Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez broke with members of her far-left ‘caucus’ of Democratic lawmakers to condemn the ‘unacceptable’ Pro-Palestine rallies in NYC.
“It shouldn’t be difficult to shut down hate and anti-Semitism where we see it,” AOC said in a statement on Monday. ‘This is a core principle of solidarity. The bigotry and callousness expressed in Times Square on Sunday was unacceptable and damaging in this devastating moment.’
A pro-Palestinian crowd took over Times Square on Sunday – just one day after the terrorist organization Hamas launched its attack on Israel that left more than 1,000 people dead.
Shocking new footage emerged today showing a pro-Hamas crowd in Tampa, Florida, taunting Jewish people with images of murdered Israelis, in yet another illustration of the vile anti-Semitism gripping sections of the population.
AOC’s statement marks a break with other members of the so-called Hateful Eight of Democrat lawmakers – including Ilhan OmarRashida Tlaib, and Cori Bush – who have been vocal critics of Israel in the past.
The statement is noteworthy given AOC’s vocal criticism of Israel in the past
One of the hundreds of placard-clad protesters was seen in the front line holding aloft a swastika
Other members of the vigilante group of lawmakers, Greg Casar and Summer Lee, were also critical of the Jewish state.
AOC added in its statement that the protest “did not speak for thousands of New Yorkers who are able to reject both Hamas’ horrific attacks against innocent civilians as well as the grave injustices and violence Palestinians face under the occupation.”
New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman, a member of the Squad, also condemned the rally.
“I am shocked and disgusted by the rally held here in NY this weekend to celebrate death or attacks on civilians and display swastikas,” he wrote on Twitter.
Adding: ‘I condemn any protest that does this in the strongest possible terms. We must proceed based on the recognition of our shared humanity.’
Protesters at Sunday’s rally rallied with megaphones and yellow signs reading: ‘Resistance to occupation is a human right’ and ‘end all US aid to apartheid Israel’. They chanted: ‘5, 6, 7, 8 Israel is a terrorist state.’
Protesters planned to take over Times Square – the social and symbolic epicenter of New York – just one day after Israeli women and children were dragged from their homes and slaughtered by Palestinian militants.
Other members of the ‘Hateful Eight’ have attracted widespread criticism for their failure to support Israel after Hamas’s devastating attacks.
Calling on the US government to withdraw its support for the Jewish state, Ilhan Omar called Israel’s retaliatory attacks “collective punishment, a war crime” and added that “the US must oppose any violations of international law”. if we really support a rules-based international support. order.’
Cori Bush also called for an end to US support for Israel, calling it an apartheid state.
Just like that, Rashida Tlaib, in a statement following Hamas attacks, wrote that the path to peace ‘must include lifting the blockade, ending the occupation and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that lead to resistance can lead’.
The number of people killed in Hamas’ attack on Israel has risen to 1,200, with 2,900 wounded. The most recent Gaza toll stands at 900 dead and 4,500 injured.
Several pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets of Manhattan on Sunday after rocket attacks, looting and killings on the streets of Israel over the weekend. Hamas, the terrorist organization and de facto rulers of the Gaza Strip, ambushed and killed hundreds of Israelis during their holiday.
There was a heavy police presence in New York’s Time Square today – as pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets of Midtown after Hamas launched surprise attacks on Israel.
Hundreds of people took over Times Square to protest on Sunday
Pro-Palestinian protesters continued to chant ‘resistance is justified’ into the afternoon – as a sea of signs and placards took over Times Square
American citizens were among the dead and captured, said Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
AOC formally called Israel an apartheid state, reports the Jerusalem Post, and skipped Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s speech to Congress earlier this year.
Democrat Summer Lee said she “strongly condemns Hamas’s horrific attack” but that “we must end the occupation” and that there is “no military solution that will end this violence.”
On Tuesday night, it emerged that babies in Israel were beheaded by Hamas militants.
Hamas gunmen massacred 40 children in one farm settlement alone, leaving their tiny corpses riddled with bullets in their rooms.
And as shocked survivors told their stories, one grieving grandson, Shmuel Harel, told the Daily Mail’s Sam Greenhill: ‘They are the new Nazis. It was a holocaust, pure and simple.’
Israeli forces retrieve bodies of Israeli residents from a destroyed house as fighting continues between Israeli troops and Islamist Hamas militants
Israeli soldiers prepare to remove the bodies of their compatriots killed during an attack by Hamas in Kfar Aza
Cars and a stroller left at the scene of a rocket attack from Gaza at the weekend are pictured on a main road near the entrance to the Israeli kibbutz of Kfar Aza.
Israeli soldiers remove the body of a compatriot killed during an attack by Hamas terrorists in Kfar Aza on Tuesday
He said his terrified 90-year-old grandmother’s last moments were dragged into her living room and shot twice in the head.
A sobbing Israeli woman said she had to listen in helpless horror as her 12-year-old autistic daughter was kidnapped as she desperately clung to her grandmother.
As vengeful Israel unleashes hell in military retaliation, stunned survivors gather at refugee hotels a safe distance from the front line – where they weep.
Last night at the Leonardo Plaza Hotel on the Dead Sea, dozens sat in the lobby and coffee shop, some with photos of loved ones who had been butchered or kidnapped.