Ilhan Omar posts tweet tear after becoming AIPAC conference target

Published March 26, 2019 7:46pm ET



Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., responded on Twitter with a 14-tweet thread after she, and her controversial comments about Jews and the role of Israel in American politics, became a central theme in the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington this week.

“We are not even 6 months out from the Pittsburgh massacre. We are not even 2 weeks out from the Christchurch massacre. Yet the topic Netanyahu chose to focus on was…me,” the freshman congresswoman tweeted.

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