AOC: 'War Criminal' Netanyahu Should Not Address Congress
Ocasio-Cortez posted a video of Netanyahu complaining that the Biden administration has been withholding weapons from Israel amid the genocide
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal and should not be addressing Congress, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., posted on X late Tuesday.
Ocasio-Cortez posted a video of Netanyahu complaining that the Biden administration has been withholding weapons from Israel amid the genocide.
She wrote: “This man should not be addressing Congress. He is a war criminal. And he certainly has no regard for US law, which is explicitly designed to prevent US weapons from facilitating human rights abuses. His invitation should be revoked. It should’ve never been sent in the 1st place.”
Ocasio-Cortez has faced some blowback from the progressive community for not being assertive enough in support of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
She was criticized by Columbia University’s Students for Justice in Palestine for supporting the U.S. funding of Iron Dome.
Other progressives have come out strongly in support of their cause.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., who has been targeted by AIPAC over his lack of loyalty to Israel, said the U.S. should not send another dime to Netanyahu.
Reps. Nina Turner and Rashida Tlaib penned an op-ed in The Nation comparing the Palestinian liberation to black liberation.
They wrote:
It has been deeply inspiring to see organizations focused on Black liberation, from the NAACP to the Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to The King Center, embrace the cause of Palestinian human rights.
All of these groups have called for a cease-fire in Gaza—and recently, the NAACP, the nation’s leading civil rights organization, went a step further, urging the Biden administration to stop weapons shipments to Israel. This courageous declaration by the NAACP is the latest example of the shared struggle for Black and Palestinian liberation.
This is the Biden administration’s biggest fear.