Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s workplace within the Bronx was vandalized early on Monday by masked protesters claiming to assist Palestinian rights. They defaced her picture by splattering crimson paint throughout the home windows and left behind an indication studying “AOC funds genocide in Gaza.” The New York Democrat has additionally obtained violent threats in current days, based on her senior adviser Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben.
Final evening, our marketing campaign workplace within the Bronx was vandalized and we’re within the technique of cleansing it up. Our workplace is a hub locally and we wish it to be a protected house for all of our neighbors. Previously few days, we even have obtained a number of threats on the…
— Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben (@OliverHidWoh) July 21, 2025
For a crowd that’s supposedly preventing for Palestinian freedom, they positive have a knack for attacking precisely the unsuitable folks.
Through the 2024 presidential marketing campaign, these activists bizarrely fixated on Vice President Kamala Harris—hardly the puppet grasp of U.S. overseas coverage on Gaza—and heckled her relentlessly, even at her personal get together’s conference. They even cheered when Donald Trump gained the election, with peak absurdity displayed on this viral celebratory tweet:
Now it’s 2025, and so they’ve left Vice President JD Vance alone. I assume vice presidents haven’t any energy over Gaza, in any case?
And after dubbing former President Joe Biden “Genocide Joe,” they appear to have misplaced their creativity relating to Trump, who now has the ability to reshape U.S. coverage. As an alternative, he has overtly embraced the ethnic cleaning of Palestinians. Amongst different issues, Trump moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, defunded UNRWA, and greenlit Israel’s annexation plans. And who may neglect the video he posted of his Gaza fantasy—replete with a golden Trump idol at his Trump-branded Gaza on line casino?
But none of those pro-Palestine activists protest Trump. No chants, no silly nicknames, no disruption. Nothing.
As an alternative, they obsessively deal with Ocasio-Cortez, generally known as AOC—the true villain, apparently, of the push for peace within the Center East.
Disowned by the Democratic Socialists of America and hounded by a phase of the far left that ignores actual enemies in favor of cannibalizing allies, AOC’s newest crime was voting “no” on an modification pushed by far-right wack job Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to defund Israel’s Iron Dome missile protection system. AOC’s response was direct and principled.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s modification does nothing to chop off offensive help to Israel nor finish the circulation of US munitions being utilized in Gaza. In fact I voted towards it. What it does do is reduce off defensive Iron Dome capacities whereas permitting the precise bombs killing Palestinians to…
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 19, 2025
Solely six Home members supported that modification: Republicans Greene and Thomas Massie, who opposes all authorities spending; and Democrats Al Inexperienced, Summer time Lee, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib.
It’s a weird coalition, to place it mildly.
This was the signal left behind at AOC’s vandalized Bronx workplace.
The far proper is isolationist and opposes all overseas funding, irrespective of the context. The far left, in the meantime, insists there’s no distinction between offensive and defensive weapons—arguing that by shielding Israeli civilians from rocket assaults, Iron Dome permits additional aggression. However there’s a distinction, and it issues. As a result of any deliberate assault on civilians—whether or not Israeli or Palestinian—is terrorism, interval. Civilians ought to by no means be targets. And sure, that applies to Israel as effectively, which has proven it could actually eradicate threats surgically when it chooses to, as Hezbollah painfully discovered.
However this isn’t about untangling the limitless knot of the Israeli-Palestinian battle, which none of us can do (irrespective of how a lot yelling is finished within the feedback connected to this story). It’s about the place pro-Palestinian activists select to purpose their fireplace.
And proper now, they’re ignoring the folks gleefully fueling this struggle—Trump and his minions—and attacking folks like AOC, who’ve neither the ability nor the posture to assist genocide, and who truly agree with them on the tip aim!
Why not go after the handfuls of different Democrats who voted the identical manner AOC did—i.e., towards Greene’s stunt modification? Why not goal Republicans who assist Israeli occupation with out circumstances? Why group up with literal white supremacists like Marjorie Taylor Greene?
Fortunately, AOC didn’t mince phrases.
Google is free. In the event you’re saying I voted for army funding, you might be mendacity. Receipts connected. Drag me for my positions all you need, however mendacity about them doesn’t make you a part of the “left.” In the event you consider neo-nazis are welcome and working in good religion, you possibly can have them! pic.twitter.com/leQo1cvXTD
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 21, 2025
“If you believe neo-nazis are welcome and operating in good faith, you can have them!” she tweeted—and he or she couldn’t be extra proper.
