Why Are Some Jewish Organizations Pretending Ilhan Omar Isn't Anti-Semitic?

This past week several left-wing Jewish organizations saw fit to come to the defense of Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar over plans by presumptive incoming Speaker Kevin McCarthy to strip Omar of her committee assignments over her anti-Semitic views. 

Before I get into the substance or lack thereof of their defense of Omar, I have argued that McCarthy's plan is flawed because he only targets Omar when there have been other members of Congress who have expressed anti-Semitic sentiments on both sides of the aisle be it Rashida Tlaib or Marjorie Taylor-Greene. In the case of the latter, McCarthy intends to restore Greene's committee assignments which render his concerns of anti-Semitism as disingenuous. I also suspect that targeting Omar will augment her influence as Greene's influence was augmented when Democrats stripped her of committee assignments.

While these Jewish organizations (among them J Street, the New Israel Fund and Americans for Peace Now) rightly take McCarthy to task for ignoring anti-Semitism in their own ranks, these aforementioned groups are guilty of the same when it comes to Omar. These groups stated:

As Jewish American organizations, we oppose House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s pledge to strip Representative Ilhan Omar of her House Foreign Affairs Committee seat based on false accusations that she is antisemitic or anti-Israel.

False accusations?

Omar has, among other things, questioned the loyalty of American Jews, championed the BDS Movement (while opposing sanctions against Turkey and Russia) and compared Israel to Nazi Germany. If these aren't acts of anti-Semitism or anti-Israel sentiment then what is?

Mind you, Omar is perfectly happy to attend the World Cup in Qatar and brush off questions on its human rights record.

What this tells me is that these specific Jewish organizations are only concerned about anti-Semitism when it comes from right-wing sources but turn a blind eye to it among their own. In this respect, they are just as bad as right-wing Jewish figures and organizations who decry left-wing anti-Semitism but defend and make excuses for defeated, former President Trump despite supping with Holocaust deniers (i.e. Zionist Organization of America President Morton Klein and Torah Umesorah). But it is worse than that because by pretending Ilhan Omar isn't anti-Semitic and anti-Israel they help to legitimize and mainstream anti-Semitism. 

In the case of left-wing Jewish organizations is it as simple as partisan politics? Or is it also a question of identity politics and intersectionalism? Do these organizations not wish to condemn Omar for fear of being accused of racism and Islamophobia? If this is the case then what we have is a simple case of cowardice and outright lies because there are no false accusations when it comes to Ilhan Omar on the question of anti-Semitism. Alas, we have a critical mass of Jewish organizations who would rather Jews be murdered than confront anti-Semitism looking at them in the eye. Shame on them.