On Tuesday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) traded barbs over the protests that have sprouted up at U.S. colleges in response to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
The exchange began with Omar, a member of the leftist “Squad,” sharing on X a screen grab of a post from Blackburn using her congressional X account to talk about implementing penalties for students fostering terrorism while advancing the Hamas cause.
“Any student who has promoted terrorism or engaged in terrorists [sic] acts on behalf of Hamas should be immediately … added to the terrorist watch list and placed on the TSA No Fly List,” Blackburn said.
In her own post, Omar said, “A sitting Senator, labels Americans protesting against a foreign country accused of carrying out a genocide funded with our tax dollars as terrorists and puts a target on their back to be attacked. This is insanely…
