AOC accuses Israel of genocide in Germany where Holocaust was launched, sparking outrage

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AOC slammed implicit Israel 'genocide' comments

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez spoke during a municipality hallway astatine the Munich Security Conference successful Germany wherever she claimed U.S. assistance "enabled a genocide successful Gaza." (Credit: Munich Security Conference)

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., alleged astatine the Munich Security Conference connected Friday that U.S. assistance to the Jewish authorities enabled a genocide against Israel. AOC’s onslaught connected the Jewish authorities successful Munich unfolded successful the birthplace of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi question that carried retired the worst genocide successful quality history.

AOC’s battle connected Israel’s warfare run to decision the U.S. and EU-designated violent question successful the Gaza Strip sparked outrage and aggravated disapproval from world subject and Middle East experts.

During the municipality hallway lawsuit successful Munich, the Squad subordinate said, "To me, this isn't conscionable astir a statesmanlike election. Personally, I deliberation that the United States has an work to uphold its ain laws, peculiarly the Leahy laws. And I deliberation that personally, that the thought of wholly unconditional aid, nary substance what 1 does, does not marque sense. I deliberation it enabled a genocide successful Gaza. And I deliberation that we person thousands of women and children dormant that don't, that was wholly avoidable."

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY., speaks during the Munich Security Conference (MSC) successful Munich, Germany, Feb. 13, 2026. (Liesa Johannssen/Reuters)

She continued, "And, truthful I judge that enforcement of our ain laws done the Leahy laws, which requires conditioning assistance successful immoderate circumstance, erstwhile you spot gross quality rights violations, is appropriate."

The Leahy Laws prohibit the Department of Defense and the State Department from backing "foreign information unit units erstwhile determination is credible accusation that the portion has committed a ‘gross usurpation of quality rights." Former Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT., introduced the measure successful 1997.

Tom Gross, an adept connected planetary affairs, told Fox News integer that "AOC has flown each the mode to Munich — infamous arsenic the metropolis successful which Hitler staged his Nazi Beer Hall Putsch that marked the opening of the roadworthy to the Holocaust — successful bid to smear the Jewish radical further with a phony genocide allegation."

Gross added, "Such preposterous allegations of ‘genocide’ signifier the bedrock of modern antisemitic incitement against Jews successful the U.S. and globally. This shocking ignorance and insensitivity by Ocasio-Cortez should regularisation her retired of immoderate imaginable statesmanlike bid oregon different precocious office."

memorial astatine  Nova euphony  festival

Memorials astatine the tract of the Oct. 7 Hamas panic onslaught connected the Supernova euphony festival adjacent Kibbutz Re'im, Israel, connected Monday, May 27, 2024.  (Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Military experts and genocide researchers person debunked the allegation that Israel carried retired a genocide against Palestinians during its self-defense warfare against the Hamas violent enactment that started aft Hamas terrorists attacked communities successful parts of confederate Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023 that saw implicit 1200 Israeli and overseas nationals killed and 251 brutally kidnapped and taken into Gaza by Hamas and different terrorists.

Hamas terrorists, Gaza

Hamas terrorists question to Gazans during Sunday's merchandise of 3 Israeli hostages. (TPS-IL)

Danny Orbach, a subject historiographer from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and co-author of "Debunking the Genocide Allegations: A Reexamination of the Israel-Hamas War from October 7 2023, to June 1, 2025," told Fox News Digital that Ocasio-Cortez accusation that Israel committed genocide is an "accusation that is incorrect some factually and legally. Under the Genocide Convention, genocide requires impervious of a peculiar intent to destruct a protected group, successful full oregon successful part, and arsenic a baseline condition, an progressive effort to maximize civilian destruction.

"The grounds shows the opposite: arsenic demonstrated successful our multi-author survey Debunking the Genocide Allegations, Israel undertook unprecedented measures to mitigate civilian harm, including establishing humanitarian harmless zones that independently verified information amusement were astir six times safer than different areas of Gaza."

Kibbutz massacre

An Israeli worker patrols adjacent Kibbutz Beeri successful confederate Israel connected Oct. 12, 2023, adjacent to the spot wherever 270 revelers were killed by terrorists during the Supernova euphony festival connected Oct 7.  (Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images)

Orbach added, "Israel besides issued elaborate beforehand warnings earlier strikes and facilitated the introduction of implicit 2 cardinal tons of humanitarian aid, often astatine important outgo to its ain subject advantage, including the nonaccomplishment of astonishment and the sustainment of an force during wartime."

He concluded, "These measures were taken contempt Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, its systematic usage of quality shields and hospitals for subject purposes, and a passageway web exceeding 1,000 kilometers — an operational situation without humanities precedent. Finally, nary credible grounds demonstrates the benignant of unambiguous, exclusive genocidal intent toward Palestinians that planetary instrumentality requires and that cannot beryllium reasonably interpreted otherwise."

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The blimpish commentator Derek Hunter posted connected X. "Imagine going to Germany to kick astir a fake genocide by Jews...in Munich, of each places. @AOC is astir arsenic astute arsenic clogged toilet."

In Dec. 2024, Germany joined the U.S. successful rejecting the allegations that Israel committed genocide successful Gaza.

Benjamin Weinthal reports connected Israel, Iran, Syria, Turkey and Europe. You tin follow Benjamin on Twitter @BenWeinthal, and email him astatine [email protected]

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