AOC Blasts 'Insurrectionist-Supporting' AIPAC After Progressives Lose Democratic Primaries

7 months ago

Speaking to CNN's Manu Raju, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) slammed AIPAC and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

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00:00versus what, you know, other groups in that space are doing to stay there?

00:04Yeah, and I think they function like a lot of big money, a lot of the big money lobbies

00:08that are corrupting a lot of our policies.

00:10Big Oil, the NRA, AIPAC, Big Pharma, they take a very similar role in a lot of our elections.

00:18What do you make of just last night, two more progressive members in Democratic primaries

00:23didn't make it through? More centrist members did.

00:25Yeah.

00:26Are you disappointed about that?

00:27Well, I think, once again, we've always dealt with the fact that progressives are not sponsored

00:34and don't take money from these big corporate lobbies.

00:38And, you know, as I kind of said earlier, you get in these elections, primary elections,

00:43general elections, Big Oil gets involved.

00:45You get Big Pharma that gets involved.

00:48You get these corporate Wall Street lobbies that pour in money.

00:51And you have AIPAC, which is a right-wing, insurrectionist-supporting, pro-Netanyahu

01:01lobbying organization that also wants to ensure that there are no voices that have any sort

01:08of dissent to the way that the Netanyahu administration is prosecuting the war on Gaza

01:14and the violations of human rights of Palestinians.

01:16Did it disappoint you that Democratic leaders got behind those more centrist candidates?

01:21The candidates, I think, are separate, are a different question.

01:25I find it extremely disappointing that anybody would align themselves with an organization

01:31that supports the Republicans who wanted to overturn the election, that engaged in a very

01:37kind of explicitly racist and divisive form of campaigning.

01:41And also, AIPAC is an organization that takes money from Republicans and spends against Democrats.

01:46And I don't think it's something that the party should align itself with.

01:49What if Schumer invites Netanyahu to come speak to the House?

01:52Pardon?

01:53What if Schumer invites Netanyahu to address the House?

01:56I just don't think it's constructive for Netanyahu to be addressing, to be doing a joint address

02:01in this moment, period, regardless of dissent.

02:04Good round of votes.

02:05Thank you.

AOC Blasts 'Insurrectionist-Supporting' AIPAC After Progressives Lose Democratic Primaries

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