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Jilly_in_VA

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Tue Jul 22, 2025, 01:46 PM Jul 22

AOC's office vandalized after recent House vote involving US aid to Israel

A Bronx office of the US House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was vandalized early on Monday, according to New York City police, who say they are investigating.

The vandalism occurred as the progressive Democratic congresswoman grapples with “threats on [her] life”, as her campaign manager put it, after a recent US House of Representatives vote involving American aid to Israel.

Officers called out to Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign office in Westchester Square at about 12.45am found its front covered in red paint, police said. Images circulating online and on local news media outlets showed someone had left a sign which alleged that Ocasio-Cortez “funds genocide in Gaza”, though she has repeatedly criticized the Israeli military’s strikes there.

The vandalism occurred after Ocasio-Cortez on Friday voted against a defense spending bill amendment authored by the Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia that would have eliminated funding for the system protecting Israel from missiles. Ocasio-Cortez voted “no” on the defense spending bill itself, which passed the House and included more than $600m in aid for Israel, as she alluded to on an X post hours after the office’s vandalism.

Her vote on Greene’s amendment prompted the Democratic Socialists of America to issue a statement accusing Ocasio-Cortez of backing Israel’s “eliminationist campaign against the Palestinian people”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/22/aoc-office-vandalized-nyc

Oh FFS.

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AOC's office vandalized after recent House vote involving US aid to Israel (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jul 22 OP
Sounds like someone wants to Globalize the Antifada Jose Garcia Jul 22 #1
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