ADL to Ilhan Omar: Apologize for ‘blood libel’ April 28, 2024 Rep. Ilhan Omar on Capitol Hill, Jan. 8, 2020. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)(AP/Jose Luis Magana)ADL to Ilhan Omar: Apologize for ‘blood libel’ Tweet WhatsApp Email https://worldisraelnews.com/adl-to-ilhan-omar-apologize-for-blood-libel/ Email Print Rep. Ilhan Omer wrote that she was proud of her daughter Hirsi’s arrest and suspension from Barnard for her ‘stand against genocide.’By JNSThe head of the Anti-Defamation League on Saturday called on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to apologize after she accused some Jewish students of being “pro-genocide” in a statement on antisemitism.“It is patently false and a blood libel to suggest that ANY Jewish students are ‘pro-genocide,’” ADL CEO and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted, charging Omar with putting students’ lives at risk. “It is gaslighting to impute that Jewish people are somehow at fault for being harassed and menaced with signs and slogans literally calling for their own extermination,” wrote Greenblatt.“It is abhorrent that a sitting member of Congress would slander an entire group of young people in such a cold, calculated manner,” he said. Watch this clip. It features @IlhanMN walking through @Columbia proclaiming that "Jewish students… should not have to tolerate antisemitism… whether they’re pro-genocide or anti-genocide."It is patently false and a blood libel to suggest that ANY Jewish students are… pic.twitter.com/XbP5J4VspE — Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) April 28, 2024In an interview with a local Fox News television station following a visit to the unauthorized anti-Israel protest encampment at Colombia University in Manhattan on Friday, Omar had said, “It is really unfortunate that people don’t care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe.”Read BBC commentator defends attacks against Israel by Iran and Hezbollah“We should not have to tolerate antisemitism or bigotry for all Jewish students whether they are pro-genocide or anti-genocide,” she said. The U.S. representative toured the campus together with her daughter Isra Hirsi, whom the university’s Barnard College suspended earlier this month over her involvement in the illegal student protests.Hirsi was one of more than 100 people arrested and summoned for trespassing after a group of demonstrators set up the “Gaza solidarity encampment” at Columbia to protest Israel’s war with Hamas terrorists in Gaza following the murder of some 1,200 people and the kidnapping of more than 250 men, women and children in southern Israel on Oct. 7.Omar said on April 20 that she was “enormously proud” of her daughter’s arrest and subsequent suspension, writing on X that Hirsi’s actions sought to push “her school to stand against genocide.” anti-Israel biasAnti-Israel protestIlhan Omar. Antisemitism