Tag: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Ocasio-Cortez, Omar and Tlaib to endorse Sanders for president
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) say they plan on endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
The three freshmen congresswoman are scheduled to officially...
Ocasio-Cortez accuses Trump of anti-Semitism for Twitter war against Rep. Adam Schiff
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) accused U.S. President Donald Trump over the weekend of being “engaged in deliberate, atrocious, targeted anti-Semitism” in response to the president’s Twitter attacks Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who is Jewish.
“Understand...
Ocasio-Cortez points finger at Netanyahu, accusing him of ‘unjust,’ ‘inhumane policies’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday of enacting “unjust and inhumane policies.”
“The Netanyahu administration has been pursuing a lot of extraordinarily concerning policies,” she told reporters. “To conflate...
On radio show, Ocasio-Cortez agrees with host, saying Israel is ‘very criminal, very unjust’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) agreed on Tuesday with a New York radio host, saying that what’s happening in Israel is “very criminal.”
“Now you look around the globe and you have multiple corrupt governments working...
Ocasio-Cortez signs onto Omar’s pro-BDS resolution
U.S. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has signed onto Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) resolution that supports the anti-Israel BDS movement.
Although the pro-boycott resolution introduced by Omar does not explicitly mention Israel, she told Al-Monitor shortly before filing it,...
Virginia state legislature candidate removes Facebook concentration-camp ‘joke’
A Republican candidate for Virginia’s state legislature removed a meme from his personal Facebook page that mocked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) comparison of U.S. migrant detention facilities to concentration camps.
Paul Milde, running to be...
Holocaust survivor calls for Ocasio-Cortez to be removed from Congress for comments
Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg accused U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Saturday of “spreading anti-Semitism, hatred and stupidity” and called for her to be ousted from Congress.
“She should be removed from Congress. She’s spreading...
Ocasio-Cortez rejects Auschwitz tour with Holocaust survivor
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) rejected an invitation on Sunday to tour Auschwitz with a Holocaust survivor.
The organization From the Depths, whose president, 93-year-old Edward Mosberg, is a Holocaust survivor, invited her to see...
Ocasio-Cortez invited by Polish parliament member to tour concentration camps
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has been invited by a member of the Polish parliament to visit concentration camps in Poland that were used during World War II and the Holocaust.
This comes after the...
Why disingenuous Holocaust analogies matter
Even leftists are a little embarrassed by it.
The willingness of some Americans to analogize the plight of illegal immigrants seeking to enter the United States with that of Jews who sought to flee the...