AOC: Omar Ouster “Racist Target”

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 program Thursday that House Republicans voting to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the Foreign Relations Committee because of her comments about Israel were “racist targets”. “.

Guest host John Berman said: “Rep. Omar said today’s vote was about revenge. Is that how you see it?”

Ocasio-Cortez said: “Absolutely, I think it was revenge. It was about petty politics. But it’s also, I think it’s also important to state that it wasn’t just about Republicans trying to feed racism, misogyny, xenophobia, Islamophobia to the base they’ve been feeding under Donald Trump for years. It also represents the deprivation of an important look at the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which represents Ilhan Omar as a refugee, as an immigrant, as the only hijab-wearing woman in the United States Congress. And that perspective is crucial in terms of American foreign policy.”