Tag: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Jewish groups slam Ocasio-Cortez for comparing US border control to ‘concentration camps’
Outrage from pro-Israel and Jewish groups is growing at U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for her remarks on Monday on her Instagram account that the United States is “running concentration camps on our southern...
The wrong debate about American aid to Israel
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) proved again this week that while she’s gotten some competition lately from her friend Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), the Queens congresswoman is still the country’s most unavoidable political personality.
AOC’s latest...
Green New Deal draws heated Jewish responses to tackling climate change
The Green New Deal, rolled out earlier this month by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), has generated a great deal of buzz in the news recently for its radical approach to fighting...
Former Clinton White House communications director on Tlaib, Omar, Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic agenda
Prominent Democratic strategist and former Clinton White House communications director Ann Lewis appeared to sidestep the anti-Israel issues surrounding freshmen Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-N.Y.).
Lewis was speaking at an...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she has Jewish ancestry
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 29-year-old Democratic congresswoman from New York, said at a Hanukkah event on Sunday that she has Jewish heritage.
After lighting Hanukkah candles in an event hosted by a Jewish group in Queens,...
Will the anti-Israel proclivities of new House Democrats affect others in the party?
One of the biggest storylines coming out of the recent midterm elections was the changing face of the newly elected members of Congress. The incoming 116th Congress will have its largest share of women...
Are far-left candidates pushing the Democrats further away from Israel?
Much like the 2016 presidential election, the 2018 midterm congressional elections are shaping up to be one of the most contentious in recent memory. Democrats are attempting to retake both houses of Congress in...
The ‘occupation’ and the old-new romance of socialism
At only 28 years old and with nothing but an upset primary win in a New York City congressional district on her résumé, being anointed as the “future of the Democratic Party” was quite...
NY Democratic Socialist candidate slams Israel, though says she’s not versed on Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who made headlines last month when she upset incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), one of the highest-ranking Democrats in the House, expressed confusion over the facts regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while...
Democratic Socialist who upset NY Rep. Joe Crowley said Israel committed a ‘massacre’ in...
A Democratic Socialist who upset Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) in a primary on Tuesday night had previously said that Israel had committed a “massacre” in the Gaza Strip.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, who soundly defeated Crowley...