Former White House chief speechwriter Marc Thiessen blasts Democrats for U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s promotion to vice chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s subcommittee on Africa and global human rights issues, calling it ‘absolutely appalling.’
Thiessen, a Fox News contributor and a columnist at the Washington Post, made the comment on America’s Newsroom on Monday, calling the Congresswoman from Minnesota a virulent anti-Semite before pointing to several of her past statements.
Omar, 38, now in her second term in Congress after initially being elected in 2018 and then reelected last year, is a native of Somalia who emigrated to the U.S. with her family as a teenager.
December 17, 2020
Special Dispatch No. 9098
MEMRI To Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif: Your Claim That The Iranian Regime And Leaders Are Not Antisemitic And Do Not Seek To Annihilate Israel Is A Lie
December 17, 2020
In a December 9, 2020 interview with Arman TV, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif used an antisemitic term for Jews –
jahood in Persian.
To view the clip of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif on MEMRI TV, click here or below.
A few days later, he attempted to cover up his statement with a dishonest attack on MEMRI. On December 16, he tweeted: MEMRI has sunk to a new low in taking my prejorative [sic] usage of a word to accuse me of Antisemitism.