Did Rep. Ilhan Omar fail to condemn the shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers at the Capital Jewish Museum, as a social media post implied? No, that's not true: The Minnesota congresswoman decried the shooting and violence in general in a post on X.com at 9:17 AM Pacific Time on May 22, 2025. Three hours after that, an X user posted that Omar had "refused to condemn" the shooting.
The claim was made in a May 22, 2025 X post (archived here) on the @Barbara14130169 account, where a FOX News video was captioned "WATFH". It continued:
👉 Ilhan Omar,
a seemingly open Jihadist and Jew-hater, refused to condemn the D.C. terror attack.
This is what that post looked like on X at the time this fact check was written:
(Source: X.com screenshot by Lead Stories.)
Omar's reaction to the May 21, 2025 shooting was posted on X at 9:17 AM Pacific Time May 22, and read as follows:
I am appalled by the deadly shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum last night.
Holding the victims, their families, and loved ones in my thoughts and prayers.
Violence should have no place in our country.
Here is what Omar's post looked, with a 9:17 a.m. time stamp, looked like on X:
(Source: X screenshot by Lead Stories.)
The post saying Omar had refused to condemn the shooting carries a time stamp three hours later than Omar's. On X, that post looked like this, with the "12:12 p.m., May 22, 2025" timecode at the bottom:
(Source: X screenshot by Lead Stories.)
Readers will find more Lead Stories fact checks about Omar here.
