On the recordMarch 7, 2019
Let's all be honest with each other. We are here today, right now, because of anti-Semitic rhetoric from one Member of this Chamber said again and again and again. We would not be on this floor right now otherwise to discuss this topic. If that Member were a Republican, that Member's name would be in this resolution, and this resolution would be all about condemning anti- Semitism, and it would be done so forcefully. That Member in January had to apologize for talking about a hypnosis of Israel that they had over the entire world. That Member had to apologize in February for saying: If you support Israel, it must be because you are bought off by Jews. That Member called it an unequivocal apology even though she filled it with equivocation. Now we are back again this time by the Member saying that, if you support the U.S.-Israel relationship, that you must have pledged allegiance to a foreign government--except this time that Member is refusing to apologize. Even if you gave that Member every benefit of the doubt that she had no idea what she was doing, why now wouldn't she be apologizing? Why would she be more emboldened to refuse an apology altogether? I, apparently, am giving Representative Omar more credit than the Speaker is because I don't believe she is naive. I believe that she knows exactly what she is doing. It is an American value, by the way, to have reasonable, legitimate criticism of a government, whether it be the U.S.…
