Rep. Ilhan Omar, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, took to Twitter to apologize for a 2012 tweet in which she said that “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. #Gaza #Palestine #Israel.”

At the time, Omar was a nutrition coordinator with the Minnesota Department of Education. Even though she is just a first-year federal lawmaker, Omar now sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

New York Times Op-ed Criticizes Omar

On Monday, Jan. 21, New York Times opinion editor and writer Bari Weiss criticized Omar for the seven-year-old tweet and answers she gave to CNN last week about the tweet.

“That’s a really regrettable way of expressing that,” Omar told CNN’s Poppy Harlow. “I don’t know how my comments would be offensive to Jewish Americans. My comments precisely are addressing what was happening during the Gaza War and I’m clearly speaking about the way the Israeli regime was conducting itself in that war.” Read More

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