Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., calling for the U.S. to cut ties with “dangerous” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “reprehensible,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., told Newsmax on Friday.

“I went to Israel immediately following the October 7th attack by the Hamas terrorists. I was the only member of the United States government that wasn’t stationed in Israel there on the ground,” Van Orden said on “Newsline.” “And what Hamas did was a 21st century Holocaust. And for Ilhan Omar to defend that is reprehensible.

Van Orden added: “She’s more in line, and I don’t like using these terms, but it’s true, she’s more in line with the National Socialists of Germany from the 1930s than she is with the American public. So, Israel is our closest ally in the Middle East. They’re the only functioning democracy in the Middle East. They’re on the front lines fighting terrorists so that they’re not here in the United States of America.

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