Ilhan Omar’s conduct is a pattern, a pattern lacking gratefulness for America

Published April 15, 2019 8:02pm ET



An anomaly is something that deviates from the norm. A pattern is something that repeats. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has established quite the pattern of late. In what has seemed like a perpetual cycle of insensitive gaffes or purposeful attacks on Israel and the Jewish faith, Omar has remained a smug, unabashed, and unapologetic owner of her shocking tweets and public statements.

Omar saw the justified outrage at her most recent outrageous comments and doubled-down on even more controversy. In March, she was the featured speaker at a fundraising event hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The organization has seen its own share of controversy, with the U.S. government designating the advocacy group as an unindicted co-conspirator in 2007 for providing support to Hamas, a terror organization. Since then, there’s been a litany of similarly questionable associations and actions, sidelining the militant group from meaningful advocacy or credible lobbying.

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