Would Ilhan Omar Give a Damn About Elliott Abrams If He Wasn't Jewish?

Scarcely 48 hours after apology for anti-Semitic tweets, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar made waves on Capitol Hill by going after Elliott Abrams, President Trump's special envoy in Venezuela while testifying before the House Foreign Relations Committee.

But instead of questioning Abrams about Venezuela (or anything at all), Omar did some grandstanding attacking Abrams for his foreign policy involvement in Latin America during the Reagan Administration specifically in El Salvador, Guatemala and in the Iran-Contra affair (for which Abrams did plead guilty to withholding information to Congress in 1991).

Of course, these are reasonable grounds for questions. But again Omar didn't ask Abrams any questions; she engaged in demagoguery. She ought to have been ruled out of order. If only Nancy Pelosi had stripped her of her committee responsibilities instead of settling for an apology she didn't mean.

Given Omar's anti-Semitic tweets, I doubt she would give a damn about incidents in Central America that occurred when she was in diapers if Abrams wasn't Jewish.

I have a feeling Abrams won't be the last Jew she will publicly excoriate from her platform on the House Foreign Relations Committee.