Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had called for a permanent cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas, but had resisted labeling the conflict a genocide.
Let’s not whatabout them. If she had been turning a blind eye to it I think their comments would be justified regardless of how trash the rest of Congress is or is not. This person is just flat-out wrong, though, she did not wait 5 months to say something.
Are there other US representatives or senators that called this war a genocide?
Yes, the only Palestinian-American in the Senate, which makes it all the more important we protect Palestine
There is not. So she is the first and only of the 435.
Doesn’t take away that it took her 5 months to call it that when it was obvious that it was a genocide at a much earlier date.
Let’s not whatabout them. If she had been turning a blind eye to it I think their comments would be justified regardless of how trash the rest of Congress is or is not. This person is just flat-out wrong, though, she did not wait 5 months to say something.