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AOC criticizes Biden statement of support for Israel as siding with ‘occupation’

May 13, 2021

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.,criticized President Biden over his Wednesday statement of support for Israel amid escalating violence with Hamas, claiming he gave little context for what stoked the tensions and was consequently “siding with occupation.”

Biden told reporters Israel has a right to defend itself “when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory.”

Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that Biden had failed to mention the pending evictions of dozens of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem in favor of Israelis and the Israeli police raid of the Al-Aqsa mosque that left hundreds of worshippers hurt as an instigator to Hamas’ rocket attacks.

She said statements that don’t recognize Israel’s role in the violence “dehumanize Palestinians & imply the US will look the other way at human rights violations. It’s wrong.”

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