AOC accuses Israel of genocide during visit to Germany

“Squad” lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez uses appearance at town hall event in Munich, Germany, to push claims of Gaza genocide while castigating US aid to Israel.

By World Israel News Staff

New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday accused Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip while lamenting American aid to the Jewish state.

The far-left lawmaker, a member of the “Squad” of progressive House Democrats, made the comments during the Munich Security Conference in Germany.

At the town hall event, Ocasio-Cortez argued that military aid to Israel violated the so-called Leahy laws, a series of statutory provisions passed from the 1990s through the 2010s mandating that the federal government take steps to ensure that American military support is not used to commit human rights violations.

“To me, this isn’t just about a presidential election. Personally, I think that the United States has an obligation to uphold its own laws, particularly the Leahy laws,” the lawmaker said.

Ocasio-Cortez went on to accuse Israel of committing genocide during its war against the Hamas terror organization in the Gaza Strip, adding that she believes the US is guilty of enabling “gross human rights violations.”

“And I think that personally, that the idea of completely unconditional aid, no matter what one does, does not make sense. I think it enabled a genocide in Gaza. And I think that we have thousands of women and children dead that don’t, that was completely avoidable.”

“And so I believe that enforcement of our own laws through the Leahy laws, which requires conditioning aid in any circumstance when you see gross human rights violations, is appropriate.”

This is not the first time Ocasio-Cortez has accused Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.

While the Queens congresswoman initially refused to use the term “genocide” in reference to Israel’s war, by late March 2024 Ocasio-Cortez was also leveling the accusation, claiming that there was an “unfolding genocide” in the Gaza Strip.

International affairs expert Tom Gross mocked Ocasio-Cortez’s claims, calling them “preposterous.”

“AOC has flown all the way to Munich — infamous as the city in which Hitler staged his Nazi Beer Hall Putsch that marked the beginning of the road to the Holocaust — in order to smear the Jewish people further with a phony genocide allegation,” Gross told Fox News.

“Such preposterous allegations of ‘genocide’ form the bedrock of modern antisemitic incitement against Jews in the US and globally.”