Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) insisted on Friday that she and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) had planned on meeting Knesset Members during their visit to Israel which had been scheduled for next week before Israel announced it would not permit them entry.
In a lengthy Twitter thread outlining the itinerary of her trip, Omar wrote, “I planned to hold meetings with members of the Knesset (both Jewish and Arab) along with Israeli security officials. The claims of [Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu] otherwise are not true.”
Omar further claimed the delegation had also scheduled a meeting with the US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman.
(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
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