This is what a hypocrite looks like…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) refused Sunday to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp, after a Jewish group had invited her to tour that camp and others this summer to educate herself about the facts of the Holocaust.
Last Monday evening, Ocasio-Cortez compared detention facilities for illegal aliens caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to “concentration camps,” adding the phrase “never again,” which commonly refers to the Nazi Holocaust.
The remark drew outrage and criticism, even from fellow Democrats. Nevertheless, Ocasio-Cortez doubled down, first claiming that she had not been referring to Nazi Germany, then drawing parallels to the U.S. internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War. “I will never apologize for calling these camps what they are,” she tweeted.
Alan Dershowitz, who recently said he would support Joe Biden over President Donald Trump in 2020, said Ocasio-Cortez’s “concentration camp” claim made her a “Holocaust denier.” Bill Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, and a determined foe of President Trump, criticized her on his show Friday evening: “If you want to run a campaign based on reparations and concentration camps then it’s going to be very hard to win the election.” Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (who is also a Breitbart News contributor) published a full-page ad in the New York Times:
Our full page ad in today’s @nytimes countering @AOC trivialization of the #holocaust. We must fix the humanitarian crisis on the border. But comparing it to the genocide of six million Jews desecrates the memory of the victims and the #NeverAgain commitment against genocide. pic.twitter.com/CKC7fsCRUq
— Rabbi Shmuley (@RabbiShmuley) June 23, 2019
Numerous Holocaust educational foundations, including Israel’s Yad Vashem, offered to educate Ocasio-Cortez. Senior Yad Vashem historian Robert Rozett wrote in response to Ocasio-Cortez’s use of the term “concentration camp”:
The term “concentration camps” has become a commonly used term for an array of Nazi camps all characterized by profound inhumanity and suffering. Even Auschwitz-Birkenau – the most infamous of the Nazi camps where more than one million people were murdered– was officially termed a Konzentrationslager (Concentration camp) in German.
One group, From the Depths, issued an open invitation Friday for Ocasio-Cortez to join it on a tour of Holocaust sites:
We at From The Depths, would like to invite you as our guest during your summer recess from The United Congress, to join us along with Holocaust Survivor, United States Citizen and President of From The Depths, Mr. Edward Mosberg on an educational tour, specifically built for legislators, of the German Nazi Concentration Camps. The educational tour will visit Mauthausen, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek Concentration Camps, amongst many other educational sites.
But Ocasio-Cortez refused the invitation, citing the fact that Rep. Steve King (R-IA) had been on a similar tour:
The last time you went on this trip it was reported that you also met w/ fringe Austrian neo-Nazi groups to talk shop.
So I’m going to have to decline your invite. But thank you for revealing to all how transparently the far-right manipulates these moments for political gain. https://t.co/TQkaPEESoD
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 23, 2019
King was rebuked by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year for appearing to support white supremacy. The Washington Post reported last year that he had met with a far-right Austrian group after completing his tour of Holocaust sites with From the Depths, which denied any knowledge of his subsequent travel plans in Europe.
In May, President Donald Trump sent the first-ever official U.S. government delegation to the March of the Living, an annual march between Auschwitz and the Birkenau death camp nearby that commemorates victims of the Holocaust.
Src: Breitbart
Typical left wing. She doesn’t want to know the truth.
This is why she won’t debate anyone on the Right because she does know they will show the Country just how ignorant she really is. I mean what one Country in History is known to have had concentration camps ? Germany. It is obvious her education was paid for by her benefactor Soros because anyone this stupid can’t possibly have gotten a Degree in finance from a credited college and still know absolutely nothing about everything. She even turned down a 10,000 dollar donation to debate one Jewish speaker because she knows again she can’t defend her positions on any topic.
People who refuse to look for the truth. That’s AOC and followers. Waste of human space.
She stepped out of line here. There is no easy comparison of the the Latino immigration attempt into America versus the Jewish Holocaust in Europe. Only the African slave Middle Passage is greater than the Jewish Holocaust, but they’ll never allow that to be placed above their tragedy because that would diminish their efforts to continue extorting billions of dollars of aid from the U.S.
Why is it, whenever slavery is brought up, it’s always referred to as a uniquely American issue? Slavery has existed in every corner of the world, on every habitable continent since before the written word. Every culture engaged in slavery, either directly or indirectly. It’s a sad chapter in the story of the ascent of mankind. That it existed here, is not in doubt, but it isn’t and wasn’t an American idea, simply the result of the British, French, Spanish and other earlier settlers that established it England was able to ban it first in the UK, but it was several years before it was banned in the outer fringe of their empire. The fact that it was her and continued to exist in our nation was the result of compromises made when the States first formed a Union. It was a can of worms kicked down the road until 1861, when a great war was fought and 600,00+ men laid down their lives to end it. Only in Nazi Germany’s use of Slave Labor (from 1933 to 1945) do the two issues compare. Slaves were valued property, and as such, working them to death or severely abusing them wasn’t sound financially for an agrarian based economy. Yes, there was abuse and outright murder, but not every slave owner treated their slaves that way. The Nazi’s worked their slaves to death from day one, as it was part of their “Final Solution” to what to do with the Jews. Slaves in the US weren’t singled out for systemic extermination (they were to valuable). That’s a big difference between the two situations. Look up the estimated enslavement perpetuated by the Islamic faith, and America’s slavery problem pales in comparison. Jannisaries, European young boys captured in conquest, denied their faith and immersed by force into Islam. The fact that it’s still going on in parts of the Middle East and Africa should enrage everyone. Look up the estimated percentages of the freed slaves that returned to their former masters to work as laborers. The numbers aren’t insignificant.
What a p$ssy she is. She can dish it out but can’t take it. What a loser….your true colors are getting more and more every time you open your mouth without using what little brain you have. You are such a blessing to Trump’s re-election and WE THE PEOPLE thank you. Geesh
At least she can provide hard evidence about the concentration camps she claims our own country is now maintaining. Either that or (gasp!), admit that she’s wrong. Ain’t gonna happen!
she doesn’t know when to keep her mouth shut! she’s like a little kid let out to play knocking over everything that gets in her way! I sure don’t know where they found this piece of crap but they should definitely send her back & maybe teach her some history lessons! she should know what she’s talking about before she opens her mouth!
If you put a pile of dung next to this freak, one could NOT tell the difference.
Yah, she is worried that doing such will explain to her self what a “CREEP” and Liar she herself Really is !!!
This woman just has no class, to accuse the From the Depths group of meeting with Neo-Nazi or even King unless you have proof of this and know what the reason was (-perhaps trying to educate them as well if it did happen,) is outrageous, inflammatory, and defamation.
Good try though at squeezing out of a trip you would never go on as then you would have to admit you were Wrong- and we all know when that happens you are worse then Fonzie from Happy days in admitting it. She and the cows she has formed her little club with are all anti-semites who use the Holocaust and the word Nazi as tools to manipulate and frighten decent people into agreeing with their twisted agenda and mindless mutterings.
Please AOC shut your mouth and leave the speaking to people who have a brain.
If this little twitt wasn`t so ignorant and uninformed she might realize at some point that she should stop talking.
Ignorance shines brighter than her brain. No respect from the little bartender.
The highest form of ignorance is to try and discuss a subject of which one has no knowledge whatsoever. She proves this time and time again when she opens her mouth!
she should be put in one of them places ,to see what the people had to deal with during world war 2 ,german extemination camps she has no brains may not have any results
have all no brainers in congress !
Lets try and make her a ONE TERM POS, a BIG NO VOTE for AOC. next election, she should not make it to 2nd term.,
This creature is an escapee from some asylum if she will not accept the well documented evils of the Nazi Regime’s Holocaust atrocities against all Jews and others considered inferiors to the Germanic “Master Race!” She is a complete and utter dolt, if she does NOT realize that she SHOULD visit Auschwitz in order to have any credibility whatsoever with educated people and pragmatic realists who think her to be uninformed and a prevaricating, parasitical pundit with little in her pitiful performance record to indicate WHY she was EVER elected in the first place and her first act caused the loss of 25,000 jobs and $3 billion in revenue from Amazon! She will have a VERY difficult time as it is being re-elected and her phony acting job at the border over posing in tears over the conditions at a holding center for illegal children; IN A PARKING LOT WITH NO CHILDREN PRESENT, should be taken as what it was: an attempt to “deceive the American Public and enhance her position. She has FAR too much unearned influence and let us hope that as Rodger Shull CLEARLY states; we NEED to make her a one term terminal cancer to Freedom and choices and Constitutional compliance to the Constitution and Rule of Law so ignored disdained and obstructed by the lunatic left of which SHE is one of the most demented! Id you are an American citizen, native born or legally naturalized , you count for NOTHING with these swamp slime slitherers. Their ONLY concerns are for taking YOUR assets to give them in some form to these Foreign Felons by definition the minute they cross into this country in violation of long existing though long unenforced immigration laws, thanks to the Obstruction of the for decades by the democrats who will NOT even TRY to address the problems caused by their incompetence. None of them should ever be retained in office, they belong in prison, NEVER OFFICE!