; Whereas Representative Omar stated during a town hall in 2019, I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is okay to push for the allegiance to a foreign country. ; Whereas, in 2019, Congressional Democratic Leadership issued a joint statement in response to Representative Omar, saying, Anti-Semitism must be called out, confronted, and condemned whenever it is encountered, without exception. ; Whereas, on February 2, 2023, Representative Omar was removed from the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives for her numerous antisemitic and other problematic statements regarding the United States democratic ally Israel; and Whereas Representative Omar has repeatedly and frequently referred to the United States close partner Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, as an apartheid State and accused it of committing genocide : Now, therefore, be it