House Republicans have voted to remove Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and many other Republicans, and even some Democrats, pinned their push for her removal on claims that her criticisms of Israel amount to antisemitism.
In 2019, Mr McCarthy, then the House minority leader, said he hoped to sanction Ms Omar and Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the first two Muslim female members of Congress, for their previous comments about Israel. That came after the House condemned then-representative Steve King after he made racist remarks and removed him from his committees in an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote.
