Washington – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., declined the invitation of a Poland-born Holocaust survivor from New Jersey to tour Auschwitz together following her remarks about concentration camps.
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Edward Mosberg, 93, on Friday extended the invitation to the Democratic lawmaker. A week ago, Ocasio-Cortez touched off a heated debate in the media about her use of the term, which is widely associated with Nazi Germany, to describe migrant detention centers in the United States.
Ocasio-Cortez tweeted the rejection of the invitation in response to a tweet from Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who called on her to visit the Nazi camp with Mosberg and the Holocaust commemoration group he leads, From the Depths. King was removed in January from two House committees after he said he wondered why the term “white supremacist” had become offensive.
“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,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.
Meanwhile, the New York Times over the weekend published a full-page ad which was headlined, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, stop desecrating the Holocaust.” The ad, sponsored by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and his The Values Network, features a picture of Jewish concentration camp prisoners and one of the congresswoman, and reads: “Six million Jews were murdered in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. By comparing the United States to the Third Reich, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez disgraces their memory, our country and herself.”
“Democratic lawmaker ” ???? What a BOZO !!!
What did you think this jealous Puerto Rican will do
Attn. VIN! why do we have to care what a stupid girl says or does.
Steven King’s public endorsement of the invitation muddles the situation…and its a shame…for it gave Ortiz a hook of “respectability” on which to hang her refusal.
I think that The New York Times ad sponsored by R. Boteach and The Values Network should be reproduced widely and distributed to all who are running for office.
The b…h does not want to go because she is too stupid to understand what is there. She is been feed by anti-Semite george soros and that is why she can’t answer any question with a sensible answer. I have listen to her dribble on and so could not fight her way out of a paper bag. Jews we can vote for any of the democrap left. They are being funded by george soros who himself is a self hating Jew. His family converted to christainity so they would fit into nazi germany. If aoc
was run over by a truck I would feel sorry for the truck. she is no damn good and America wake up to this commie b…h
Rabbi Boteach sabotages his case by stating that all six million died in the camps.
Boteach wants to be the ‘celebrity rabbi’ to the goyim who don’t know better. He should stick with vilda chaya Roseanne. He’s the Jewish Al Sharpton.
I f the POTUS can lie every single day and some educated people are proud of it why cant a Congresswoman lie. We dont like it. Many dont like the POTUS lies.
If I remember it correctly Reagan a Republican POTUS instead of visiting Auschwitz went to visit the graves of the Nazis. Whats New?
#8 was correct, as approximately 4,000,000 were killed by Nazi mobile killing squads, starvation, diseases and by collalaborators.The other 2,000,000 were killed in the death camps.