By John Bowden
TheHill
March 9, 2019
A New York Times columnist argued Saturday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) missed an opportunity to build bridges between Muslims and Jews in the U.S. with her recent comments about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Israel.
In an interview on CNN’s “Smerconish,” Thomas Friedman said Omar’s district, which is composed of sizable Jewish and Somali-American Muslim populations, had teed up the rookie representative to build relationships between the two communities.