AOC’s ‘genocide’ libel stokes antisemitism – Latest News
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has admitted she is no knowledgeable on the Middle East. But her false “genocide” claims towards Israel — in Germany, of all locations — stokes antisemitism at home.
I actually spent two days in Munich this month for a sequence of non-public discussions with Jewish, Christian, and Muslim peace-seekers.
The focus was on future plans to develop the Abraham Accords, the landmark peace settlement between Israel and several other Arab and Muslim states.
But I couldn’t shake my earliest recollections of town, 47 years in the past, in 1979.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talking on the “Fighting Oligarchy” rally. Giles Harrison /London Entertainment / SplashNews.com
It was the Jewish vacation of Purim, which marks the failure — documented within the Bible — of the primary genocidal scheme focusing on Jews, in historic Persia.
On that day, I recited the Book of Esther (identified to Jews because the Megillah), along with famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. With us was Rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center on the Jewish Memorial at Dachau, Hitler’s first focus camp
We had come to foyer West Germany to scrap its statute of limitations on homicide, which may have enabled each German mass assassin to return home, free from any future prosecution. (Ultimately, the Bundestag did rescind the law).
Today, Munich nonetheless carries the legacy of the Holocaust — and the reminiscence of one other mass homicide, in 1972, of 11 Israeli athletes on the Munich Olympics. It was a terror assault made worse by the callous indifference of the International Olympic Committee.
Less than a week earlier than my arrival this month, the magnificent Ohel Jakob Synagogue in Munich had obtained a rifle cartridge with a dwell bullet in it, together with threats of violence towards the Jewish neighborhood.
I made it my business to attend morning companies inside that lovely synagogue, becoming a member of some 30 native males in communal prayer.
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Those elegant moments of peace dissipated as I left and noticed a German police officer, finger on the set off of her computerized weapon, standing twenty toes from the doorway. She was there to guard the congregation.
The subsequent day, AOC — the New York congresswoman who could aspire to guide the Democratic Party, and the nation — got here to the Munich Conference to gain worldwide publicity, and provides hope to left-wing Europeans shellshocked by President Donald Trump’s dramatic geopolitical strikes.
Make no mistake: AOC will long be remembered in Munich. She shall be remembered for her historic illiteracy and antisemitism, wrapped in a fraying shroud of Hamas-fed statistics.
Not removed from the place Hitler launched his rise to energy on lurid antisemitic tropes, AOC selected to accuse the Jewish state of genocide.
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For the file, the United States and Germany each rejected that new “big lie” marketing campaign — however not AOC. The world elite on the Munich Conference have been left to scratch their heads — who constitutes her base, and who precisely was she pandering to?
AOC’s choice to unfold the “genocide” slander towards Israel on the very birthplace of Nazism could have an affect back within the US, together with proper right here in California. Here, the “genocide” blood libel has unfold into the mainstream of our media, tradition, universities, and even our Okay-12 lecture rooms.
We have seen mobs march towards synagogues, and even faculties, repeating the identical rhetoric AOC deployed in Munich in service of her political ambitions.
Anti-Israel campaigners will certainly redouble their efforts, impressed by AOC. Likewise, pundits and influencers will measure whether or not her declare helps or hurts her political ambitions.
Last Saturday, extremely, a quarter of million protesters surged into Munich — not demonstrating towards Israel, however towards the Iranian regime.
Similar, huge protests would quickly fill the streets of London, Toronto, Tokyo, New York, and Los Angeles.
Too dangerous AOC couldn’t be bothered to talk out at Munich towards an Iranian regime guilty of crimes towards humanity towards tens of 1000’s of its own residents.
Too dangerous AOC didn’t use a nanosecond of her quarter-hour of Munich fame to signal her concern for the the struggling of the Uigurs, the Christians, or the Falon Gong in China; for Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong; or for the untold hundreds of thousands elsewhere who yearn for the very factor she arrogantly and cluelessly takes as a right: freedom.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper is affiliate dean and director of Global Social Action of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and previous chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.
