AOC’s rant at Sunday night’s Mamdani rally was only a tad more unhinged than her usual , but she amplified a nasty leftist lie when she said that military aid to Israel is why there’s poverty in America.
“We demand,” declared Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Queens-Bx.), “that we pay to care for our people instead of the flattening of Palestinians.”
Zohran Mamdani says he finds it “hard” to explain to tenants of Queensbridge Houses why “they have to live in substandard conditions” while we spend “billions of dollars to drop bombs that kill tens of thousands of Palestinians.”
The canard that Israel is skimming the cream from America to oppress Palestinians has become a popular trope among anti-Zionists and antisemites left and right; the gross insinuation is that, absent aid to Israel,

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