cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33487836
By MEE staff
Published date: 21 July 2025 21:11 BSTThe New York lawmaker voted against an amendment by Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene last week that sought to block $500m in Congress’ annual defence spending bill for Israel’s Iron Dome programme.
Fellow Democrats Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar [as well as Democrats Al Green of Texas, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania and Republican Thomas Massie of Kentucky - PL] had supported Taylor Greene’s amendment, which eventually lost in a 422-6 vote.
In a post on X on Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that Greene’s amendment did “nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza”.
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What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities
Totally wouldn’t want warmongering genociders to be undefended, and maybe, slightly accountable for their war crimes.
Yeah, I agree. Not having any defensive capabilities against nations that they attacked first is a good deterrent against them attacking everyone around them.
Also, why was my comment removed? I thought it was a good discussion point.
It was removed because it was genocidal apologia
I simply highlighted what AOC said, as OP highlighted himself in their post. Might as well delete the post in that case. Sheesh.
And go take a look at my post/comment history. You’ll soon find out that I staunchly support Gaza and Palestine and am very critical of Israel.
You did also describe the headline as “incindary” and contrasted it was what you said was “the important part”: AOCs apologist statement. This might have been unintended, but it did make it easy to get the impression that you were agreeing with her apologia.
And I’m glad to hear you support Gaza, but unfortunately I have all to frequently encountered people who will claim to oppose the Gaza genocide, and then turn around and defend the people actively supporting and facilitating it, so it can be hard to tell.
That counts as genocide apologism???
It’s a bit much. This kind of moderation doesn’t even give any chance for discussions. The comment didn’t get down voted in the negative and other users have made other comments to talk about it and made really good points.
I understand you don’t want any genocide apologists in your community, which is good, but c’mon. Let people have some doubts.
We get far too many genocide-defending pissrael posters from other instances to be lenient towards them. Pretty much every site besides a few leftist ones like ours lets them set up shop and run wild.
We refuse to give genocide and genocide apologia a platform here.
What obvious disingenuous excuse making. And you can tell it’s bullshit because this kind of reasoning has never been used in any other place and will never be used again: you do not see AOC advocating to send “defensive” weapons to Iran or Russia, for example, or Gaza for that matter. So if we take her seriously we can only conclude that she actively supports adding to the death count or innocent civilians everywhere except Israel.
So either way, her actions are evil
Other important bits are that Israel already gets $3.3 billion a year for security. This would have blocked $500 million for the “iron dome”…which could easily be funded with what they are already blowing on offensive measures. Fuck MTG, but AOC is wrong on this.
