Days before an election, with Minnesotans voting on crime, prices and the future of their neighborhoods, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar had to decide who she would stand beside. She chose the far-left streamer, Hasan Piker.
This is a man who said “America deserved 9/11.” He called Hamas “a thousand times better” than Israel and said he would vote for Hamas “every single time.” He called Orthodox Jews “inbred,” waved off Hamass treatment of women and gay people as domestic policy he doesnt care about, and warned this summer that if American Jews keep supporting Israel, someone “is going to come around and take action.”
Omar knew all of it. Everyone did.
Before Monday night, when she appeared for a live conversation and Q&A event in Minneapolis titled “I’m the Host Now!”, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas called her decision to participate “a betrayal of Jewish Minnesotans.” Her district includes St. Louis Park, long the center of Jewish life in this state. Her own partys Jewish caucus said Pikers brand of hate has no place in Minnesota. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, called his statements reckless and unacceptable. Rep. Angie Craig, Rep. Betty McCollum, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, and state Sen. Ron Latz all spoke out. Democratic leaders privately urged her to cancel.
Omars answer? Her campaign said the Democratic Party is a “big tent” â and she walked out on stage on Oct. 26, anyway.
Once there,
ILHAN OMAR’S RADICAL STREAMER ALLY RALLIES WITH EMBATTLED LAWMAKER AFTER DC HOME RAID
Lets be clear about what this was. Not an old clip dug up by an opposition researcher. Not a careless remark from a decade ago. It was a deliberate decision, made over the objections of her own party and her own Jewish constituents, at an event built to turn out votes, hosted by state Sen. Omar Fateh, a <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twincitiesdsa.org/2020/04/endorsed-candidate-profile-omar-fateh-for-
