'[Before Omar joined Congress], I didn't once witness another member target Jewish people like this with the name calling and other personal attacks,' Zeldin wrote.
New York congressman Lee Zeldin has accused Democratic representative Ilhan Omar of “targeting Jewish people” in response to her criticism of senior presidential aide Stephen Miller.
Responding on the social media platform, Zeldin said: “During my time in Congress before [Ilhan Omar] got here, I didn't once witness another Member target Jewish people like this with the name calling & other personal attacks. In 2019 though, for [Ilhan Omar], this is just called Monday.” Last June, a Boston Globe editorial described Miller as "the architect of family separation at the border." In September, his childhood rabbi, Neil Comess-Daniels, slammed the senior policy advisor's record on immigration in a sermon. That same month, his uncle, David Glosser, called him an"immigration hypocrite,” in an op-ed for Politico.
Omar and Zeldin have sparred on social media in the past. In January, Zeldin said of the Minnesota congresswoman's appointment to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations: “Crazy to watch what House Dems are empowering/elevating.” On Monday, Democrat Perry Gershon—Zeldin’s unsuccessful midterm opponent—called the congressman’s tweet a “new low," commenting: “Inappropriate accusations of anti-Semitism masks the ugliness of the real thing. [Ilhan Omar] may have used ugly tropes in the past, but her current criticism of Stephen Miller relates not to religion, but his racist and ugly tendencies.”
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