Ocasio Cortez Jewish Roots
Posted : admin On 3/25/2022Incoming Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced at a Hanukkah get-together in Queens that part of her family is descended from Sephardic Jews who fled to Puerto Rico during the Spanish Inquisition, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has revealed that generations ago, her ancestors were Jews who fled Europe to escape religious persecution. The progressive Democrat, who has long identified as a Catholic New Yorker with Puerto Rican heritage, said that she discovered her Jewish roots because her family has been “doing a lot of family trees in.
The purge is on. American Jews who turn a blind eye turn a blind eye to tragic history.
The Democrat Party is getting rid of the Jews
Kamala Harris, who defended Rep. Illhan Omar’s Jew-hate, could sit in the Oval Office.
Despite her anti-Semitic rhetoric, a habit that Omar continued during the primary, she got the endorsement of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The top elected Democrat official also endorsed Tlaib.
After Omar’s first round of anti-Semitic remarks, California Sen. Kamala Harris defended the racist politician against her Jewish critics by warning “that the spotlight being put on Congresswoman Omar may put her at risk.”
Omar’s anti-Semitism wasn’t threatening Jews, but Jewish protests were threatening the bigot.
Then Harris insisted that “there is a difference between criticism of policy … and anti-Semitism.” The California politician didn’t bother to explain how Omar’s anti-Semitic tropes were mere policy.
Harris has since been picked as Biden’s vice-presidential running mate. If Biden wins, a politician who defended Omar’s anti-Semitism will almost certainly become the next president of this country.
While Harris has been depicted as a moderate, her chief of staff, Karine Jean-Pierre, was the national spokeswoman and senior adviser for MoveOn. The radical group has a long history of trafficking in anti-Semitism and attacking the Jewish state. It even opposed New York Sen. Chuck Schumer because, in its own words, “our country doesn’t need another Joe Lieberman.”
Jean-Pierre had accused Israel of “war crimes” and denounced AIPAC as “Islamophobic” for opposing the murder of Jews, urging Democrats to avoid the pro-Israel convention.
The myth that the radicals of the squad were insurgent “giant-slayers” who were taking on the Democrat establishment was branding. The reality is that the radicals are backed by a radical establishment which is cheerfully shedding older Dems with more traditional constituencies.
That includes Jews.
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the squad leader who supported Omar’s pro-BDS resolution, has a speaking slot at the Democrat convention. A letter on her site, signed by the congresswoman, accuses Israel of becoming an apartheid state and threatens to cut off aid.
Cortez’s email in support of the move touted the backing of BDS groups and extremist organizations linked to terrorist groups like the PFLP and Hamas. These groups include American Muslims for Palestine, whose chairman, Hatem Bazian, was the architect of the harassment of Jews on college campuses as the founder of Students for Justice in Palestine.
When Israel resisted a Hamas invasion from Gaza, Ocasio-Cortez accused Israel of a “massacre.”
Jewish Democrats can’t keep on pretending that these views are marginal when they occupy a speaking role at their convention between John Kerry and Bill Clinton.
All this matters a whole lot more than the policy theater over the Democrat platform.
What’s at stake for Jewish Democrats is not just policy: It’s representation.
The number of Protestants and Jews has been dropping in Congress, an inevitable consequence of secularization and diversity. The DNC’s parade of speeches will open with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an atheist with a Brooklyn accent who isn’t part of a Jewish community. And he’s the prototype for the new type of “Jewish” Democrat.
Jewish House Democrats who represented Jewish constituencies are losing their seats.
The 117th Congress will have only two Jewish House Democrats from New York after Rep. Elliot Engel was defeated and Rep. Nita Lowey was replaced by minority radicals backed by Sanders and Cortez. New Jersey’s lone Jewish congressman survived an assault by a Ocasio-Cortez/Sanders-backed radical.
How is it possible that the largest Jewish population in the country has so few Jewish House members? Democrats have strategically gerrymandered New York City to deny representation to Jewish areas by rolling them into minority areas where only the radicals can win.
Ocasio Cortez Jewish Roots Cover Up
Jewish Democrats used to hold public office because they were elected by Jewish voters. That’s no longer true in New York. It’s still true in Florida and a few other states. But not for long.
The new “Jewish” Democrat is a radical activist who has no ties to the Jewish community. He or she may not even be Jewish. Ocasio-Cortez has claimed that she has Jewish roots because “to be Puerto Rican is to be the descendant of African Moors and slaves, Taino Indians, Spanish colonizers, Jewish refugees, and likely others.” Then who needs actual Jews anyway?
The radical hijackers of the Democrats have been playing this game for a while.
“I think I am the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat in this office,” Obama had insisted.
As Harris hits the campaign trail, look for her to tout her Jewish husband, and to endlessly retell the same story about her mother-in-law. Politics is built on lame ethnic pandering, but these tired routines are obscuring something much more deeply disturbing.
Obama and Harris both signed off on Iran’s nuclear program and the flow of money to terrorists. And they’ve covered that disturbing fact over with happy talk about all their Jewish friends.
Obama’s policies led to the murder of Jews. He loved Jews so much he couldn’t stop killing them.
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker thrilled Jewish Democrats with his ability to recite a few Hebrew phrases and then worked hard to protect black nationalist terrorists who murdered Jews in his state.
Ocasio-Cortez claims to be Jewish because she’s Puerto Rican, while coordinating with the allies of the terrorists who are killing Jews.
Meanwhile, Jewish voters are increasingly not being represented at a communal level.
Some of the largest traditional Jewish communities in the country are being represented by radicals like Rep. Yvette Clarke, Rep. Karen Bass or Rep. Nydia Velasquez, who are overtly hostile to Israel, and uninterested in actually representing Jews in their gerrymandered districts.
The relationship between Jewish communities and elected officials is being broken. And that has implications well beyond Israel, BDS or Iran. It means that Jews are no longer a Democrat constituency. That’s a reality that is quietly sinking in for many Jewish Democrat professionals, especially after the purge of Engel by a radical backed not only by Ocasio-Cortez, but Obama.
According to Jamaal Bowman, Obama decided to endorse him after reading his response to a liberal Jewish clergyman rejecting his call to fight BDS and bashing Israel’s military.
Most Jewish Democrat voters are steadily refusing to pay attention to this phenomenon.
And yet there’s only so many rants about Trump, so many furious New York Times and Washington Post op-eds to be scrolled through at the breakfast table that can keep the ugly reality of what a radicalized Democrat Party means for Jewish communities at bay.
It’s not just that the Democrats are turning against Israel, they’re turning against Jews.
Not Jews in the abstract sense. Democrat politicians can, like Booker, keep a Hebrew copy of the Bible in their office, they can, like Ocasio-Cortez, claim Jewish roots, or, like Obama, claim to be Jewish in some vague sense of values.
None of this has anything to do with actual Jews, their interests, communities and lives, but it does a wonderful job of flattering the insecure neurosis that makes some Jews lean leftward.
Obama had won by reducing America to a set of leftist values. He did the same thing to Jews. But when you reduce people to your own abstractions and slogans, you’re appropriating them. Marxists worshiped the working class as an abstraction and terrorized the actual working class. Because they claimed to stand for “the people,” they never had to pay attention to real people.
The appropriation of the Jews transforms a people into a set of leftist slogans. And then Democrats from Obama to Ocasio-Cortez are free to support policies that lead to the murder of actual Jews in the name of their leftist abstractions of Jewish values.
The American political system doesn’t recognize constituencies as abstractions, but as people. The Democrats are building a new one-party state in which elections are irrelevant and primaries exist to broker arrangements between intersectional non-profits funded by billionaires. Actual Jewish communities are an annoying inconvenience in this Marxist political system.
Democrats with Jewish last names will still exist, they just won’t represent anyone except the roster of non-profits like Bend the Arc, J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice or IfNotNow, that are not only actively working to get Jews killed, but don’t represent anyone except George Soros or Buffett’s son. And attacking Soros for his radical extremism is the only thing that Democrats will even recognize as anti-Semitism anymore.
The pattern ought to be a familiar one from how leftist regimes dealt with Jewish populations.
There’s not much of a future for Jewish communities in this model. The cities and suburbs where Jews live are under siege in the name of social justice. Jewish communities are simultaneously losing their representation within the Democrats in the name of social justice.
Jewish Democrats who imagine that Israel is the problem are about to learn they’re the problem.
The problem, as in the USSR, is that many Jewish communities are bourgeois enclaves filled with middle-class professionals, two-parent families who raise their children to succeed, go to a good college, get an even better job, get married and raise their own children in a suburb with safe streets, challenging schools and the rest of what used to be the American Dream.
Like most suburbanites, they aren’t actually radical. They just stupidly enable the radicals. And the radicals, once they take power, are not going to tolerate them. They’re going to get rid of them. It’s already happening. And, unlike the 1970s, there won’t be any suburbs to run away to.
A decade ago there were six Jewish House Democrats out of New York. Now there are two.
What happened in the short span of a decade is that the radical future of the Democrats arrived. And there’s no room in that radical new world that the Democrats are building for the Jews.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.
This article was first published by FrontPage Magazine.
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Crypto-Jews. Secret Jews. Conversos.Marranos.B’nai Anusim.
These are the terms used for Jews, mainly of Spanish descent, who were forced to convert to Catholicism or die during the period of Spain’s Inquisition. While many Sephardic Jews did convert, some continued to practice their Judaism in secret.
Now, this 500-year history of hidden Jewish lineage has been invoked by an unlikely source: the firebrand U.S. Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. At a menorah lighting on Sunday, she told a room of supporters that her family has Sephardic heritage.
Ocasio-Cortez’s revelation triggered a passionate debate among Jews, genealogists and historians about the veracity of claims of Sephardic ancestry, and their deeper meaning. Some saw her announcement as a cynical political ploy along the lines of Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Native American ancestry. Others say that Judaism should be a big enough tent to welcome Jew-ish people like Ocasio-Cortez. But some experts say that even if Ocasio-Cortez says she has Jewish ancestry, there is likely no evidence — either documentation or family traditions — to support it.
“All of this talk about lighting candles and sweeping the floors, it means nothing,” said Judith Neulander, a lecturer on Jewish studies and folklore at Case Western Reserve University. “If you go back in history and look at these things, it’s sad, but nothing holds up.”
At Hanukkah event with @JFREJNYC in an moving speech, @Ocasio2018 shares that her family were Sephardic Jews who fled to Puerto Rico. “So many of our destinies are tied beyond our understanding” pic.twitter.com/68bjuCFnDD— Taly Krupkin (@TalyKrupkin) December 10, 2018
Exploring — and publicly discussing — one’s ancestry is trendy these days. The DNA testing company 23andMe has more than 5 million customers; Ancestry.com, which matches DNA tests with genealogical trees, has more than 3 million customers. Dozens of athletes, politicians and cultural figures have gone on the PBS show Finding Your Roots to do exactly that. Warren attracted significant media attention by saying she has Native American ancestry, and doing a DNA test to try to prove it. Over the summer, a Latina New York state politician, Julia Salazar, became embroiled in controversy when her own claims of Sephardic ancestry were challenged.
Some ancestries are more coveted than others. Neulander calls Sephardic ancestry a “prestige lineage,” one that many people claim because it carries exotic, intellectual or otherwise special connotations. The fact that we think of it that way may have to do with Jewish elitism itself.
Sephardic Judaism, which flourished between the 9th and 12th centuries in Islamic-occupied Spain, is widely considered by most Jews to have been full of scholars, intellectuals and grammarians. But it was a medieval community with high rates of poverty and illiteracy like any other, says John Efron, a professor of Jewish history at the University of California-Berkeley. In the 19th century, he explained, German Jews created the myth that Sephardic Jews were uniquely smart and secular, as a way to differentiate their own intellectual culture from Polish Jews. Efron says this German-made myth is part of the reason Sephardic ancestry is seen as so desirable.
“No non-Jewish member of Congress is going to say, ‘I’m descended from early-Modern Polish Jewry,” Efron said. “Everyone wants to claim this ancestry. [Ocasio-Cortez’s] claim is a very old story.”