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Representative Ilan Omar was met with boos and calls to “get the f**k out” when she came on stage at a music festival in Minneapolis.
A video from the event shows the featured artist, Somali singer Suldaan Seeraar, and also shows Omar walking on stage with her husband Tim Mynett.
The crowd at the Target Center started to boo Omar for over a minute.
The audience was mostly Somalian, and most people shouted “get out”, but others yelled, “get the f**k out of here.”
“OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, we don’t have all night,” Omar said.
The New York Post reported that Omar shared a video from the event on her Twitter account, but the clip is cut right before the booing begins. The video is now taken down.
Many believe this outburst stemmed from her comments and stance on LGBTQ issues and her opposition to the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
”Ilhan Omar’s BOOOD by nearly 10K SOMALIS at a sold out, highly anticipated Somali music concert at Target Center in Minneapolis!,” Shukri Abdirahman posted on Twitter, linking to the video.
The New York Post shared that the boos could have also been prompted by comments she made at a town hall event the week before.
She said she has experienced more violence in Minnesota than in a Kenyan refugee camp.
“For four years [in the camp] I did not witness that kind of violence … My first year in Minnesota I both saw a person shot at Peavey Park, dead on the floor, three weeks after my father and I arrived in Minneapolis,” the congresswoman said on June 30. “Six months later I watched the Minneapolis police put 38 bullets into the body of a mentally disabled Somali immigrant who didn’t speak English.”
“So [for] six years I had the privilege of not seeing any violence until I moved to Minnesota.”
Omar has also made a few anti-Semitic comments over time.
She sparked controversy over comments she made about support for Israel being “all about the Benjamins” and accusing Jewish-American legislators of having “dual loyalty.”
Omar apologized for her comments, but people did not buy them.
“The fake defense she doesn’t know what she’s saying? I don’t believe it,” said Sara, a Queens teacher. “This is a grown woman and a member of Congress. Trying to excuse this as naivete is inexcusable.”
“I never dreamed anti-Semitism would have become mainstream on the left, but it has.”
Sara said she is “not comfortable anymore being a Democrat” and will register as an independent.
Jordan Manor of Manhattan, calls himself a “gay Jewish Israeli-American,” said, “The party I thought cared about me seems to disregard me when it comes to my Jewish identity.”
