GOP Leaders Slam Appointment of Boycott-Israel Supporter to House Foreign Affairs Committee

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GOP Leaders Slam Appointment of Boycott-Israel Supporter to House Foreign Affairs Committee

he House Democratic caucus has appointed, to a committee chaired by one of its most pro-Israel members, a Muslim freshman lawmaker who supports the boycott-Israel movement and has come under fire for anti-Israel tweets.

House Republican leaders called the decision “disgraceful.”

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is one of 25 newly-announced members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, its chairman Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) confirmed on Thursday, welcoming what he called a “dynamic and diverse group [that] will bring to the committee new ideas, lively debate, and a shared commitment to advancing America’s interests and values around the world.”

Eliot, formerly the committee’s ranking member, has long been one of Israel’s most ardent Democratic supporters in Congress, and has sponsored numerous pieces of pro-Israel legislation, including measures opposing the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement

Engel praised President Trump’s Dec. 2017 decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and criticized the Obama administration’s Dec. 2016 decision to abstain rather than veto a U.N. Security Council resolution that describes areas including the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City – the location of the holiest site in Judaism – as “occupied Palestinian territory.”

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/democrats-appoint-boycott-israel-supporter-house-foreign-affairs