McCarthy: Pelosi should remove Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is calling on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee after a controversial tweet that critics say compared Hamas and the Taliban with the U.S. and Israel.

“I think Nancy Pelosi should remove Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee. This is an individual that has not once, but on numerous occasions, been antisemitic. Her own entire Congress had to rebuke her in the last one,” McCarthy said in an appearance on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday.

Omar was condemned by Republicans and Democrats for her tweet regarding Hamas, the Taliban, the U.S. and Israel last week.

“We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity. We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban,” Omar tweeted.

Pelosi said on Friday that no further action would be taken against Omar for her tweet since she issued a follow-up statement to clarify her position. 

“To be clear: the conversation was about accountability for specific incidents regarding those ICC cases, not a moral comparison between Hamas and the Taliban and the U.S. and Israel,” Omar said, referring to the International Criminal Court. “I was in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries with well-established judicial systems.”

Although Democrats seemed ready to move past Omar’s words, McCarthy said he believes the Minnesota lawmaker should lose her seat on the committee.

“But she’s just not antisemitic, she’s anti-American now. She’s equating America to the Taliban, to Hamas. She’s discrediting our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel, the only democracy,” McCarthy said. 

“I will promise you this: If we are fortunate enough to have the majority, Omar would not be serving on Foreign Affairs or anybody that has an antisemitic, anti-American view,” he concluded.