As Twitchy told you yesterday, Rep. Ilhan Omar dedicated a hefty chunk of her Twitter feed to obsessing about AIPAC and Israel’s obsession with her. She managed to squeeze plenty of lies in there as well. Along with these words of wisdom:
To confront hate and bigotry in all its forms, we must understand that they are all related. We cannot call out one form of hate while turning a blind eye to another.
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) March 26, 2019
And Omar’s comms and strategy guy Jeremy Slevin — who boasts in his Twitter bio that he used to work for Keith Ellison — would just like to add something:
Anti-semitism is a right-wing force Anti-semitism is a right-wing force Anti-semitism is a right-wing force Anti-semitism is a right-wing force Anti-semitism is a right-wing force Anti-semitism is a right-wing force Anti-semitism is a right-wing force Anti-semitism is a right-win https://t.co/IbISMS7lXU
— Jeremy Slevin (@jeremyslevin) March 26, 2019
OK, buddy.
This guy is bucking for a blue check. https://t.co/aMJlJ4x8b2
— L. Ron Buttload (@IButtload) March 27, 2019
hey maybe if you repeat it ten more times it will suddenly be true https://t.co/ps9zZiajrw
— Esoteric Jeff (@EsotericCD) March 27, 2019
Sir, this is a Victoria's Secret. https://t.co/Ve2TcD5Cdg
— Christoph Waltz's side piece (@pipandbaby) March 27, 2019
Snort.
But let’s hear him out:
Since the right is now trying to label me an anti-Semite: https://t.co/1tW9DlzwSd
— Jeremy Slevin (@jeremyslevin) March 27, 2019
I am Jewish and my family also fled Russia. I am well aware of Soviet persecution.
My tweet was referring to the United States (which I should have made clear). I also don’t view the Soviet Union as progressive in any meaningful way.
— Jeremy Slevin (@jeremyslevin) March 27, 2019
That’s nice, Jeremy, but “The Right” is just calling you out for defending a well known anti-Semite by trying to pin anti-Semitism on the right wing.
Lol Jeremy. You work for Ilhan. https://t.co/cKepSmdnkM
— Jessica Fletcher (@heckyessica) March 27, 2019
Said the Comms guy for the Congressional Democrat antisemite https://t.co/y7zY0QwcBP
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) March 27, 2019
Dude works for Ilhan Omar, and before that, for longtime Louis Farrakhan acolyte Keith Ellison. But other than that, his little chant is super compelling! https://t.co/ZBkkvmphn1
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 27, 2019
Well, with Slevin in charge of strategy, it’s really no wonder Ilhan Omar keeps sticking her anti-Semitic foot in her mouth.
Yes, we know you and your boss like to pretend antisemitism from the left doesn’t count or matter.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) March 27, 2019
Way to openly prove that you only care about bigotry when it comes from your political opponents. Explains a lot.
— Corie Whalen (@CorieWhalen) March 27, 2019
It really does.
Sure sure. Bunch of right wingers committing hate crimes against Jews in NYC. ? https://t.co/0koE8p8LiQ
— Harold Stickeehans (@StickeeNotes) March 27, 2019
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— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) March 27, 2019
So, Marx, Engels, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Charles Fourier, Wilhelm Marr, Adolf Stocker, Georg Ritter von Schonerer, Joseph Stalin, Ulrike Meinhof, Jeremy Corbyn: rightwingers all! https://t.co/s5NwUxS0Zu
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) March 27, 2019
How about “anti-Semitism is always wrong”? Would that have been so difficult to say? That’s a rhetorical question, of course. When you work for Ilhan Omar, you can’t sincerely condemn anti-Semitism.
This guy works for @IlhanMN. Note the implication of this (false, antisemitism spans the political spectrum) statement: @IlhanMN is not right-wing, so she can't be antisemitic. This is the sort of crap American Jews are going to deal with as the Dems lurch toward Corbynization. https://t.co/R6XOVL5ezB
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) March 27, 2019
"I'm ignorant of history. I'm ignorant of history. I'm ignorant of history. I'm ignorant of history." https://t.co/fmuNQNGqGX
— RBe (@RBPundit) March 27, 2019
You could’ve just stopped at “I’m ignorant.”
This from Ilhan Omar's comms guy is deeply misguided.
I've reported on anti-Semitism for years across continents. It's not a Muslim problem, a Christian problem, a left problem or a right problem. It's a human problem.
Anyone telling you otherwise needs to educate themselves. https://t.co/2QO8zdduFk
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) March 27, 2019
The truth about anti-Semitism, as @Yair_Rosenberg and others have already pointed out this morning, is that it is neither a left- OR a right-wing force. It's a *human* stain. It merely recreates itself in different images over time and circumstance.
— Esoteric Jeff (@EsotericCD) March 27, 2019
Well said. Unfortunately, tools like Slevin and bigots like Ilhan Omar are only making that stain worse.
If anyone had doubts about the dishonesty of @ilhan ’s apologies, just check out the propaganda being spewed by her comms guy.
This is not what it looks like when you want to heal. https://t.co/TT7VuFTtnb— David Hazony (@davidhazony) March 27, 2019
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