Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over the weekend compared the Palestinians’ experience with Jesus’ birth, causing backlash on social media.
“In the story of Christmas, Christ was born in modern-day Palestine under the threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents,” she wrote on Instagram. “He was part of a targeted population being indiscriminately killed to protect an unjust leader’s power.”
She added, “Mary and Joseph, displaced by violence and forced to flee, became refugees in Egypt with a newborn waiting to one day return home. Thousands of years later, right-wing forces are violently occupying Bethlehem as similar stories unfold for today’s Palestinians, so much so that the Christian community in Bethlehem has canceled this year’s Christmas Eve celebrations out of both safety and respect.”
Jacob Kornbluh, a senior political reporter at the Forward, bashed the New York liberal for not mentioning Hamas in her post.
“AOC describes Israel as a ’violent right-wing occupying force’ in [a] Christmas post. No mention of Hamas terror, the victims of Oct. 7 attack,” he wrote in an X post on Christmas Eve.
Pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian activist Andrea Karshan wrote on X that she wishes people “would just enjoy Christmas and stop getting so social justice political about it. I am so glad that when I was Christian I had a blast on Christmas and didn’t waste my time engaging in this nonsense. It’s so silly.”
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee bashed the Democratic lawmaker for her “utterly ignorant” Christmas message.
“She … ought to stick to something she knows, like bartending, because for God’s sake she has no clue about the history of the Middle East, Jesus, the Jewish people, the state of Israel or virtually anything else that she talked about in her post,” the Republican said on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, a member of Congress’ far-left Squad, has called for a cease-fire in Gaza.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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