‘No method in hell’ : Omar says she won’t attend Israeli president’s upcoming deal with to joint session of Congress

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) stated on Wednesday that she has no plans to attend Israeli president’s Isaac Herzog upcoming joint deal with to Congress, citing the continuing tensions between Israeli authorities and Palestine. 

“There is no such thing as a method in hell I’m attending the joint session deal with from a President whose nation has banned me and denied @RashidaTlaib the power to see her grandma,” Omar stated in her Twitter thread. She famous that the U.S. shouldn’t be inviting a president of a authorities that barred her and her fellow lawmaker, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), from visiting their nation. 

“Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s deal with comes on behalf of probably the most proper wing authorities in Israel’s historical past, at a time when the federal government is brazenly promising to “crush” Palestinian hopes of statehood—primarily placing a nail within the coffin of peace and a two-state answer,” Omar stated in her thread. 

Omar added in her thread the latest points and issues with the nation and its authorities, noting the far-right members of the federal government try to push laws that can overhaul the nation’s Supreme Court docket. 

She additionally famous that she lately opposed an invite for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s joint deal with to Congress final month as a consequence of his authorities’s human rights file.

“America can and will use its diplomatic instruments to have interaction with the Israeli authorities, however giving the present authorities the glory of a joint televised deal with sends absolutely the incorrect sign on the incorrect time,” Omar concluded in her thread. 

Herzog, who has been the nation’s president since 2021, is ready to handle a joint assembly of Congress on July 19, because the politician is visiting Washington to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the founding of Israel. 

Herzog would be the second Israeli president to handle Congress after his father, Chaim Herzog, did in November 1987.