Over the weekend, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who consistently attacks Israel, tweeted yet another attack as she accused Israel of being an apartheid state, writing, “Apartheid states aren’t democracies.”
That tweet prompted an Israeli Arab who is also Muslim to fire back, “I’m an Israeli-Arab and a Muslim and I’m a proud Israeli. We are fighting Hamas terrorists who hijacked our religion while you tweet about something you know nothing about. Stfu!!!”
As the Anti-Defamation League noted, “Jewish Voice for Peace is a radical anti-Israel activist group that advocates for a complete economic, cultural and academic boycott of the state of Israel… JVP considers supporters of Israel, or even critics of Israel who do not hew to JVP’s own extreme views, to be complicit in Israel’s purported acts of racist oppression of Palestinians. JVP leaders believe that expressing support for Israel, or not challenging mainstream Jewish organizations that support Israel, must also be viewed as an implicit attack on people of color and all marginalized groups in the United States.”
J Street has long been seen as anti-Israel. As far back as 2010 attorney Alan Dershowitz wrote, “It claims to be ‘a pro-Israel, pro peace lobby.’ It has now become neither.”
Paul Miller noted in The Hill in 2014, “J Street partners with the rabidly anti-Semitic Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a group in the forefront of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement.
An SJP document recently uncovered by the education watchdog group AMCHA Initiative reveals SJP plans to target, ostracize, harass and silence pro-Israel students. These are the bigots J Street deems ‘pro-Israel, pro-peace.’”
In 2017, the university arm of J Street called for the Jewish community to take “a new approach” and stop “demonizing” the BDS movement, which stands for boycotting, divesting from and sanctioning Israel.
In July 2019, Ocasio-Cortez justified violence from the Palestinian people against Israel. “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’t have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot, right?” she said.
In that same interview, the host claimed, “what’s going on with Israel and Palestine — while it’s very, very deep — it is very, very criminal and it is very, very unjust.” Ocasio-Cortez replied, “Absolutely. I think to where we’re at as a country when it comes to Israel-Palestine is very much a generational issue.”
The Arab Muslim who responded to Ocasio-Cortez, Mohammad Kabiya, is an Israeli Bedouin who served in the IDF on a search and rescue team in the Israeli Air Force and later served as an IDF consultant and pro-Israel activist.
This is an excerpt from The Daily Wire.
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