Red paint attack follows no vote on amendment to cut anti-missile funds – despite her rejection of $600m Israel aid bill

Red paint attack follows no vote on amendment to cut anti-missile funds – despite her rejection of $600m Israel aid bill

A Bronx office of the US House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was vandalized early on Monday, according to New York City police, who say they are investigating.

The vandalism occurred as the progressive Democratic congresswoman grapples with “threats on [her] life”, as her campaign manager put it, after a recent US House of Representatives vote involving American aid to Israel.

Officers called out to Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign office in Westchester Square at about 12.45am found its front covered in red paint, police said. Images circulating online and on local news media outlets showed someone had left a sign which alleged that Ocasio-Cortez “funds genocide in Gaza”, though she has repeatedly criticized the Israeli military’s strikes there.

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netMEnglish
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    9 days ago

    See tankies AOC believes in a diplomatic solution to the genocide in Gaza and in order for there to be a diplomatic solution between Palestine and Israel there must be an Israel. That’s why actually funding Isreal is a good thing actually and why by trying to defund Isreal you’re the real reason the genocide is happening!

    Or something I dunno I have more than zero brain cells