AOC Calls Out Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, After Democrats Get BANNED From Israel

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for banning Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Ilhan Omar back in 2019.

AOC stated “Almost all of the at least 18 House Democrats who called for a cease-fire in Gaza are people of color.”

She continued “I found it shocking when, in 2019, or 2020 in our first term of the House of Representatives, when Prime Minister Netanyahu banned two United States sitting members of Congress from coming to Israel. Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar … from entering the country. ”

President Trump previously agreed with Tlaib and Omar being banned from entering Israel and stand back in 2019 “It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep. Tlaib to visit. They hate Israel & all Jewish people, & there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds. Minnesota and Michigan will have a hard time putting them back in office. They are a disgrace!”

NEW: Congresswoman @AOC astonished at the lack of response from Congress when Prime Minister @netanyahu prohibited two sitting U.S. Congress members, Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, from visiting Israel, says that was an insult to America. WATCHpic.twitter.com/90jCkCpG54

— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) October 23, 2023

It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep.Tlaib to visit. They hate Israel & all Jewish people, & there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds. Minnesota and Michigan will have a hard time putting them back in office. They are a disgrace!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 15, 2019

Per Fox News:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., called out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday for his 2019 decision to ban Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from visiting Israel.

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Ocasio-Cortez joined MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan on Sunday and was asked about what the left-wing host called “congressional indifference to Palestinian life.”

“Almost all of the at least 18 House Democrats who called for a cease-fire in Gaza are people of color. How much of the congressional indifference to Palestinian life in Gaza, the refusal in D.C. to acknowledge sometimes the humanity and innocence, not to mention the suffering of all ordinary Gazans, how much of that is driven by the fact that they’re Arabs? Or they’re mostly all Muslims? Or they don’t look like us, do you think?” Hasan asked.

Ocasio-Cortez said she thought the “ignoring and the sidelining” of Palestinians in Congress was “quite shocking.”

“We’ve been trying to raise the alarm bells around this for years. There has been virtually no acknowledgment in the United States House of Representatives about the extreme plight and continued human rights violations of the Palestinian people for years. I find it alarming. I found it shocking,” she said.

“I found it shocking when, in 2019, or 2020 in our first term of the House of Representatives, when Prime Minister Netanyahu banned two United States sitting members of Congress from coming to Israel. Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar … from entering the country. That my own colleagues did not seem to say or do much of anything. That should be an affront to our entire government and country,” Ocasio-Cortez continued.

Rep. @AOC: “I found it shocking when … when PM Netanyahu banned two U.S. sitting members of Congress from coming to Israel, Reps. Rashida Tlaib & Ilhan Omar … my own colleagues did not seem to say or do much of anything. That should be an affront to our entire gov’t & country” pic.twitter.com/y8FGfbhGCP

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 23, 2023

Per Mediate:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) accused her fellow Democrats of lacking concern for the abuse of Palestinians in Gaza, which she connected to Benjamin Netanyahu, slamming the Israeli prime minister’s past policies in dealing with the ongoing conflict.

Ocasio-Cortez joined the MSNBC host to talk about the current state of the war in Israel. After discussing the strain of resources, Hasan noted that “almost all of the at least 18 House Democrats who called for a ceasefire in Gaza are people of color.”

“How much of the congressional indifference to Palestinian life in Gaza, the refusal in D.C. to acknowledge sometimes the humanity and innocence, not to mention the suffering of all ordinary Gazans. How much of that is driven by the fact that they’re Arabs?” Hasan asked. “Or they’re Muslims? Or they don’t look like us?”

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