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Left: US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, on March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite); Right: US congressional candidate Maureen Galindo appears in an interview, posted to YouTube on February 16, 2026. (Screenshot via SPEAK USA Videos and Podcasts)
May 21, 2026, 12:35 pm
AOC, leading Dems condemn Texas candidate who said she’d put ‘Zionists’ in ICE jail
Maureen Galindo, running in Democratic primary to represent San Antonio in DC, says most ‘American Zionists’ are probably pedophiles; PAC backing her is linked to Republican group
By Grace Gilson
Pennsylvania State Rep. Chris Rabb takes the stage to deliver remarks during a rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 15, 2026. (Matthew Hatcher / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
May 20, 2026, 8:15 am
Anti-Israel ‘squad’ member Chris Rabb wins Democratic Congress nod in Pennsylvania
Backed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and far-left streamer Hasan Piker, Rabb made opposition to Israel and AIPAC central to campaign; facing no Republican rival, his seat is assured
By Agencies
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, speaks at the NYCLU's May Day rally for worker's and immigrants rights at Foley Square, May 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
April 1, 2026, 8:41 pm
AOC signals opposition to all Israel aid, including defensive spending
Ocasio-Cortez says Iron Dome ‘critical’ to civilians, but Israel should pay for it; statement comes after she reportedly tells socialist party she is against all aid to Israel
By JTA and Luke Tress
Anti-Israel protesters in Times Square, New York City, June 16, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
July 24, 2025, 2:02 pm
Daily Briefing July 24: Day 657 – NYC fights antisemitism, anti-Zionism in public and private
New York reporter Luke Tress discusses mayor’s antisemitism task force, anti-Israel vandals in AOC’s office, and how the Soviet Union’s anti-Zionism influenced modern leftist rhetoric
By Jessica Steinberg and Luke Tress
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, speaks at the NYCLU's May Day rally for worker's and immigrants rights at Foley Square, May 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
July 22, 2025, 5:29 am
‘AOC funds genocide in Gaza’: Anti-Israel activists vandalize Ocasio-Cortez’s NY office
Democrat defends voting against amendment to cut funding for Israeli air defenses, vows to keep pushing ‘to cut flow of US munitions that are being used to perpetuate the genocide’
By Luke Tress and JTA
Mahmoud Khalil, center, reacts as he is greeted upon arriving at Newark International Airport, in Newark, New Jersey, June 21, 2025. (Seth Wenig/AP)
June 23, 2025, 10:01 am
Mahmoud Khalil resumes anti-Israel activism, appears at NYC rally
Former Columbia University student, facing deportation efforts, participates in protest slamming US strikes on Iran, days after being released from detention
By Agencies and ToI Staff
US Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent from Vermont, greets supporters after speaking at the "Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here" rally at Gloria Molina Grand Park in Los Angeles on April 12, 2025. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)
April 13, 2025, 11:06 am
‘Fighting Oligarchy Tour’: Bernie Sanders seeks to galvanize resistance to Trump
83-year-old socialist is drawing large crowds at rallies, and even put in a surprise appearance at Saturday’s Coachella music festival, trying to raise the US left from its apathy
By Romain FONSEGRIVES
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer gives a television interview, at the Capitol in Washington, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
March 23, 2025, 9:55 pm
Schumer says he won’t step down as Senate Democrat leader despite pressure from party
Longtime Senate stalwart argues his move to push GOP funding bill was ‘out of pure conviction as to what a leader should do and what the right thing for America and my party was’
By Will Weissert
US President Joe Biden, right, clasps the hand of his vice president Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, August 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
August 20, 2024, 12:36 pm
Biden gets hero’s welcome at DNC, touting record as he passes torch to Kamala Harris
President receives 4-minute standing ovation before he endorses VP, tells audience ‘I love you’; Hillary Clinton, AOC emphasize historic potential of Harris as 1st woman president
By AP
New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a campaign rally in the Bronx, June 22, 2024. (Luke Tress/JTA)
July 11, 2024, 11:35 pm
US socialist group pulls backing for AOC after she hosts panel on antisemitism
DSA slams lawmaker for ‘deep betrayal’ after it says she ‘conflated anti-Zionism with antisemitism’; Jewish panelist says the move ‘should tell you everything you need to know’
By Luke Tress
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (L), Democrat of New York; US Independent Senator Bernie Sanders (C) from Vermont and US Representative Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York, attend a 'Get Out The Vote' rally on the weekend before the Democratic Primary in New York, June 22, 2024. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)
June 23, 2024, 7:56 am
Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez slam AIPAC funding of rival at Bowman rally in NYC
New York’s 16th District Congressman says opponent George Latimer and US-Israel lobby group are ‘destroying our democracy’; war on Hamas a key talking point
By Luke Tress
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) departs after viewing graphic footage from the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre in Israel, shown by the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on November 14, 2023. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP)
June 11, 2024, 1:50 pm
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez slams antisemitism on left, but says term is ‘weaponized to divide us’
In talk about anti-Jewish bigotry in the pro-Palestinian movement, Democratic congresswoman says progressive movement is ‘undermined’ when the Jewish community is threatened
By Luke Tress
Screen capture from video of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar (right) visiting an anti-Israel protest camp at Columbia University, April 26, 2023. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 28, 2024, 11:27 am
ADL accuses Rep. Omar of ‘blood libel’ for saying some Jewish students pro-genocide
Congresswoman visits Columbia University protest camp, which has galvanized similar rallies across country; over 200 arrested as some schools call in cops to clear sit-ins
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Rep. Ritchie Torres, Democrat of New York, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 7, 2023. (AP/Mariam Zuhaib)
February 23, 2024, 4:52 am
Ritchie Torres left the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Or did it leave him?
Pro-Israel rep, under fire for stance that includes opposition to permanant ceasefire, removed from largest subgroup among Democrats in US House, with over 100 members
By Ron Kampeas
US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sits in the US House of Representatives at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 3, 2023. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
December 27, 2023, 2:09 am
US Rep. Ocasio-Cortez slammed over Christmas message comparing Jesus to Gazans
Fellow New York Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres writes that ‘associating Jews with the murder of Jesus is antisemitism,’ without mentioning colleague AOC by name
By Luke Tress
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