Rabbis want Pelosi to pull Omar from House Foreign Affairs Committee

Over 200 rabbis are calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her inflammatory remarks that have split moderates and progressives.

In a letter dated Wednesday to Pelosi (D-Calif.), the Coalition of Jewish Values reiterated their insistence that the top ranking House Democrat pull Omar (D-Minn.) from the powerful Foreign Affairs panel in the wake of her latest controversy. “We warned that failure to both declare Rep. Omar’s statements ‘beyond the realm of civil discourse’ and reverse her committee appointment would send the message to the world that you were ‘tolerating this hatred in the Democratic party,'” the rabbis, led by CJV President Pesach Lerner, began by pointing out.