Red paint attack follows no vote on amendment to cut anti-missile funds – despite her rejection of $600m Israel aid bill

A Bronx office of the US House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was vandalized early on Monday, according to New York City police, who say they are investigating.

The vandalism occurred after Ocasio-Cortez on Friday voted against a defense spending bill amendment authored by the Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia that would have eliminated funding for the system protecting Israel from missiles.

Her vote on Greene’s amendment prompted the Democratic Socialists of America to issue a statement accusing Ocasio-Cortez of backing Israel’s “eliminationist campaign against the Palestinian people”.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Well, this was pretty much Kamala’s stance on the issue yet millions in the US had no problem voting for her, and those that did take a stand against her decided fascism in the US was a good compromise. I’m not saying she’s right and I’m just as pissed at her for her vote. I’m just saying that shortsightedness accomplishes next to nothing. The only thing being pissed off at AOC accomplishes is making the other side, and Israel itself, more powerful in the long run. And we are actively going after AOC specifically and not even holding all the other people that voted for it accountable.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
      15·
      4 days ago

      Last election Democrats tried defending genocide instead of pushing their politicians to do better. Look where that got you. Are you still refusing to learn from it? Stop trying to defend it already.

      And we are actively going after AOC specifically and not even holding all the other people that voted for it accountable.

      https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/aoc-is-a-genocidal-con-artist

      People who say you should criticize AOC less because there are way worse members of congress act like she’s just passively sitting there being a mediocre lawmaker. She’s not. She’s actively anchoring the leftmost edge of the Overton window of US politics to militarism, capitalism, colonialism, and genocide. She’s actively stopping American politics from moving any further left than the nightmare we see before us.

      Leftists shouldn’t hate AOC less than the politicians to her right, they should hate her much more. It isn’t Mike Johnson’s responsibility to move the US government to the left, and it’s not Nancy Pelosi’s job. It’s hers. That’s what she was elected to do. That’s what she framed the goals of her entire political career as being. And she’s taking her stand firmly bracing against any leftward movement from America’s genocidal, warmongering, unjust, exploitative, tyrannical status quo.