Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s workplace within the Bronx was vandalized early on Monday by masked protesters claiming to assist Palestinian rights. They defaced her picture by splattering pink paint throughout the home windows and left behind an indication studying “AOC funds genocide in Gaza.” The New York Democrat has additionally acquired violent threats in latest days, in keeping with her senior adviser Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben.
For a crowd that’s supposedly combating for Palestinian freedom, they certain have a knack for attacking precisely the mistaken individuals.
Through the 2024 presidential marketing campaign, these activists bizarrely fixated on Vice President Kamala Harris—hardly the puppet grasp of U.S. international coverage on Gaza—and heckled her relentlessly, even at her personal social gathering’s conference. They even cheered when Donald Trump gained the election, with peak absurdity displayed on this viral celebratory tweet:
Now it’s 2025, they usually’ve left Vice President JD Vance alone. I suppose vice presidents don’t have any energy over Gaza, in spite of everything?
And after dubbing former President Joe Biden “Genocide Joe,” they appear to have misplaced their creativity on the subject of Trump, who now has the ability to reshape U.S. coverage. As a substitute, he has brazenly embraced the ethnic cleaning of Palestinians. Amongst different issues, Trump moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, defunded UNRWA, and greenlit Israel’s annexation plans. And who may overlook the video he posted of his Gaza fantasy—replete with a golden Trump idol at his Trump-branded Gaza on line casino?
But none of those pro-Palestine activists protest Trump. No chants, no silly nicknames, no disruption. Nothing.
As a substitute, they obsessively give attention to Ocasio-Cortez, referred to as AOC—the true villain, apparently, of the push for peace within the Center East.
Disowned by the Democratic Socialists of America and hounded by a section of the far left that ignores actual enemies in favor of cannibalizing allies, AOC’s newest crime was voting “no” on an modification pushed by far-right wack job Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to defund Israel’s Iron Dome missile protection system. AOC’s response was direct and principled.
Solely six Home members supported that modification: Republicans Greene and Thomas Massie, who opposes all authorities spending; and Democrats Al Inexperienced, Summer season Lee, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib.
It’s a weird coalition, to place it mildly.
The far proper is isolationist and opposes all international funding, irrespective of the context. The far left, in the meantime, insists there’s no distinction between offensive and defensive weapons—arguing that by shielding Israeli civilians from rocket assaults, Iron Dome allows additional aggression. However there is a distinction, and it issues. As a result of any deliberate assault on civilians—whether or not Israeli or Palestinian—is terrorism, interval. Civilians ought to by no means be targets. And sure, that applies to Israel as nicely, which has proven it could eradicate threats surgically when it chooses to, as Hezbollah painfully realized.
However this isn’t about untangling the countless knot of the Israeli-Palestinian battle, which none of us can do (irrespective of how a lot yelling is finished within the feedback hooked up to this story). It’s about the place pro-Palestinian activists select to intention their hearth.
And proper now, they’re ignoring the individuals gleefully fueling this warfare—Trump and his minions—and attacking individuals like AOC, who’ve neither the ability nor the posture to assist genocide, and who really agree with them on the tip purpose!
Why not go after the handfuls of different Democrats who voted the identical manner AOC did—i.e., towards Greene’s stunt modification? Why not goal Republicans who assist Israeli occupation with out situations? Why workforce up with literal white supremacists like Marjorie Taylor Greene?
Fortunately, AOC didn’t mince phrases.
“Should you consider neo-nazis are welcome and working in good religion, you’ll be able to have them!” she tweeted—and she or he couldn’t be extra proper.
