Ilhan Omar joining new Black-Jewish Caucus leads to Twitter war with GOP co-founder Rep. Lee Zeldin

A newly formed Congressional Black-Jewish Caucus has an unlikely interested member in Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota Democrat repeatedly accused of anti-Semitism. Omar’s spokesman Jeremy Slevin confirmed to Jewish Insider on Thursday that she would be joining the bipartisan committee after she expressed an interest. She later clarified that she was not endorsing the “bigotry” of Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Jewish New York Republican who announced the formation of the Caucus along with Democratic Reps. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of Florida and Michigan’s Brenda Lawrence.