Posted on 06/23/2019 5:19:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) refused Sunday to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp, after a Jewish group had invited her to tour that camp and others this summer to educate herself about the facts of the Holocaust.
Last Monday evening, Ocasio-Cortez compared detention facilities for illegal aliens caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to “concentration camps,” adding the phrase “never again,” which commonly refers to the Nazi Holocaust.
The remark drew outrage and criticism, even from fellow Democrats. Nevertheless, Ocasio-Cortez doubled down, first claiming that she had not been referring to Nazi Germany, then drawing parallels to the U.S. internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War. “I will never apologize for calling these camps what they are,” she tweeted.
Alan Dershowitz, who recently said he would support Joe Biden over President Donald Trump in 2020, said Ocasio-Cortez’s “concentration camp” claim made her a “Holocaust denier.” Bill Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, and a determined foe of President Trump, criticized her on his show Friday evening: “If you want to run a campaign based on reparations and concentration camps then it’s going to be very hard to win the election.” Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (who is also a Breitbart News contributor) published a full-page ad in the New York Times:
Numerous Holocaust educational foundations, including Israel’s Yad Vashem, offered to educate Ocasio-Cortez. Senior Yad Vashem historian Robert Rozett wrote in response to Ocasio-Cortez’s use of the term “concentration camp”:
The term “concentration camps” has become a commonly used term for an array of Nazi camps all characterized by profound inhumanity and suffering. Even Auschwitz-Birkenau – the most infamous of the Nazi camps where more than one million people were murdered– was officially termed a Konzentrationslager (Concentration camp) in German.
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She will never give up the convenience and utility of her lies.
bttt
Of course she does.
A visit there in '97 was very educational for me and my family.
Alexandria needs to be set free and only Jesus can do that for her. Her followers are in bondage, too.
(John 8:31-32) Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on Him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye My disciples indeed; And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.
...You jump from bed to bed with the frequency of a cheap ham radio!!!
Amen.
Gutless wonder.
Never let the truth stand in the way of a good hate.
Along with just about every freshman democrat.
Of course she does. She might actually learn something.
I've visited Auschwitz. To say it is chilling is a massive understatement. To walk through the gate under the Arbeit Macht Frei sign.... The bullet holes in the walls where they stood up prisoners and shot them. A warehouse filled with shoes... and you realize every pair represents a life. I believe the average lifespan for prisoners who were spared immediate execution was about two months.
All AOC wants is to hear herself talk and talk and talk
Perhaps the worst part of all this is she’s never taken the time to actually visit the border and talk with those who work there with dedication every day. She’d rather just quote hysterical articles in the left-wing press and ignorantly run her mouth about it.
No one in Congress should spout off about the border unless they’ve been there.
I can tell if a fairly decent candidate comes along to challenge her,money will pour into that challengers campaign
She needs to STOP her hate.
Because she is nothing but a DC, she is programmed from behind the curtain! Should be censured and removed from office! Pathetic piece of crap!
If these idiots in her district reelect her, they are the fools, even larger than this retromingent jackass calling herself their representative. What a sad but evil joke on us all this supreme idiot is.
Have her read “Man’s Search for Meaning”.
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