Rep. Ilhan Omar dismissed a reporter asking her to comment on the deadly shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum overnight.
The pro-Palestinian congresswoman when asked about the tragedy brushed-off of the reporter’s query.
‘Congresswoman Omar, can I get your reaction to the shooting that happened in DC last night?’ a reporter asked outside the Capitol on Thursday morning.
The progressive Minnesota representative responded nonchalantly as she was walking: ‘I’m going to go for now.’
She then briskly walked away from the cameras and reporters.
Overnight, a gunman targeted a Young Diplomat event in Washington, D.C. that members of the Israeli Embassy were attending. He shot a young couple who were set to be engaged.
Israeli Embassy staffer Yaron Lischinsky and his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim, who worked in the public diplomacy department at the embassy, were killed in the devastating attack on Wednesday night.
Omar, a Somali refugee, is one of the most outspoken on Capitol Hill in support of Palestinians amid the ingoing war with Israel.
Despite her refusal to comment on the tragedy, other Pro-Palestinian members of what was once the ‘progressive squad’ were more willing to call out the act of terrorism.
“The murder of two Israeli embassy staff outside an AJC Global event in DC is unconscionable and unacceptable,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) wrote on X early Thursday morning.
She added: “Our freedoms and our destinies are truly tied. I’m praying for the victims, their loved ones, and everyone impacted.”
Since getting into office, Omar has faced widespread criticism for sharing anti-Israel sentiments and pushing tropes insulting to Jewish people.
Back in 2019, Omar was forced to apologize for her a string of comments seen as insulting, insensitive and downright anti-Semitic.
In a tweet at the time, the then-freshman congresswoman linked support for Israel to financial contributions by writing: ‘It’s all about the Benjamins.’
She was accused of using the Puff Daddy song line to call up a harmful stereotype of Jewish Americans.
After a phone call with Democratic leadership, Omar apologized for using old anti-Semitic tropes about Jews and money.
‘Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,’ Omar said in a statement at the time.
‘My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole,’ she added. ‘We have to always be willing to step back and think through criticism, just as I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity. This is why I unequivocally apologize.’