Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Turned down $100,000 from AIPAC after first taking office in 2018.[1]
- One of the first representatives of the US House of Congress to call for a ceasefire in the 2023 Israel war on Gaza on October 16, 2023, together with Cori Bush, Rashida Tlaib, André Carson, Summer Lee, and Delia Ramirez.[2]
- Voted in favor of House Resolution 888,[3] a bill passed in the House on November 28, 2023 that recognized Israel's right to exist as a Jewish ethnostate (effectively as an apartheid state) and condemned the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel without mentioning the merciless Israeli slaughter of thousands of innocent Palestinian men, women, and children.[4]
- Abstained from voting on US House of Representatives Resolution 894,[5] which defined criticism of the state of Israel to be anti-Semitic hate speech (in line with the IHRA and ADL definitions), condemned the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel without mentioning the Israeli slaughter of thousands of innocents in Gaza, condemned From the River to the Sea as a genocidal hate rally, listed and condemned several anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic actions (treating all as anti-Semitic), but did not mention the anti-Palestinian stabbing-to-death of Wadea Al-Fayoume or the Vermont shooting of Tahseen Ali Ahmad, Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Hisham Awartani by a racist anti-Palestinian Islamophobe.[6]
- ↑ Grim, Ryan (December 5, 2023). "AOC Was Offered $100,000 by AIPAC to "Start the Conversation." She Turned Them Down". The Intercept. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
- ↑ Thakker, Prem; Lacy, Akela (October 16, 2023). "13 House Democrats Call for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza". The Intercept. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
- ↑ "Roll Call 677 | Bill Number: H. Res. 888". Office of the Clerk. United States House of Representatives. 2023-11-28. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- ↑ "H.Res.888 - Reaffirming the State of Israel's right to exist". Congress.gov. 2023-11-28. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- ↑ "Roll Call 697 | Bill Number: H. Res. 894". Office of the Clerk. US House of Representatives. 2023-12-05. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- ↑ "H.Res.894 - Strongly condemning and denouncing the drastic rise of antisemitism in the United States and around the world". Congress.gov. 2023-12-05. Retrieved 2023-12-08.