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Ilhan Omar

April 2024

  • a row of tents with signs in a grassy area surrounded by brick and columned buildings

    Ilhan Omar’s daughter among over 100 arrested at Columbia University protest

    Students had pitched tents on New York City campus, demanding ceasefire and for the school to financially divest from Israel

February 2024

  • a woman speaks at a lectern

    Ilhan Omar speech proved to be mistranslated but outrage continues spread

    Republicans, rightwing figures and foreign politicians have seized upon the video despite proof the lawmaker was misquoted

January 2024

  • Middle Eastern woman with black head warp, dangly earrings, and red and yellow top spokes into microphone at lectern.

    Ilhan Omar leads 384 worldwide leaders in call for Gaza ceasefire

    Signatories of joint letter by US representative demanding end to war include politicians from Austria to Turkey

December 2023

  • A Somali Muslim woman wearing a black headwrap speaks outside in a crowd.

    A split among Democrats may threaten ‘the Squad’ - and help Trump - in 2024

    Centrists are taking on progressives in upcoming House races, as some say they’re losing sight of the big picture

November 2023

  • Ilhan Omar speaks during a news conference on the threat of default in May 2023 on Capitol Hill in Washington.

    Ilhan Omar faces Democratic primary challenge from ex-Minneapolis official

    Don Samuels says he will once again run after being narrowly defeated by the twice-elected congresswoman in 2022

October 2023

  • U.S. House Democrats deliver remarks on the sixth anniversary of Trump-era travel ban at the U.S. Capitol in Washington<br>U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) joins several fellow House Democrats in remarks on the sixth anniversary of Trump-era travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. January 26, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

    Ilhan Omar fears for family’s safety after barrage of threats over Israel criticism

    Minnesota congresswoman blames ‘dishonest smearing’ for surge in violent threats in wake of Israel-Hamas conflict

July 2023

  • Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib all pledged to skip Israel president Isaac ‘Bougie’ Herzog’s address to a joint session of Congress.

    Progressive Democrats protest Israeli president’s address to US Congress

  • ‘A few progressives including Omar, Bowman and AOC are boycotting Herzog’s congressional address’

    Why progressives like AOC are right to boycott Israeli President Isaac Herzog

    Peter Beinart

May 2023

  • Portrait of Ilhan Omar.

    Ilhan Omar condemns US’s failure to act since George Floyd: ‘A broken system’

    Exclusive: three years after the murder, the Minnesota congresswoman talks prison abuse and her new police violence resolution

February 2023

  • Ilhan Omar

    Democrats’ Ilhan Omar defence weakened by party’s own attacks over Israel

  • The House Republican majority voted to remove the Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar&nbsp;from the foreign affairs committee after a heated debate

    2:29

    Heated debate in US Congress as Ilhan Omar ousted from committee – video

  • Minnesota Democrat accuses Republicans of trying to silence her because she is Muslim and vows to ‘advocate for a better world’

    2:12

    'Is anyone surprised I'm being targeted?' Ilhan Omar ousted from key House committee – video

  • Ilhan Omar speaks in Washington DC on 25 January.

    Ilhan Omar’s removal from panel was ‘stupidest vote’, says Republican – report

  • Republicans have a serious antisemitism problem. It isn’t Ilhan Omar

    Moustafa Bayoumi

  • US politics live
    Republicans remove Ilhan Omar from House foreign affairs committee – as it happened

  • Ilhan Omar defiant as Republicans oust her from key House committee

  • Republican bid to kick Ilhan Omar off panel is ‘spite’, fellow Democrat says

January 2023

  • TOPSHOT-BRAZIL-POLITICS-BOLSONARO-SUPPORTERS-DEMONSTRATION<br>TOPSHOT - Supporters of Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro clash with the police during a demonstration outside the Planalto Palace in Brasilia on January 8, 2023. - Brazilian police used tear gas Sunday to repel hundreds of supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro after they stormed onto Congress grounds one week after President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva's inauguration, an AFP photographer witnessed. (Photo by EVARISTO SA / AFP) (Photo by EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)

    More than 70 US and Brazilian lawmakers condemn Trump-Bolsonaro alliance

    Exclusive: congresswoman Ilhan Omar leads joint statement focused on Sunday’s riots in Brasília and January 6 insurrection

October 2022

  • ‘A country that was once a beacon of hope for those escaping persecution has become one that persecutes those who are escaping persecution.’

    Ilhan Omar on the critical issues of the midterm elections: ‘People understand what’s at stake’

  • Ilhan Omar<br>FILE - Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks to reporters during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 30, 2021. Progressive and centrist Democrats in the House have clinched agreement on a long-sought policing and public safety package that will be brought to the House floor just weeks before the midterm elections. The breakthrough came after intense negotiations in recent days between Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., a leader of the centrist coalition, and Omar, one of the leaders of the progressive faction. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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