AOC criticizes Israel over ‘genocide’ comment
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez spoke during a town hall at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, where she claimed that US aid “enabled the genocide in Gaza.” (Credit: Munich Security Conference)
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. alleged at the Munich Security Conference on Friday that US aid to the Jewish state enabled genocide by Israel. The AOC’s attack on the Jewish state in Munich took place in the birthplace of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi movement, which carried out the worst genocide in human history.
The AOC’s attack on Israel’s combat campaign to defeat Hamas, the US and EU-designated terrorist movement in the Gaza Strip, drew outrage and intense criticism from academic military and Middle East experts.
During a town hall event in Munich, the squad member said, “For me, this is not just about a presidential election. Personally, I think the United States has an obligation to uphold its own laws, especially the Leahy laws. And I personally think the idea of completely unconditional aid, no matter what anyone does, makes no sense. I think it enabled the genocide in Gaza. And I think we have thousands of There are women and children who have died, this was completely avoidable.”
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, speaks during the Munich Security Conference (MSC) on February 13, 2026 in Munich, Germany. (Lisa Johansen/Reuters)
He added, “And, so I believe that enforcing our own laws through the Leahy laws, which require conditioning assistance in any circumstances, when you see gross human rights violations, is appropriate.”
The Leahy Law prohibits the Department of Defense and State Department from funding “foreign security force units when there is credible information that the unit has committed ‘gross violations of human rights.'” Former Senator Patrick Leahy, D-VT, introduced the bill in 1997.
International affairs expert Tom Gross told Fox News Digital that “AOC flew to Munich – infamous as the city where Hitler staged his Nazi Beer Hall Putsch, which marked the beginning of the road to genocide – in order to falsely accuse the Jewish people of genocide.”
Gross said, “Such absurd allegations of ‘genocide’ form the basis of modern anti-Semitism against Jews in the US and globally. Ocasio-Cortez’s shocking ignorance and insensitivity should cause her to be barred from any potential presidential or other high office.”
Memorial at the site of the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7 at the Supernova music festival near Kibbutz Reim, Israel, on Monday, May 27, 2024. (Coby Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Military experts and genocide researchers have rejected allegations that Israel committed genocide against Palestinians during its self-defense war against the Hamas terrorist organization, which began after Hamas militants attacked communities in parts of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing more than 1200 Israeli and foreign civilians and brutally abducting 251 and Was taken to Gaza by Hamas and other terrorists.
Hamas militants wave to Gazans during the release of three Israeli hostages on Sunday. (TPS-IL)
Danny Orbach, a military historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and co-author of “Debunking the Genocide Allegation: A Reexamination of the Israel-Hamas War from October 7, 2023 to June 1, 2025,” told Fox News Digital that Ocasio-Cortez’s allegation that Israel committed genocide is an “allegation that is factually and legally false.” Under the Convention, genocide requires proof of specific intent to destroy a protected group in whole or in part, and, as a baseline condition, an active effort to maximize civilian destruction.
“The evidence shows the opposite: As our multi-author study rejecting genocide allegations shows, Israel took unprecedented measures to reduce civilian casualties, including establishing humanitarian safe zones, which independently verified data show were nearly six times safer than other areas of Gaza.”
An Israeli soldier patrols near Kibbutz Biri in southern Israel on October 12, 2023, close to the site where terrorists killed 270 revelers during the Supernova music festival on October 7. (Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images)
Orbach said, “Israel also issued detailed advance warnings before the attacks and facilitated the entry of more than two million tons of humanitarian aid, often at significant cost to its own military advantage, including loss of surprise and retention of the enemy during the war.”
They concluded, “These measures were taken despite Hamas’s 7 October massacre, systematic use of human shields and hospitals for military purposes, and tunnel network more than 1,000 kilometers long – an operational challenge without historical precedent. In conclusion, no credible evidence demonstrates the kind of clear, specific genocidal intent toward Palestinians that international law requires and that cannot reasonably be interpreted otherwise.”
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Conservative commentator Derek Hunter posted on X. “Imagine going to Germany to complain about the fake massacre of Jews, of all places, in Munich. @AOC is about as smart as a clogged toilet.”
In December 2024, Germany joined with the US in rejecting allegations that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza.
