level advocacy teams to educate the British masses on the reality of the Israel/Palestine conflict."

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Bedouin villages

Omar wrote that if she had traveled to the Holy Land, she would have attended a briefing on the Bedouin community in East Jerusalem.

"For decades, Bedouin homes have been bulldozed and communities have been uprooted in order to build settlements on Palestinian land," the freshman Muslim congresswoman claimed in a Twitter message Aug. 16.

The IAM presenter noted that more than 200,000 Bedouin live in Israel, with the majority in the Negev desert.

"And guess what?" he said. "The Israel government isn't bulldozing their homes."

Instead, he said, "they are investing huge sums of money building housing and infrastructure for them."

Rather than visitingthese Bedouin, in cities such as Rahat, he said, she is visiting Khan al-Ahmar, a "tiny makeshift village that was built illegally."

Because it was illegal, he explained, the Israeli government planned to relocate the 32 families there five miles away and provide each of them with a package worth about $120,000.

"Of all the world's problems, she planned to travel 7,000 miles for this?"

Hebron

Omar then tweeted that she had planned to visit Hebron, which she said was once "a bustling economic hub" but "settlement expansion has resulted in a two-tiered city, with Palestinians under military occupation, forced to walk on the opposite side of the street from Israelis."

The IAM presenter pointed out, however that Israeli Jews are allowed to visit only 3 percent of Hebron.

"They're banned from the remaining