Omar put it, is the plot of Jud Süss - the most successful Nazi film ever made. The Jewish power to hypnotize the world, as Ms. It has led to countless expulsions, murders, massacres and pogroms throughout Europe and elsewhere. In the two millenniums that followed, even after 1965, when the Catholic Church formally disavowed the belief that the Jews killed Jesus, this was the template for the anti-Semitic conspiracy: the ability of this tiny minority to use its wiles and its proximity to power to con others into accomplishing their evil ends. In the book of Matthew, the implications of this manipulation are spelled out: “His blood is on us and our children,” the Jews say - a line that has been so historically destructive that even Mel Gibson cut it from his “Passion of the Christ.” Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, speaks to the Jews about Jesus in the book of John: “Take him yourselves and judge him according to your own law.” But the Jews punt the decision back to Pilate: “We are not permitted to put anyone to death.” And so Pilate does the deed on their behalf. In the New Testament, it is a small band of Jews who get Rome - then the greatest power in the world - to do their bidding by killing Christ. The conspiracy theory of the Jew as the hypnotic conspirator, the duplicitous manipulator, the sinister puppeteer is one with ancient roots and a bloody history. Because sentiments like these, once beyond the pale of our public discourse, are being heard with greater frequency and volume these days, allow me to explain why this Jewish American, and almost every Jewish American I know, found her words so offensive. Omar is sincerely befuddled and not simply deflecting. My comments precisely are addressing what was happening during the Gaza War and I’m clearly speaking about the way the Israeli regime was conducting itself in that war.” “I don’t know how my comments would be offensive to Jewish Americans.

“That’s a really regrettable way of expressing that,” Ms. On Thursday, CNN’s Poppy Harlow pressed her again: “I wonder just what your message is this morning as the first on our Game Changer series to Jewish-Americans who find that deeply offensive.” Omar, a refugee from Somalia who last year became one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress and was just seated on the influential House Foreign Affairs Committee. In 2012, during one of Israel’s periodic wars with Hamas in Gaza, Ilhan Omar, at the time a 32-year-old nutrition coordinator with the Minnesota Department of Education, tweeted the following: “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.

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