To the editor:
Unlike Michelle Goldberg, who is unhappy about rising star Ilhan Omar's antisemitic tweets primarily because she views them as a "gift to the right," I'm hopeful they will help people become skeptical about the constant harsh criticism of Israel. More and more, it become impossible to deny that this generally unfair criticism is largely fueled by thinly veiled antisemitism.
This tweet was just the latest in a string of "learning experiences" for Omar. Even in her "unequivocal" apology she doubled down on her criticism of AIPAC and she subsequently retweeted an offensive tweet of one of her supporters. We now learn she is scheduled to keynote a conference for an organization even Sweden named as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood, sharing the stage with blatant antisemite Yousef Abdallah, who according to a Jerusalem Post article shared a "beautiful" story about martyrs providing guns to "kill more than 20 Jews" and who referred to Jews as "stinking." I find it impossible to consider Omar's apology sincere.
That Omar is now on the powerful House Foreign Relations Committee is both shameful and frightening.
Sincerely,
Alan Stein