![]() ![]() Omar’s original comments, made Monday as she questioned Secretary of State Anthony Blinken during a House hearing, were quickly becoming a major political headache for Democrats. That clarification appeared to satisfy Pelosi and her team, who said in their Thursday statement: “We welcome the clarification by Congresswoman Omar that there is no moral equivalency between the U.S. “I was in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries with well-established judicial systems,” said Omar, a Somali refugee. In her clarification, Omar, a progressive Minnesota Democrat and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, explained that her original comments had focused on ongoing International Criminal Court probes - “not a moral comparison between Hamas and the Taliban and the U.S. ![]() and Israel and groups that engage in terrorism like Hamas and the Taliban foments prejudice and undermines progress toward a future of peace and security for all,” the statement adds. “But drawing false equivalencies between democracies like the U.S. And indeed, such criticism is essential to the strength and health of our democracies,” the Democratic leadership team said in its statement. “Legitimate criticism of the policies of both the United States and Israel is protected by the values of free speech and democratic debate. The joint statement by Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.), Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Vice Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) came after Omar responded to a request from a dozen Jewish House Democrats to “clarify” what she meant in her original remarks. and Israel to those by the Taliban and Hamas terrorist groups. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) remarks equating war crimes committed by the U.S. With a rare joint statement, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her entire leadership team on Thursday sought to quell a growing controversy over Rep.
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