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Ilhan Omar
Trump Video Leads to More Death Threats Against Ilhan Omar Trump tweeted a misleading video of comments she made at the Council on American Islamic Relations last month.
By Madeleine Aggeler
Pelosi Requests More Security for Ilhan Omar Following Trump’s 9/11 Attack Meanwhile, Sarah Sanders said on Sunday that Trump’s Islamophobic attack was a “good thing.”
By Chas Danner
Ilhan Omar Never Stood a Chance Political attacks against the Muslim Minnesota congresswoman — culminating in one from the president — have devolved into pure Islamophobic id.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
the national interest
Apr. 10, 2019
Republicans Prove Ilhan Omar Is Right About Anti-Muslim Bigotry “You have to wonder if she is an American first,” says Fox News host who claims to be offended at dual loyalty smears.
By Jonathan Chait
stephen miller
Apr. 9, 2019
If You Are Defending Stephen Miller, You Are an Ally of Anti-Semitism Miller’s white-nationalist politics are far more dangerous for American Jews than anything Ilhan Omar has ever tweeted.
By Eric Levitz
Incredibly, the Freshman Congresswomen Keep Making C-Span Go Viral Watching Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar speak truth to power will never get old.
By Amanda Arnold
identity politics
Mar. 25, 2019
The GOP’s Cynical New Identity-Politics Play Senate Republicans are looking to back bills that rebuke anti-Semitism — despite their own party’s complicity in anti-Semitic violence.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
Ilhan Omar Tests the Democratic Party. Will It Pass? Democrats like Omar aren’t nihilists. They have taken a great chance on the party and its capacity for self-reflection.
By Sarah Jones
donald trump
Mar. 8, 2019
Trump’s Claim That Democrats Are an ‘Anti-Jewish Party’ Is Absurd His reaction to the Ilhan Omar controversy ignores a century of strongly pro-Democratic Jewish sentiment, which continues today.
By Ed Kilgore
interesting times
Mar. 8, 2019
How Should We Talk About the Israel Lobby’s Power? Representative Ilhan Omar failed to address it effectively. But it’s a legitimately difficult thing to do.
By Andrew Sullivan
the national interest
Mar. 7, 2019
By Jonathan Chait
Ilhan Omar Is a Convenient Republican Target The party is hoping to distract attention from their own and their president’s extremism.
By Ed Kilgore
4 Reasons Republicans Are Keeping the Heat on Ilhan Omar Omar is a convenient target for Republicans hoping to distract attention from their own and their president’s extremism.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats’ Split Over Ilhan Omar’s Israel Comments: What You Need to Know After much debate, Democrats will vote Thursday on a resolution to condemn hate in all forms.
By Adam K. Raymond
Intelligencer Chat: The Ilhan Omar Mess Debating the Merits of a Democratic Resolution Against Anti-Semitism
By Benjamin Hart
Steve Scalise Delivers the GOP’s Most Cynical Ilhan Omar Rebuke Yet Scalise admitted to attending a white supremacist event in 2002. Now he is lecturing Americans about national security and anti-Semitism.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
Ilhan Omar Has a Less Bigoted Position on Israel Than Almost All Other Democrats Making tone-deaf remarks about dual allegiances is bad. Supporting de facto apartheid rule in the West Bank is much, much worse.
By Eric Levitz
Conservatives Use Free Speech As a Shield to Defend Bigotry A Republican delegate in West Virginia claimed that the Islamophobic Ilhan Omar poster was about “free speech.” It wasn’t.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
the national interest
Mar. 5, 2019
By Jonathan Chait
islamophobia
Mar. 1, 2019
Islamophobic Poster of Ilhan Omar Roils West Virginia Capitol An employee resigned and another was reportedly sent to the hospital after an Islamophobic picture was placed in the West Virginia Capitol rotunda.
By Matt Stieb
the national interest
Feb. 28, 2019
Ilhan Omar Accuses Israel Hawks of ‘Allegiance to a Foreign Country’ After skirting around anti-Semitism a few weeks ago, Omar goes all in.
By Jonathan Chait
Area Criminal Shocked by Congresswoman Who Cites His Crimes Out Loud Special Envoy to Venezuela Elliott Abrams wasn’t pleased when Ilhan Omar called him out for supporting a Salvadoran regime that massacred civilians.
By Sarah Jones
Mike Pence Makes Strong Case for Donald Trump’s Resignation The vice-president argued Tuesday night that “those who engage in anti-Semitic tropes” have no place in our politics.
By Eric Levitz
Everything to Know About Ilhan Omar’s Israel Controversy On Tuesday, Trump called on the congresswoman to resign.
By Amanda Arnold
The Christian Right, Not AIPAC, Drives the GOP’s Pro-Israel Stance Whether or not Ilhan Omar’s claim of vast AIPAC power has anything to do with anti-Semitism, it’s just not accurate, and helps her enemies.
By Ed Kilgore
false equivalence
Feb. 8, 2019
McCarthy Demands Democrats Treat Two Muslim Members As Bigots Like Steve King It’s a twofer for Republicans seeking to undermine Jewish Democratic allegiances while pleasing conservative evangelicals.
By Ed Kilgore
state of the union
Feb. 5, 2019
The Guests to Look Out for at the State of the Union Trump’s former housekeepers, migrant families who were separated at the border, and more.
By Amanda Arnold
The New Face of Power Officially Takes Control Today The 116th Congress will be the most diverse set of lawmakers in history.
By Kimberly Truong
Your Cool New Congresswomen Are Already Hanging Out It’s okay to say #squadgoals without irony about this Instagram.
By Opheli Garcia Lawler
a woman’s place is in the house
Aug. 15, 2018
By Sarah Nechamkin
2018 elections
Aug. 15, 2018
Primary Results: Dems Embrace Diversity, GOP Pulls Closer to Trump As Democrats nominated several candidates whose win in November would be a historic first, Republicans continued rejecting their pre-Trump past.
By Margaret Hartmann
