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In reply to the discussion: Top Foreign Affairs Dem rebukes Ilhan Omar for 'vile anti-Semitic slur' [View all]MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Especially since the "Islamic groups" who make up her top contributors are organizations like Emily's List, Move-On and End Citizens United.
All of them bent on taking down the State of Israel, I'm sure.
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00043581&cycle=2018
But she makes an excellent point, in that too much money is affecting our politics... And Washington is freaking out about. That's because that's ALL Washington has been all about for very interested parties over the years. From her fresh perspective, she can see it all very clearly.
It's just that simple.
When a pro-Israel lobbying group like NORPAC, the same group who wrote this love letter to Donald Trump and Jared Kushner over the highly controversial and inciting move of the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem (http://norpac.net/blog/norpac-statement-on-the-jerusalem-u-s-embassy-announcement), ends up being one of Rep. Engel's top contributors, I'm sure that all of can see that it makes Rep. Omar's point very clearly indeed.