Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria (AOC)
Updated 2024-07-26
2024-05-02 Breaking Down AOC Derangement Syndrome Relentlessly tearing down one of our most effective leaders undermines the capacity for progressives to win. And win we must.
But you can’t accomplish that by retreating to your in-group lefty clubhouse, talking only to your small circle of current believers, and waiting for the world to magically change. It requires a disciplined focus on winning over persuadable people, growing our movement, engaging in coalition politics, and making once-radical propositions seem reasonable, even mundane. These are all things that AOC does incredibly well. And they’re the very same proclivities that her haters use to brand her an enemy of the cause.
I’ve seen, AOC haters comprise an extremely small slice of the American left. They may be very loud on their preferred stomping ground over on X, formerly Twitter, but they do not represent the vast majority of us. What they do represent, to a profoundly precise degree, is a particular strain of leftist politics that has been an obstacle to the goals of our movement for a very long time. Indeed, one’s stance on AOC may just be the most accurate diagnostic test we’ve got of what a supposed leftist is most interested in. Do they want to change the world, or to engage in in-group masturbatory preening? Do they want to win, or do they want to lose?
Never mind that AOC has been one of the most sustained and effective critics of Biden’s uncritical support for Israel’s war; never mind that she provided arguably the highest-profile definition of Israel’s conduct in Gaza as an “unfolding genocide”; never mind, even, that she took the opportunity at that very Earth Day event to loudly praise campus protesters. the rollout of a visionary Green New Deal program that she introduced, that would almost certainly not exist without her organizing and leadership https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/aoc-biden-green-new-deal-gaza
2024-03-24 AOC doubles down calling the situation in Gaza a genocide CNN’s Jake Tapper asks Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez if she believes Israel is intentionally destroying the Palestinian people after she called on President Biden to cut off military aid to Israel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szU9lofyoS4
2024-03-22 AOC Pleads for Biden to End Israel Aid Amid ‘Unfolding Genocide’ in Gaza Progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the House floor Friday to demand a suspension of U.S. military aid to Israel as it wages a genocidal war on Gaza and deliberately starves Palestinians to death in the besieged enclave.
“As we speak, in this moment, 1.1 million innocents in Gaza are at famine’s door. A famine that is being intentionally precipitated through the blocking of food and global humanitarian assistance by leaders in the Israeli government,” https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-israel-gaza
2023-11-15 AOC Leads New Cease-Fire Push as Gaza Children Suffer [MEK Note: Mark DeSaulnier’s name is missing on this letter to President Biden calling for a ceasefire.]
Twenty-four House members led by Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mark Pocan, and Betty McCollum sent a letter to President Joe Biden Wednesday renewing calls for a cease-fire in Gaza.
The letter writers emphasized in particular how Israel’s ongoing bombardment has impacted Gaza’s 1 million children. The attack has killed 4,506 children and injured at least 7,695, while at least 1,755 are missing, most likely trapped beneath rubble. Israeli soldiers and settlers have also killed at least 51 children in the West Bank in the last 39 days.
“We are profoundly shocked by the grave violations of children’s rights in the context of armed conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the representatives wrote. “International norms require that all parties to an armed conflict protect children and prevent the commission of grave violations against them, including killing and maiming, attacks on schools and hospitals, recruitment and use of children, abduction of children, and denial of humanitarian access.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-cease-fire-gaza-children
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