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The latest group to be offended by Ilhan Omar's comments? Hamas

While thanking Omar for taking positions the terror group views as favorable on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Hamas said her comparison was "unacceptable" and "unfair."

by  JNS and ILH Staff
Published on  06-13-2021 18:24
Last modified: 06-16-2021 07:51
The latest group to be offended by Ilhan Omar's comments? HamasReuters
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Hamas on Saturday criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for comparing it to the United States and Israel.

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"The remarks made by US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar are very peculiar; she equated between the victim and the executioner when she treated the resistance of the Palestinian people, the Israeli crimes in Palestine, and the US aggression in Afghanistan as an equal footing," Basem Naim, a member of Hamas' International Relations Office, said in a statement posted on the terrorist group's website.

The Hamas statement referred to a June 7 tweet by Omar, which read in part: "We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the US, Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban."

Together with her comments, she posted a video of a question she posed to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing.

While thanking Omar for taking positions the terror group views as favorable on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Hamas said her comparison was "unacceptable" and "unfair" as it contradicted "basic norms of justice and international law."

"We hope that US Rep. Ilhan Omar and all defenders of Palestinian rights make effort to provide a proper and accurate description of the situation, as this is the starting point to lay the foundations for a fair solution for this prolonged state of injustice and denial of the Palestinian people's rights," the statement said.

Last week, both Republicans and Democrats chastised Omar for the tweet, with Democrats releasing a joint statement, led by Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) and signed by 12 Jewish Democratic members of Congress, calling her statements "offensive and misguided."

Reprinted with permission from JNS.org

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