Ilhan Omar says: I doesn’t know why Jewish Americans were offended by her anti-Semitic tweet!

WASHINGTON – Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar is fighting back after being labeled a bigot by critics for two tweets, one a recent post about Sen. Lindsey Graham and the other from more than six years ago about Israel. 

On Tuesday, the Minnesota Democrat posted a tweet about Graham, saying, "They got to him, he is compromised." The comment was made with a retweet of a post featuring a 2015 CNN interview in which the South Carolina Republican called then-presidential candidate Donald Trump a "race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot."

When asked about the tweet on CNN Thursday, Omar said her point was "we have seen many times where Sen. Lindsey Graham has told us how dangerous this president could be if he was given the opportunity to be in the White House, and all of the sudden he's made not only a 180 turnaround but a 360 turnaround." (A 360 would technically mean Graham came full circle and opposes Trump again.)

"So, I am pretty sure that there is something happening with him, whether it is something that has to do with his funding when it comes to running for office, whether it has something to do with the pull that they might have in his district, or whether it has to do with some sort of leadership within the Senate," she continued without explaining who she meant by "they."

"He is somehow compromised to no longer stand up for the truth," she concluded from his change of opinion. 

When pressed on how she could make such a charge without evidence, Omar at first asserted "the evidence really is present to us" but then backtracked, explaining, "My tweet was just an opinion based on what I believe to be visible to me and I'm pretty sure there are lots of Americans who agree on this." 

Although she made no reference to Graham's sexuality, many conservatives denounced her for homophobia, saying her tweet about Graham being compromised was a reference to long-running and unsubstaniated rumors that he is gay. 

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Seriously, she doesn’t know? Just how dumb can she really be here…

Saying Israel has ‘hypnotized the world’ is just like saying ‘Jews control everything’. It’s ridiculous and offensive.

In the interview says her tweet is about the 2012 Pillar of Defense war, which she doesn’t mention in the tweet. But the timing does match up. Even so, Israel wasn’t committing crimes or evil against the Palestinians in Gaza. The war began because over 100 rockets were fired out of the Gaza strip into Israel in a matter of day, among other things. But she blames Israel for hypnotizing the world? C’mon.

Clearly her anti-Semitism runs deep.