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House broadly condemns hate after anti-Semitism dispute

By LISA MASCARO and
LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press BIGOTRY
WASHINGTON (AP) — Di-
vided in debate but mostly
united in a final vote, the
House passed a resolution
condemning anti-Semitism BE GONE!
and other bigotry Thurs-
day, with Democrats trying
to push past a dispute that
has overwhelmed their
agenda and exposed fault
lines that could shadow
them through next year’s
elections.
The one-sided 407-23 vote
belied the emotional in-
fighting over how to re-
spond to freshman Rep.
Ilhan Omar’s recent com-
ments suggesting House
supporters of Israel have
dual allegiances.
For days, Democrats wres-
tled with whether or how
to punish the lawmaker, ar-
guing over whether Omar,
one of two Muslim women
in Congress, should be sin-
gled out, what other types Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., walks to the chamber Thursday, March 7, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, as the House was preparing
of bias should be decried to vote on a resolution to speak out against, as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said, “anti-Semitism, anti-Islamophobia, anti-
in the text and whether the white supremacy and all the forms that it takes,” an action sparked by remarks from Omar.
party would tolerate dis- Associated Press
senting views on Israel. Re-
publicans generally joined opposed the measure, one ological, the argument was ers — who have become a in the House.
in the favorable vote, calling it a “sham.” fueled in part by young, lib- face of the newly empow-
though nearly two-dozen Generational as well as ide- eral lawmakers — and vot- ered Democratic majority Continued on Page 2