AOC Slams ‘Bigotry’ and ‘Anti-Semitism’ at Left-Wing Pro-Palestine Rallies In NYC
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) vehemently condemned the pro-Palestine rally held in Times Square in New York City on Sunday that was promoted by the Democratic Socialists of America, the same group that helped get her elected.
“It should not be hard to shut down hatred and antisemitism where we see it. That is a core tenet of solidarity,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement to Politico’s Playbook late Monday night.
“The bigotry and callousness expressed in Times Square on Sunday were unacceptable and harmful in this devastating moment. It also did not speak for the thousands of New Yorkers who are capable of rejecting both Hamas’ horrifying attacks against innocent civilians as well as the grave injustices and violence Palestinians face under occupation,” she added in the statement.
Playbook noted that while the Democratic Socialists of America did not organize Sunday’s rally it was promoted by some of the group’s leaders, which has led to “several lawmakers with DSA ties” to distance “themselves from what was said at the event.”
White House correspondent for Yahoo News Alexander Nazaryan recapped the rally by noting that “speaker after speaker praised the slaughter of civilians that had taken place in Israel the day before, after the militant group overwhelmed Israeli defenses in an audacious, unexpected raid.”
Nazaryan quoted one speaker joking about the desert concert where Palestinian gunmen murdered hundreds of young people and raped women, saying, “And as you might have seen, there was some sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang gliders and took at least several dozen hipsters.” An image of one of the rallygoers holding up a swastika on his cell phone quickly went viral online.
As of Tuesday, the death toll from Hamas’ devastating attack on the south of Israel stood at over 1,000 – primarily civilians who were gunned down in their homes and young concertgoers who were slaughtered en mass at a desert rave.
