Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
She also endorsed the anti-Israel progressive group IfNotNow, saying it is “amazing” and “organizing for justice.”
The New York congresswoman was also one of 17 members to vote against last week’s House resolution condemning BDS.
Saikat Chakrabarti wore it in a video produced by the left-wing outlet NowThis News, titled “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Chief of Staff on Acting Fast in Congress,” in December 2018.
Paul Milde, running to be a delegate from the state’s 28th district, had a message for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.).
The letter, signed by more than 140 academics, warned that the museum could lose its credibility by releasing the statement it did.
“The people on the border aren’t forced to be there; they go there on their own will. If someone doesn’t know the difference, either they’re playing stupid or they just don’t care,” said 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg.
The organization From the Depths, whose president, 93-year-old Edward Mosberg, is a Holocaust survivor, invited her to see the camp where an estimated 1.1. million people were murdered.
“I would urge severe caution in attempting to leverage phrases such as ‘concentration camp’ for political ends,” said Dominik Tarczyński, vice president of European Conservatives in the European Council. “It will lead nowhere good.”
“There is a long tradition of members of Congress saying dumb things; nevertheless, this comment belongs in the Hall of Fame. It’s not anti-Semitic. It’s too sloppy for that,” historian Gil Troy told JNS.
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) also compared the re-election of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “the ascent of authoritarianism across the world,” and said that his victory should affect American policy on Israel.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) retweeted a post from a supporter of the U.S.-designated terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Jewish groups weigh in on the 10-year proposal that would require the U.S. energy grid to 100 percent run on renewables—solar, wind, hydroelectric, biomass and geothermal—enabling regulations that “would likely require at least $1 trillion in new regulatory costs, if not much more.”
