“When someone accuses American supporters of Israel of dual loyalty, I say: accuse me,” the House Majority Leader told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s conference.
By Paul Kane Paul Kane Senior congressional correspondent and columnist Email Bio Follow March 24 at 6:44 PM House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer delivered a strong defense Sunday of the U.S.-Israel alliance and directed a thinly veiled rebuke to a fellow Democrat whose remarks sparked charges of anti-Semitism that roiled the party’s new majority.
This month, Omar suggested Israel’s supporters are motivated by political donations and have “allegiance” to a foreign country, sparking a messy public reckoning over anti-Semitism. That led to several days of heated debate among Democrats about whether to condemn those remarks, before they eventually reached a compromise on a broadly worded resolution that condemned many forms of hate.
The organization’s annual Washington gathering is reviving many of the heated discussions from early March. Hoyer was the first of several top-ranking Democrats to speak to the powerful group, followed later this week by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer . He delivered some mild criticism — that the United States and Israel at times fail “to follow our own ideals” — but he said politicians do a disservice to that by using tropes about Jews and money. In early February Omar suggested that U.S. politicians had a loyalty to AIPAC that was “about the Benjamins.”
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