Nothing Ilhan Omar said has anything in common with the blood libel. She was making fair comment about a government, not slandering an ethnicity or a religion. Israel is simply a country- and while it has a right to end up living in peace and security and freedom-just as Palestine does- it is NOT synonymous with Jews and or Judaism. Equating Israel to Jews/Judaism essentially holds everyone who is Jewish responsible for the actions of the Israeli government or the consequences of the worst aspects of Zionism- neither of which is a valid statement, and both of which are, as acknowledged by all "antisemitic tropes".