Democratic United States Representative Ilhan Omar , one of the progressive House members known as the “Squad” and an outspoken critic of Israel’s war in Gaza, has won her primary race in ... Ilhan Omar is an American policy analyst, organizer, public speaker, advocate, and politician who began representing Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, which includes Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs, in 2019. Ilhan Omar is a Somalia-born American politician of the American Democratic party and is known for her anti-Israeli views. In 2018, she became the first American politician to have been allowed to wear a hijab in the House of Representatives. [1] In June 2022, she made headlines after she introduced a resolution in the American Senate against India over its alleged human rights violations.
