AOC slammed over Israel ‘genocide’ comments
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez spoke throughout a city corridor on the Munich Safety Convention in Germany the place she claimed U.S. help “enabled a genocide in Gaza.” (Credit score: Munich Safety Convention)
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., alleged on the Munich Safety Convention on Friday that U.S. help to the Jewish state enabled a genocide in opposition to Israel. AOC’s assault on the Jewish state in Munich unfolded within the birthplace of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi motion that carried out the worst genocide in human historical past.
AOC’s assault on Israel’s struggle marketing campaign to defeat the U.S. and EU-designated terrorist motion within the Gaza Strip sparked outrage and intense criticism from educational army and Center East specialists.
Throughout the city corridor occasion in Munich, the Squad member stated, “To me, this is not nearly a presidential election. Personally, I believe that the USA has an obligation to uphold its personal legal guidelines, significantly the Leahy legal guidelines. And I believe that personally, that the thought of utterly unconditional aid, it doesn’t matter what one does, doesn’t make sense. I believe it enabled a genocide in Gaza. And I believe that now we have hundreds of ladies and kids useless that do not, that was utterly avoidable.”
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY., speaks throughout the Munich Safety Convention (MSC) in Munich, Germany, Feb. 13, 2026. (Liesa Johannssen/Reuters)
She continued, “And, so I consider that enforcement of our personal legal guidelines by the Leahy legal guidelines, which requires conditioning help in any circumstance, while you see gross human rights violations, is acceptable.”
The Leahy Legal guidelines prohibit the Division of Protection and the State Division from funding “overseas safety power items when there may be credible info that the unit has dedicated a ‘gross violation of human rights.” Former Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT., launched the invoice in 1997.
Tom Gross, an skilled on worldwide affairs, advised Fox Information digital that “AOC has flown all the way in which to Munich — notorious as town by which Hitler staged his Nazi Beer Corridor Putsch that marked the start of the highway to the Holocaust — with a purpose to smear the Jewish individuals additional with a phony genocide allegation.”
Gross added, “Such preposterous allegations of ‘genocide’ type the bedrock of contemporary antisemitic incitement in opposition to Jews within the U.S. and globally. This surprising ignorance and insensitivity by Ocasio-Cortez ought to rule her out of any potential presidential bid or different excessive workplace.”
Memorials on the website of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror assault on the Supernova music pageant close to Kibbutz Re’im, Israel, on Monday, Might 27, 2024. (Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)
Army specialists and genocide researchers have debunked the allegation that Israel carried out a genocide in opposition to Palestinians throughout its self-defense struggle in opposition to the Hamas terrorist group that began after Hamas terrorists attacked communities in elements of southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 that noticed over 1200 Israeli and overseas nationals killed and 251 brutally kidnapped and brought into Gaza by Hamas and different terrorists.
Hamas terrorists wave to Gazans throughout Sunday’s launch of three Israeli hostages. (TPS-IL)
Danny Orbach, a army historian from the Hebrew College of Jerusalem, and co-author of “Debunking the Genocide Allegations: A Reexamination of the Israel-Hamas Struggle from October 7 2023, to June 1, 2025,” advised Fox Information Digital that Ocasio-Cortez accusation that Israel dedicated genocide is an “accusation that’s incorrect each factually and legally. Below the Genocide Conference, genocide requires proof of a particular intent to destroy a protected group, in entire or partially, and as a baseline situation, an energetic effort to maximise civilian destruction.
“The proof exhibits the alternative: as demonstrated in our multi-author research Debunking the Genocide Allegations, Israel undertook unprecedented measures to mitigate civilian hurt, together with establishing humanitarian secure zones that independently verified information present have been roughly six occasions safer than different areas of Gaza.”
An Israeli soldier patrols close to Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel on Oct. 12, 2023, near the place the place 270 revelers have been killed by terrorists throughout the Supernova music pageant on Oct 7. (Aris Messinis/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Orbach added, “Israel additionally issued detailed advance warnings earlier than strikes and facilitated the entry of over two million tons of humanitarian help, typically at vital value to its personal army benefit, together with the lack of shock and the sustainment of an enemy throughout wartime.”
He concluded, “These measures have been taken regardless of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, its systematic use of human shields and hospitals for army functions, and a tunnel community exceeding 1,000 kilometers — an operational problem with out historic precedent. Lastly, no credible proof demonstrates the form of unambiguous, unique genocidal intent towards Palestinians that worldwide legislation requires and that can’t be fairly interpreted in any other case.”
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The conservative commentator Derek Hunter posted on X. “Think about going to Germany to complain a couple of faux genocide by Jews…in Munich, of all locations. @AOC is about as sensible as clogged rest room.”
In Dec. 2024, Germany joined the U.S. in rejecting the allegations that Israel dedicated genocide in Gaza.
