Yemeni bodegas to boycott New York Post over Ilhan Omar front page

Published April 13, 2019 10:05pm ET



The Yemeni American Merchants Association announced this week its push to have thousands of New York City’s bodegas boycott the New York Post after the paper published a front page rebuking Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

In a letter, the organization wrote that the criticism that the Minnesota Democrat faces over the comments incite divisiveness and vitriolic invective against Muslims in the U.S., adding that New York as a community should not stand for that kind of religious attack.

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