{"id":398648,"date":"2019-03-09T01:05:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T00:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/i-know-what-hate-feels-like\/"},"modified":"2019-03-09T01:05:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T00:05:36","slug":"i-know-what-hate-feels-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/i-know-what-hate-feels-like\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know What Hate Feels Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span><span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong><span> <\/span>The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Thursday condemning anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim discrimination, white supremacy and other forms of hate. The vote was 407 to 23, with nearly two dozen Republicans voting against it.<\/p>\n<p>The vote capped a week of intense debate among congressional Democrats that began after some lawmakers accused Democratic Congressmember Ilhan Omar of invoking anti-Semitic tropes while questioning U.S. foreign policy on Israel. At an event last week, Congressmember Omar said, quote, \u201cI want to talk about political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country.\u201d Democrat Eliot Engel, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on which Ilhan Omar sits, as well, then accused Omar of making a, quote, \u201cvile anti-Semitic slur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House leadership initially drafted a resolution condemning anti-Semitism in what was seen as a direct rebuke of Omar. But many progressive Democrats [said] Omar, who is one of the first two Muslim congresswomen in U.S. history, was unfairly being singled out. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders wrote, \u201cWe must not equate anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the right-wing, Netanyahu government in Israel.\u201d New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, \u201cIncidents like these do beg the question: where are the resolutions against homophobic statements? For anti-blackness? For xenophobia? For a member saying he\u2019ll \u2018send Obama home to Kenya?\u2019\u201d Key members of the Congressional Black Caucus also questioned the treatment of Omar.<\/p>\n<p>The split within the Democratic Party forced the leadership to withdraw its initial anti-Semitism resolution and present a much broader one. Congressmember Ilhan Omar voted for and praised the new resolution. She issued a joint statement with fellow Muslim lawmakers Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Andr\u00e9 Carson of Indiana, saying, quote, \u201cWe are tremendously proud to be part of a body that has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/ilhan-omar-in-her-own-words-i-know-what-hate-feels-like\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMY GOODMAN: The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Thursday condemning anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim discrimination, white supremacy and other forms of hate. The vote was 407 to 23, with nearly two dozen Republicans voting against it. The vote capped a week of intense debate among congressional Democrats that began after some lawmakers accused Democratic Congressmember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}