Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership team took the unusual step of issuing a statement that both rebuked Omar for her comments and thanked her for later clarifying her remarks — taking a more nuanced approach than the last major uproar over the Minnesota Democrat’s comments on Israel that escalated into a days-long political crisis for her party.
The rare unified statement from the top six Democratic leaders came less than 24 hours after a dozen of Omar’s Democratic colleagues issued a late-night statement criticizing her. While Democratic leaders did not follow House GOP counterparts in accusing Omar of antisemitism, the Pelosi-led statement warned that “drawing false equivalencies” such as Omar’s “foments prejudice and undermines progress toward a future of peace and security for all.”