“You only go after women of color in the United States.” Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not hide her outrage Thursday after a fellow Democrat was ousted from a major House committee.
Ilhan Omar, a Democrat-elect and representative of Minnesota in the United States Congress, was the subject of an expulsion motion from the Foreign Affairs Committee after being accused of having made anti-Semitic comments in the past. An unjustified decision for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who criticizes with this eviction “the stigma and racism suffered by American Muslims”, a “horrible legacy of 9/11”.
“What is happening here is proof of that,” he declared before the House of Representatives.
Revenge of the Republican Party?
The expulsion of certain elected Democrats from parliamentary committees was a promise made by Kevin McCarthy during his campaign to become the new “spokesperson” of the House of Representatives. According to the Republican, Democrats created a “new normal” when they gained control of Congress by expelling the highly controversial Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar from certain committees, accusing them of calling for violence against their political opponents.
Republican lawmakers gave the reasons for their decision to expel Ilhan Omar for her critical comments against the State of Israel. A justification that did not convince Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, highlighting the inconsistency of the elected Republicans and alluding to the precedent Marjorie Taylor Greene.
“You have a member of your caucus who talked about ‘Jewish space lasers,’” the New York representative said of the Republican representative.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reaffirmed that it was above all – through the expulsion of Ilhan Omar from the commission – to punish American women of color: “Don’t tell me no, because I have not received the slightest apology from you when he received threats.
Three elected Democrats stripped of their seats
The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a motion to expel Democratic MP Ilhan Omar from a powerful committee. Republicans accuse him of making anti-Semitic comments in the past, while Democrats say the decision comes in retaliation for other ousters in the previous legislature.
Ilhan Omar is the third Democrat-elect to be stripped of her House committee seat by Republicans this year.
“I am a Muslim, I am an immigrant and, luckily, I come from Africa,” declared the elected representative of the party’s left wing, during a speech on the floor of Congress, before the eviction vote. , asking if “anyone was surprised” that she was being targeted.
According to House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Ilhan Omar’s comments had already been the subject of proper disciplinary proceedings. “It’s political revenge,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
