Ilhan Omar Wants to Sanction Israel But Not Turkey- Some Info On Turkey

Ilhan Omar is one of the members of Congress who introduced a bill to legalize boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel. Yet this is what she wrote in response to Trump imposing sanctions before lifting them and then threatening more sanctions.

Given her relationship with Turkey, it’s easy to understand why she wouldn’t want sanctions against it. A previous post about her relationship with Turkey can be found here.

The article can be found here.

She wrote: “Research has shown that sanctions rarely achieve their desired goals. In the worst-case scenario, they hurt the people of a country — generally the very people we’re purporting to help — without making a dent in the country’s behavior. And in the case of human rights abusers, research suggests that more abuses typically occur with economic sanctions in place than without them.”