Ilhan Omar Tells Us What “We Must” Believe (Judean Rose)

In a headline-grabbing op-ed in the Washington Post, Democratic Representative for Minnesota, Ilhan Omar said of Israel, “We must acknowledge that this is also the historical homeland of Palestinians.” 

It seems strange that anyone would let a woman accused of multiple instances of expressions of antisemitism tell the world what it must think. It seems even stranger that someone associated with the liberal left would tell the world what it must think. (How illiberal is the thought that all people “must” think a certain way, take a specific position, because someone in a position of leadership says so?)

But finally, it seems strange that the Jews would accept as credible, the idea that the Arabs share the Land of Israel as their “historic” homeland. The Arabs, after all, are a people who didn’t exist until thousands of years after the Jewish people were an established, sovereign entity in the Holy Land. The Jews were in Israel before Mohammed was a glimmer in his mama’s eye.

Why would the Jewish people, of all people, accept this revisionist view of history from an expressed antisemite, let alone from anyone at all?