{"id":1175421,"date":"2021-12-31T12:04:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T17:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1175421"},"modified":"2021-12-31T12:04:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T17:04:38","slug":"ocasio-cortez-staffer-calls-israel-racist-european-ethnostate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ocasio-cortez-staffer-calls-israel-racist-european-ethnostate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez Staffer Calls Israel \u2018Racist European Ethnostate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Focasio-cortez-staffer-calls-israel-racist-european-ethnostate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1175421&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Christmas Eve, a staffer for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called Israel \u201ca racist European ethnostate built on stolen land from its indigenous population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hussain Altamimi, who began his tenure as a legislative assistant to Ocasio-Cortez last month, &nbsp;posted an Instagram story in which he wrote, \u201cIsrael is a racist European ethnostate built on stolen land from its indigenous population!\u201d Fox News Digital took a screenshot of the post.<\/p>\n<p>Altamimi was responding to &nbsp;a post from an account that stated: \u201cThis reveals the principle underpinning Israeli apartheid: It\u2019s not about where you\u2019re born. It\u2019s about whether you\u2019re Jewish or non-Jewish. Your ethnicity determines your rights [and] level in the racial hierarchy. \u2026 Israel is an exclusive ethnostate, established to serve one ethnic group at the expense of another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CQZPjlINfli\/\">One post&nbsp;<\/a>by the account is titled \u2018The Ethnic Cleansing of Jerusalem\u2019 and claims Israel has been engaging in the \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d of Palestinians since taking control of East Jerusalem in the late 1960s,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/ocasio-cortez-staffer-calls-israel-204526717.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKNeBVv1HBJ0s3vcondNqKLcardLATUShftAfHDd-GDcVYuJtAIkP9coYVpECIY6OYY_9swzXxHcbZYX3gGlRSGkf2X9FYjhJLSdpiXxGLhi5A-03KzIi-3-LXUH8WnSQLYRLpdX-R4JdQetn71hM-v-ifmKhxWYq-koiTxDXQt-\">Yahoo News<\/a> reported. \u201cAnother post presents \u201ckey Palestinian actors\u201d as Pok\u00e9mon cards \u2014 including the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CTIGFaht6ct\/\">terrorist organizations&nbsp;<\/a>Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In September, Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aoc-slammed-for-crying-after-iron-dome-funded-shedding-tears-that-less-israelis-are-going-to-die\">appeared to cry<\/a> after the House passed a bill to fund Israel\u2019s Iron Dome, which protects the Jewish state from rocket attacks from the terrorist groups Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez did not support funding Iron Dome, which intercepted approximately 90% of the rockets fired out of Gaza in May 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2019 Ocasio-Cortez said that Palestinians \u201chave no choice but to riot\u201d against Israel in an interview on \u201cEbro in the Morning\u201d with host Ebro Darden. The Daily Wire <a href=\"denied:applewebdata:\/\/4ffc0920-6dc3-4fa7-8382-b88b5aeb1298\/v\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Ocasio-Cortez \u201cabsolutely\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/50075\/watch-ocasio-cortez-agrees-you-can-absolutely-have-molly-prince\">agreed<\/a>&nbsp;with Darden that Israel was \u201cvery, very criminal\u201d and \u201cvery, very unjust,\u201d as Darden claimed there are \u201cwhite supremacist Jews.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Later in the interview, Ocasio-Cortez justified violence from the Palestinian people against Israel, saying: \u201cI believe that injustice is a threat to the safety of all people, because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalized and marginalized \u2014 once someone doesn\u2019t have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot, right?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In July 2018, in an interview on PBS\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d with host Margaret Hoover, Ocasio-Cortez called Israel the \u201coccupiers\u201d of \u201cPalestine.\u201d One critic fired back at her, \u201cDear @Ocasio2018, Keep my country\u2019s name out of your mouth. Your ignorance re Israel and the Palestinian conflict is not bliss. All you\u2019re doing is inciting against Israelis (Jews), while stuttering to make sense. Stay in your lane, and educate yourself, child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dear @Ocasio2018,<br \/>Keep my country\u2019s name out of your mouth. Your ignorance re Israel and the Palestinian conflict is not bliss. All you\u2019re doing is inciting against Israelis (Jews), while stuttering to make sense. Stay in your lane, and educate yourself, child. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2RdZFkaxAt\">https:\/\/t.co\/2RdZFkaxAt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ((( Rebecca ))) \ud83c\udf40 \ud83c\udfc0 (@dorothyofisrael) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dorothyofisrael\/status\/1018843147265245184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another critic echoed: \u201cI don\u2019t know this woman\u2019s politics, and I no longer live in the US. Her ignorance of the conflict does not keep her declaring who is right and who is wrong. This is indicative of most people who speak about Israel\/Palestinian conflict. Utterly decisive in their utter ignorance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don&#8217;t know this woman&#8217;s politics, and I no longer live in the US. Her ignorance of the conflict does not keep her declaring who is right and who is wrong. This is indicative of most people who speak about Israel\/Palestinian conflict. Utterly decisive in their utter ignorance. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qpr8Rq9FXT\">https:\/\/t.co\/Qpr8Rq9FXT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll (@skjask) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/skjask\/status\/1018785779512958977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Christmas Eve, a staffer for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called Israel \u201ca racist European ethnostate built on stolen land from its indigenous population.\u201d Hussain Altamimi, who began his tenure as a legislative assistant to Ocasio-Cortez last month, \u00a0posted an Instagram story in which he wrote, \u201cIsrael is a racist European ethnostate built on stolen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}