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Ilhan Omar: GOP calls to put student protesters on terror watch list ‘insanely dangerous’

Raw Story Julia Conley May 1st, 2024 U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar on Tuesday urged her colleagues to condemn the latest Republican threat against the thousands of university students and faculty who have protested U.S. complicity in Israel’s assault on Gaza, after Sen. Marsha Blackburn suggested the protesters have “promoted terrorism” and called for them to be surveilled by […]

Marsha Blackburn Clashes With Ilhan Omar, Says ‘History Won’t Be On The Side Of Antisemitic Protestors’

The Daily Wire Daniel Chaitin May 1st, 2024 On Tuesday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) traded barbs over the protests that have sprouted up at U.S. colleges in response to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The exchange began with Omar, a member of the leftist “Squad,” sharing on X a screen grab of a post from Blackburn […]

Ilhan Omar attacks Sen. Blackburn’s ‘dangerous stance’ on Columbia protesters

The Jerusalem Post Jerusalem Post Staff May 1st, 2024 United States Rep. Ilhan Omar, in a Tuesday X post, critiqued Senator Marsha Blackburn’s stance that students encouraging or committing acts of terror on behalf of Hamas should be put on both a terrorism watchlist and the US’s No Fly List. Blackburn posted on X that […]