Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib denounce Facebook as complicit in anti-Muslim violence
By Alejandra Molina — October 22, 2020
(RNS) — Their condemnation comes after a new report found that Facebook has played a role in anti-Muslim violence in Germany, Sweden, New Zealand and the United States.
How Islamophobia changed politics for Muslim America
By Simran Jeet Singh — April 23, 2020
(RNS) — Nazita Lajevardi’s new book, ‘Outsiders at Home,’ takes stock of the political toll two decades of Islamophobia has had on American Muslims.
Sanders wins endorsement from Muslim group, Iowa’s only Muslim state legislator
By Aysha Khan — February 3, 2020
(RNS) — The Vermont senator received an endorsement from Muslim Caucus in America and its advisory committee member Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad, a Des Moines native.
They made a mark on the religious scene this decade; some rose, others fell
By Yonat Shimron — January 2, 2020
(RNS) — This list of 12 — drawn from stories RNS has covered between 2010 and 2019 — offers a one-time retrospective of the personalities (and not a few of the issues) that dominated the religious scene this past decade.
Anti-Semitism in the US today is a variation on an old theme
By Pamela S. Nadell — November 6, 2019
(The Conversation) — With anti-Semitism today bombarding American Jews from the right and the left, the moment appears new, but its language is not. It's a very old theme.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on her journey, her resilience and her hopes for our future
By Simran Jeet Singh — October 28, 2019
(RNS) — 'The decaying of the soul often leads to decaying of societies, of countries, of nations, of the world.'
American Jewry’s very bad, terrible year
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 2, 2019
It's not about how they hate us. It's about how God loves us. That is the lesson for Jews on Rosh Ha Shanah.
Congressional hearing on travel ban highlights impact of muddled waiver process
By Aysha Khan — September 24, 2019
(RNS) — The first-ever congressional hearing on the ban focused on its human cost. But it also highlighted the confusion around the process for obtaining the case-by-case waivers promised by the Trump administration.
US judge: Terrorist watchlist violates citizens’ constitutional rights
By Aysha Khan — September 5, 2019
(RNS) – The lawsuit was brought forth by 23 U.S. Muslims, including a toddler who at just 7 months old was added to the secretive federal watchlist of “known or suspected terrorists.”
Why Trump’s tweets on Omar and Tlaib go to the heart of American Jewish politics
By Noam Pianko — August 26, 2019
(The Conversation) — The president’s recent tweets have capitalized on a tension embedded within two paradigms of the place of Israel in American Jewish life.
Trump: Any Jew voting Democratic is uninformed or disloyal
By Jonathan Lemire — August 21, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump's claim triggered an uproar from critics who said the president was trading in anti-Semitic stereotypes amid an ongoing feud with Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
Confessions of a disloyal Jew
By Mark Silk — August 21, 2019
(RNS) — On Tuesday, President Trump said, 'I think that any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.' Of the two, I have to choose disloyalty — and I'm proud of it.
Israel’s ‘PR Masada’ over Omar and Tlaib violates Zionism
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 17, 2019
(RNS) — We did not create Israel so that she could resemble a ghetto — physically, mentally and politically.
I’m a rabbi, and I understand Israel is not a democracy
By Alissa Wise — August 16, 2019
(RNS) — I believe one day U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib will be able to visit her grandmother without forfeiting her commitment to justice to do so. That day is hastened when we see Israel for what it is: not a flawed democracy, but no democracy at all.
Israel grants Tlaib West Bank visit on humanitarian grounds
By Isaac Scharf — August 16, 2019
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's interior minister said that Tlaib had requested and been granted permission to enter the West Bank to see relatives, including her 90-year-old grandmother.
