Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received harsh backlash after posting about a terror attack outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., last week.
The New York Democrat condemned the attack and antisemitism, but her message was rejected by many who pointed to her past remarks on the war in Gaza. Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly made unsubstantiated accusations against Israel of committing genocide in its war against the terror group Hamas.
“Absolutely nothing justifies the murder of innocents. I am devastated by the killing of two people outside an @AJCGlobal event here in Washington. Our prayers are with the victims, families, and loved ones of all impacted,” Ocasio-Cortez post on X. “As we await more details, we must be clear that hatred has no home here. Antisemitism is a threat to all we hold dear as a society. It must be confronted and rooted out everywhere.”
Commenters ripped her for hypocrisy. One <a href="https://x.com/hale_razor/status/1925532451952370172" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quipped</a> on the congresswoman’s post: “Match-lighter Condemns Blaze.”
Arsen Ostrovsky, CEO of The International Legal Forum, responded to Ocasio-Cortez: “‘Two people’? They were two JEWS. And more specifically, worked at the Israeli Embassy. These are pertinent details. Maybe you ought to be more mindful of your relentless inflammatory rhetoric, that only emboldens the kinds of perpetrators from tonight’s heinous attack.”
American Principles Project President Terry Schilling called on Ocasio-Cortez to apologize for her past rhetoric against Israel. “You need to apologize for your complicity. Stochastic terrorism and all,” he <a href="https://x.com/Schilling1776/status/1925506098636681539" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Stephen Miller, contributing editor at The Spectator, pointed out that, according to the FBI, the shooter <a href="https://x.com/redsteeze/status/1925551495245607216" target="_blank" rel="noopener">yelled</a> “Free Palestine” after killing Israeli Yaron Lischinsky and American Sarah Lynn Milgrim on Wednesday.
Ocasio-Cortez has often expressed sympathy and support for the “free Palestine” cause. In 2019, Ocasio-Cortez excused violence from Palestinians against Israel by accusing Israel of “occupation” in Judea and Samaria where terrorism is <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/01/06/more-than-1000-terror-attacks-in-west-bank-and-jerusalem-thwarted-in-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prevalent</a> through Palestinian society.
“I believe that injustice is a threat to the safety of all people, because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalized and marginalized — once someone doesn&#8217;t have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot, right?” she <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-palestinians-no-choice-riot-against-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in an interview on “Ebro in the Morning.”
In more recent comments, Ocasio-Cortez has accused Israel of committing a “genocide” in Gaza after Hamas committed the single deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
“As we speak, in this moment, 1.1 million innocents in Gaza are at famine’s door,” Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/24/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-israel-gaza-genocide-cnntv" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a speech on the House floor in March 2024. “A famine that is being intentionally precipitated through the blocking of food and global humanitarian assistance by leaders in the Israeli government.”
“If you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like,” she added, “open your eyes.”
Throughout the course of the war, Israel has allowed outside aid to flow into Gaza, often consisting of hundreds of aid trucks a day. The aid has often been stolen by terrorists once inside Gaza, however. Israel has blamed ineffective distribution systems run by the United Nations for aiding terrorists in Gaza.
Israel has recently relaxed a freeze on aid into the territory, however, trucks <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-strikes-kill-palestinians-protecting-gaza-aid-trucks-hamas-says-2025-05-23/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entering</a> Gaza are still being attacked and looted by armed men once inside Gaza, risking the aid falling again into the hands of Hamas.

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