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“Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told a crowd in the German city where Nazism was born that US aid to Israel enabled a “genocide” in Gaza, galling critics who called her comments “preposterous.”
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made the outrageous claims while speaking at a town hall at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, where six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust — capping off an appearance marred by policy gaffes and garbled speeches.
“To me, this isn’t just about a presidential election. Personally, I think that the United States has an obligation to uphold its own laws, particularly the Leahy laws,” the lawmaker said Friday.
The Leahy Laws prohibit the US from funding “foreign security force units when there is credible information that the unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.”
“And I think that personally, that the idea of completely unconditional aid, no matter what one does, does not make sense. I think it enable a genocide in Gaza,” she added.
“And I think that we have thousands of women and children dead that don’t, that was completely avoidable.”
Munich was the location for Hitler’s infamous Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, a failed coup against the Bavarian government, which marked the monster’s ascendency to total power in Germany.
Foreign policy experts fact-checked AOC’s remarks as misinformed and ignorant.
“The evidence shows the opposite … Israel undertook unprecedented measures to mitigate civilian harm, including establishing humanitarian safe zones that independently verified data show were approximately six times safer than other areas of Gaza,” military historian from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Danny Orbach told Fox News.
Orbach, author of “Debunking the Genocide Allegations: A Reexamination of the Israel-Hamas War from October 7 2023, to June 1, 2025,” added that Israel gave “detailed advance warnings before strikes” — precautions not taken in genocides like the Holocaust.
Tom Gross, an international affairs expert, further roasted the 36-year-old rep.
“AOC has flown all the way to Munich — infamous as the city in which Hitler staged his Nazi Beer Hall Putsch that marked the beginning of the Holocaust — in order to smear the Jewish people further with a phony genocide allegation,” Gross told the outlet.
“Such preposterous allegations of ‘genocide’ form the bedrock of modern antisemitic incitement against Jews in the US and globally.”
Gross slammed the progressive firebrand’s “shocking ignorance” and said her comments should rule Ocasio-Cortez out of any potential run for president.
She sidestepped questions when probed about her own presidential ambitions.
“So when you run for president, are you going to impose a wealth tax or a billionaire’s tax?” New York Times correspondent Katrin Bennhold asked the congresswoman
“I don’t think that anyone — and that we don’t have to wait for any one president to impose a wealth tax. I think that it needs to be done expeditiously,” she said in response to the direct question.
Meanwhile, at another event in Munich Friday, Ocasio-Cortez was unable to give a straight answer when asked to name President Trump’s single-biggest foreign policy shift.
“Well, I think zooming out beyond just this presidential administration,” she said, “I think that what we are seeing is — between President Trump’s first administration pulling out of long standing international agreements; then you have President Biden, who is opting back into some of them, such as, for example, with the Paris Climate Accords, and then you have President Trump that’s elected again — I think what we are seeing now is this idea that US foreign policy is — and some of our more basic and foundational values-based commitments seem to be enacted based on the partisanship of whoever is elected.”
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