Anti-discrimination vote to take place on Thursday

BY JOE KELLY

The U.S. House of Representatives will vote Thursday on a resolution that bans discrimination of any kind, according to the New York Times.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi told news outlets on Thursday that the plan would declare opposition to anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and anti-Muslim statements. Pelosi added that the plan wasn't purely aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar, according to the Washington Post.

"It's not about her," Pelosi said. "It's about these forms of hatred."

However, the plan comes right after controversial comments Omar made last week that criticized Jewish members' loyalty to Israel, the New York Times reported. The Washington Post reported that Democratic leaders are concerned that the plan is interrupting progress on H.R. 1, a political ethics and reform bill that will be voted upon on Friday.

Arguments over how discrimination plagues politics split members of the Democratic party, especially angering Jewish Democratic leaders, according to the New York Times.

"There is too much hatred, too many other people who are targeted, and we need to support all of them," Rep. Ted Deutch said to news outlets. "But we are having this debate because of the language of one of our colleagues - language that suggests Jews like me who serve in the United States in Congress and whose father earned a Purple Heart fighting the Nazis in the Battle of the Bulge, that we are not loyal Americans."