Republican lawmakers are seeking to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Ilhan Omar. AP. Republican lawmakers are seeking to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.   House Republicans are targeting Omar for her past criticism of Israel. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is trying to strengthen a Republican effort to remove Somali-born Omar from the committee in a vote on Thursday. Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul pushed for Omar to be barred from the panel during a recent Republican meeting.  He said "her worldview of Israel," is "so diametrically opposed to the committee’s,” that it goes beyond "differences of opinion." In 2019, Omar suggested that pro-Israel groups were pushing U.S. lawmakers to take a pledge of "allegiance to a foreign country." Omar later apologized for the comments. Democrats are "united" in their support for Omar remaining on the Foreign Affairs Committee, according to Rep. Gregory Meeks, the ranking Democrat on the committee. Omar said the GOP is motivated by "revenge" after Democratic lawmakers removed far-right Republicans Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rep. Paul Gosar from their committees in 2021. Removing lawmakers from their House committees was an unprecedented act until Greene and Gosar were ousted. McCarthy said that he will work with Democrats to establish a due process system for removing lawmakers from their committees in the future.