Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals Jewish ancestry at Hanukkah celebration

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You mean alef vs. hey?

No.
BemitzvoTav
Baa mitz voy soive

[Sanguine]

No.
BemitzvoTav
Baa mitz voy soive

OK, I see now.  Thanks for 'splaining it.

[Wingnut]

Ocasio-Cortez reveals her Jewish heritage: 'I knew it! I sensed it!'
The progressive Democrat said that generations ago her family consisted of Sephardic Jews.

"One of the things that we discovered about ourselves is that a very very long time ago, generations and generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews," she said, referring to Jews who are originally from Spain or the Iberian Peninsula. "And ... the story goes that during the Spanish Inquisition, so many people were forced to convert on the exterior to Catholicism, but on the interior, continued to practice their faith, continued to be who they were, even though they were pressured to not be that on the outside world."

Ocasio-Cortez, who made the comments after lighting Hanukkah candles, said some of those practitioners fled Spain, with some landing in Puerto Rico, where she descends from. Ocasio-Cortez added that the lineage showed that "so many of our destinies are tied."

On Monday morning, Ocasio-Cortez posted a series of tweets about her Jewish heritage, responding to coverage of the remarks.

Before everyone jumps one me - yes, culture isn’t DNA.



— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 10, 2018
According to Haaretz, about 300,000 Jews lived in Spain before the Catholic monarchs began the Spanish Inquisition in the late 1400s, in which all Jews and Muslims were ordered to convert to Catholicism or face expulsion or even death. The publication noted that more than 3.5 million Jews are descended from those who fled the country during the inquisition.

The Sunday revelation was not the first time Ocasio-Cortez has discussed her religion. In the Jesuit publication America Magazine, Ocasio-Cortez wrote earlier this year that the ultimate goal of reforming the criminal justice system ties "directly to the heart of our" Catholic faith.



Ocasio-Cortez, who has become a firebrand on the left after unseating powerful Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley this year, is an outspoken defender of the Palestinian people and has advocated for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

A spokesperson for Ocasio-Cortez, 29, did not immediately return a request for comment from NBC News asking how long she has known about her Jewish heritage and how she was made aware of it.

Maybe she will convert and dump Catholicism.

[Wingnut]

On Tuesday night, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro, appearing on Fox News @ Night with host Shannon Bream, was asked about the claim by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that she had Jewish ancestry. Shapiro pointed out that Ocasio-Cortez gave cover to anti-Semites who supported sanctions against Israel, like Linda Sarsour, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar, by associating with them, and noted that Ocasio-Cortez was simply following in the footsteps of other Democrats, notably Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, who had made similar claims in order to distract from the policies they espoused that were bad for the Jewish people. He stated, “It’s an easy way of avoiding the question but it has about as much political weight as somebody being accused of racism and then saying, ‘Well, I once had a black friend.’”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/39286/shapiro-fox-ocasio-cortez-claiming-jewish-ancestry-daily-wire

[austingirl]

Ben is correct.

[rangerrebew]

Holy Pocahontas! Ocasio-Cortez Now Claims She’s Jewish

December 10, 2018| by Donn Marten

It continues to amaze of how a brainless boob like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could be given so much fawning press despite her slew of gaffes, catty attacks on critics and outright fibs but the media never fails to disappoint.

On the same weekend that the 29-year-old socialist who before being anointed as the savior of the Democratic party violated House ethics rules by threatening Donald Trump Jr. with a congressional subpoena because he mocked her on social media, she spoke to an audience and made a claim that she is of Jewish descent.

https://downtrend.com/donn-marten/holy-pocahontas-ocasio-cortez-now-claims-shes-jewish/

[txradioguy]

So what Occasional-Cortex...you're still pro-BDS