town hall event that Israel demands "allegiance" from American lawmakers. Critics said that remark played into a "myth of dual loyalty" that has long been leveled at American Jews.

After Omar's most recent comment, Democratic leaders in the House moved to introduce a resolution, which does not mention Omar by name, "condemning anti-Semitism as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values that define the people of the United States."

Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that "calling out" a member of Congress for an "insensitive" remark should be a "measure of last resort" after trying to educate he or she about why their remark was hurtful.

The House may vote on the resolution as soon as Wednesday.