Pro-Palestine vandals defaced the New York office of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) on Sunday after the leftist legislator voted against cutting security aid to the Jewish state, the New York Post reported.
The vandals wrote in red paint that the congresswoman “funds genocide in Gaza”.
The Boogie Down Liberation Front, which claimed responsibility for the damage, stated that “the Bronx is sick and tired of people like AOC and [fellow New York Representative] Ritchie Torres using us as a stepping stone for their own political careers.”
The group added that the Bronx “stands with the people of Palestine” and denounced Ocasio-Cortez for alleged “hypocrisy”.
A frequent and outspoken critic of Israel, Ocasio-Cortez voted against an amendment proposed by Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene that would have cut about $500 million from Israel’s defense systems in the defense appropriations bill.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course, I voted against it,” Ocasio-Cortez stated. “What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to continue.”
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