Omar calls on colleagues to visit Israel
Israel last week blocked the two Democratic House members from a planned trip to that country over their support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
Tlaib later declined to visit after Israel granted her entry to visit her grandmother in the West Bank on humanitarian grounds, saying she could not accept the conditions attached.
At a news conference in Minnesota, Omar says she and Tlaib are being prevented from carrying out their duties as members of Congress.
She is calling on her colleagues to "meet with the people we were going to meet with, see the things we were going to see, hear the stories we were going to hear."
Omar says U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot succeed "in hiding the cruel reality of the occupation from us."
Twin delegations of dozens of freshmen Republican and Democratic members of Congress visited Israel earlier this month.
