Representative Eric Cantor. Photo: wiki commons.

Times of Israel – The only Jewish Republican member of the US House of Representatives is refusing to join many of his colleagues in condemning Rep. Michele Bachman (R-Minn.) and four other GOP lawmakers for letters they wrote to federal agencies asking for an investigation into links between senior government officials and the Muslim Brotherhood.

In a television interview, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) was asked if Bachmann was “out of line” for suggesting that State Department official Huma Abedin is part of a Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy to infiltrate the American government.

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