Robin Abcarian: What got Rep. Ilhan Omar kicked off that House committee? Payback and prejudice, not antisemitism

The idea that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who has essentially given aid and comfort to those who supported an insurrection against the United States government, would accuse anyone of being un-American is as rich as it is Orwellian.

But there he was on Thursday, moments after leading a successful effort to bounce Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a Black, Somalia-born Muslim woman, off the House Foreign Affairs Committee, disparaging her as disloyal to the United States.

For what?

According to the that passed 218 to 211 along strict party lines, for making an antisemitic remark four years