Of course she did. Because you can ignore reality but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
(Original Caption) This scene at the Nazi concentration camp at Belsen, shows part of the endless pile of corpses of some 60,000 civilian prisoners awaiting burial. Following the arrival of British 2nd Army troops, who forced the German SS guards to dig graves and bury their unfortunate victims. Despite the frantic efforts of British medical units, hundreds of diseased and tortured civilians, jammed into the over crowed camp by the Nazis, died hourly.‘Lest we forget’, page 12, a Wehrmacht doctor with bodies of victims of the Holocaust. Pamphlet created by Ando Gilardi, attached to the Italian periodic ‘Lavoro’ (‘Work’). It was the first time in Italy that images of the Holocaust were published, the event was the cause of a parliamentary debate. The dossier was later withdrawn motivated by censorship for graphic content and nudity, because of the victims’ bodies depicted naked. Italy, annex to the magazine “Lavoro” No. 4, January 23, 1955. (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) refused Sunday to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp, after a Jewish group had invited her to tour that camp and others this summer to educate herself about the facts of the Holocaust.
Last Monday evening, Ocasio-Cortez compared detention facilities for illegal aliens caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to “concentration camps,” adding the phrase “never again,” which commonly refers to the Nazi Holocaust.
The remark drew outrage and criticism, even from fellow Democrats. Nevertheless, Ocasio-Cortez doubled down, first claiming that she had not been referring to Nazi Germany, then drawing parallels to the U.S. internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War. “I will never apologize for calling these camps what they are,” she tweeted.
Alan Dershowitz, who recently said he would support Joe Biden over President Donald Trump in 2020, said Ocasio-Cortez’s “concentration camp” claim made her a “Holocaust denier.” Bill Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, and a determined foe of President Trump, criticized her on his show Friday evening: “If you want to run a campaign based on reparations and concentration camps then it’s going to be very hard to win the election.” Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (who is also a Breitbart News contributor) published a full-page ad in the New York Times:
Our full page ad in today’s @nytimes countering @AOC trivialization of the #holocaust. We must fix the humanitarian crisis on the border. But comparing it to the genocide of six million Jews desecrates the memory of the victims and the #NeverAgain commitment against genocide. pic.twitter.com/CKC7fsCRUq
Numerous Holocaust educational foundations, including Israel’s Yad Vashem, offered to educate Ocasio-Cortez. Senior Yad Vashem historian Robert Rozett wrote in response to Ocasio-Cortez’s use of the term “concentration camp”:
The term “concentration camps” has become a commonly used term for an array of Nazi camps all characterized by profound inhumanity and suffering. Even Auschwitz-Birkenau – the most infamous of the Nazi camps where more than one million people were murdered– was officially termed a Konzentrationslager (Concentration camp) in German.
One group, From the Depths, issued an open invitation Friday for Ocasio-Cortez to join it on a tour of Holocaust sites:
We at From The Depths, would like to invite you as our guest during your summer recess from The United Congress, to join us along with Holocaust Survivor, United States Citizen and President of From The Depths, Mr. Edward Mosberg on an educational tour, specifically built for legislators, of the German Nazi Concentration Camps. The educational tour will visit Mauthausen, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek Concentration Camps, amongst many other educational sites.
But Ocasio-Cortez refused the invitation, citing the fact that Rep. Steve King (R-IA) had been on a similar tour:
The last time you went on this trip it was reported that you also met w/ fringe Austrian neo-Nazi groups to talk shop.
So I’m going to have to decline your invite. But thank you for revealing to all how transparently the far-right manipulates these moments for political gain. https://t.co/TQkaPEESoD
King was rebuked by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year for appearing to support white supremacy. The Washington Postreported last year that he had met with a far-right Austrian group after completing his tour of Holocaust sites with From the Depths, which denied any knowledge of his subsequent travel plans in Europe.
In May, President Donald Trump sent the first-ever official U.S. government delegation to the March of the Living, an annual march between Auschwitz and the Birkenau death camp nearby that commemorates victims of the Holocaust.
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DemocracyRules
4 years ago
Hitler = Stalin
– both were tyrants who made their countries worse off
– ALL tyrants do that, to facilitate subjugation
– Democrats also make our lives worse
– example: Detroit
Tyrant Culture
– always full of lies and deception
– always full of hate and engineered chaos
– AOC is a perfect actor for this role
Mark Goldberg
4 years ago
Who the hell wants her slouching around getting a tour of the horrific confines of death chambers and forced labor unto death. She would only claim then to want to avoid the same for poor immigrants
‘of color’ who she doesn’t want the same to happen too. What crap. She should be exposed as should the rest of the sjw idiot marxist jihadists who hate America
Michael Ben Yitzchak
4 years ago
In addition to AOC misrepresented the holocaust, the attempted demonization of our hard working border patrol and ICE, and dehumanization of our current government are the same propaganda tactics the nazis used to start the holocaust.
MAS
4 years ago
Don’t confuse her with facts when she has her mind made up…
Archie Bulloch
4 years ago
Rather than learn and educate oneself, she chooses to remain ignorant, and stupid. I can understand that.
Dennis
4 years ago
My reaction to this woman is that she is naïve to a fault. I hope that those who elected her will come to that same conclusion at her next election and send her home where she will be safe from her own stupidity!
Bill
4 years ago
Her un-apologetic remarks are hate speech.
Poppey
4 years ago
What counts to that disgusting air head is the purity of her virtue signalling ridiculous statements, likewise her minders who shield her from questioning by Conservative minded reporters.
As a willing tool of Trotskyites she needs hounding.
Daniel FX Dravot
4 years ago
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez statement typifies the toxic blend of laziness, group-think and Soros manufactured “outrage” propaganda that are all too common in leftist American politics today. Its purpose is to flood this country with illegals to overload our law enforcement, medical, educational and legal systems. This issue would not exist but for the mendacity of Democrat party policy since the Carter administration.
I have toured Dachau. American holding areas for the children of criminal invaders are nothing whatsoever like concentration camps. It is the criminal invaders who should be charged with child abuse for putting their children in harm’s way. Had they not broken our laws they would not be separated from their children.
Law-breaking American citizens are separated from their children when those children are taken into protective custody. Why should illegal aliens be treated any differently?
Illegal Aliens by definition are breaking our laws. Enforce the laws or, if you have the votes, change them. Currently the laws require that illegal aliens must be apprehended, detained and repatriated. That is the job, the duty, of law enforcement agencies, again, by definition. Would-be migrants, after reimbursing American tax-payers for the cost of their deportation, should be allowed to apply to immigrate legally.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” is from a 3d rate poem written in a happier time. It is not a
coherent immigration policy and certainly is not immigration law. A country has the sovereign right and duty to
determine qualifications of potential immigrants. Will a given person or family allowed into the USA benefit our country or are they parasites seeking only benefits? Are they part of a subterfuge invasion, politically or religiously motivated to subvert and supersede our Republic?
If would-be migrants don’t want to be separated from their children, they should stay on the other side of the border.
Worsethanitlooks
4 years ago
Too much useless moral outrage is being directed at her right now. Instead, the Republican Party must pound the message that AOC, Bernie, and Warren are the insane, irrational heart and sole of the New Socialist Democratic Party.
Fire at Will
4 years ago
Boston University is grossly exposed as a fraud for producing a graduate like AOC.
Alleged-Comment
4 years ago
AOC won’t go. No MORON desires to be enlightened. Ignorance is bliss and one does not have to have responsibility.
ed
4 years ago
She reminds me of the bird in my grandparents’ cukoo clock when I was a kid…..
mezcukor
4 years ago
that woman is despicable
marble granite
4 years ago
Is she really unable to know the difference between Nazi labor/death camps and Soros-Obama temporary emergency child care settings that have been deliberately overwhelmed?
R. Arandas
4 years ago
Of course not, to many on the left, the Holocaust is only a convenient weapon or tool used to smear the right, but not particularly helpful otherwise. Besides, “Islamophobia” is the main thing we should all be obsessing over now, right?
R. Arandas
4 years ago
Of course not, to many on the left, the Holocaust is only a convenient weapon or tool used to smear the right, but not particularly helpful otherwise. Besides, “Islamophobia” is the main thing we should all be obsessing over now, right?
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