A Muslim congresswoman deleted a tweet that criticized the Catholic high school students involved in last week’s controversial confrontation with a Native American elder outside the Lincoln Memorial.

US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday night responded to a tweet from President Trump in which he defended 11th-grader Nick Sandmann and other students from Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School.

Omar wrote, “-The boys were protesting a woman’s right to choose & yelled “it’s not rape if you enjoy it” -They were taunting 5 Black men before they surrounded Phillips and led racist chants -Sandmann’s family hired a right wing PR firm to write his non-apology.”

Before Omar’s tweet was deleted, a lawyer who’s offered to represent the Covington students for free said it had defamed them.

“This is libel. Retract, or get sued,” Las Vegas attorney Robert Barnes tweeted.

Omar’s rape-related claim apparently was based on a video clip posted on Twitter by lawyer and Playboy magazine writer Amee Vanderpool, who admitted she didn’t “know if this boy attends Covington.”

A member of the House of Israel fringe religious group — known as “Black Israelites” — has also told The Post that he sparked Friday’s incident in Washington, DC, by hurling insults at the students, many of

whom were wearing Trump’s trademark “Make America Great Again” hats.

Omar, a former Somali refugee who last year became one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, deleted her tweet hours after publicly expressing regret for a 2012 tweet in which she said of conflict in the Gaza Strip, “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”

“In all sincerity, it was after my CNN interview that I heard from Jewish orgs. that my use of the word ‘Hypnotize’ and the ugly sentiment it holds was offensive,” Omar wrote in a series of tweets responding to a column by New York Times opinion writer Bari Weiss.

“It’s now apparent to me that I spent lots of energy putting my 2012 tweet in context and little energy is disavowing the anti-semitic trope I unknowingly used, which is unfortunate and offensive,” she added.