Omar Issues ‘Clarification’ After Comparing US, Israel to Hamas

Rep Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) attends a concert at the George Floyd Square on the first anniversary of Floyd's death, in Minneapolis, Minn., on May 25, 2021. Nicholas Pfosi/Reuters

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Thursday issued a statement after furor that she compared the United States and Israel to the terrorist groups Hamas and the Taliban.

“On Monday, I asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken about ongoing International Criminal Court investigations. To be clear: the conversation was about accountability for specific incidents regarding those ICC cases, not a moral comparison between Hamas and the Taliban and the U.S. and Israel. I was in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries with well-established judicial systems,” she wrote.