AOC genocide allegation against Israel at Munich Security Conference sparks outrage
AOC reacts harshly to Israel’s ‘genocide’ comments
In her speech at the town hall at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez claimed that US aid “led to genocide in Gaza.” (Source: Munich Security Conference)
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DY) claimed at the Munich Security Conference on Friday that U.S. aid to the Jewish state has led to genocide against Israel. AOC’s attack on the Jewish state in Munich took place in the birthplace of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi movement, which committed the worst genocide in human history.
AOC’s attack on Israel’s war campaign to defeat the US- and EU-designated terrorist movement in the Gaza Strip sparked outrage and intense criticism from academic military and Middle East experts.
During the town hall event in Munich, the Team member said: “For me, this is not just about a presidential election. I personally think that the United States has an obligation to uphold its own laws, especially the Leahy laws. And I personally think that the idea of completely unconditional aid, no matter what, doesn’t make sense. I think that makes a genocide possible in Gaza. And I think that thousands of women and children died who didn’t do that, which was completely preventable.”
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, speaks at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) on February 13, 2026 in Munich, Germany. (Liesa Johannssen/Reuters)
He continued, “And I believe it is appropriate to enforce our own laws through the Leahy laws, which require conditioning assistance in all cases when you see gross human rights violations.”
The Leahy Acts prohibit the Department of Defense and the Department of State from funding “foreign security force units when there is credible information that the unit has committed ‘gross human rights violations.'” Former Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT., introduced the bill in 1997.
“AOC flew all the way to Munich, which is as infamous as the city where Hitler staged the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch, which marked the beginning of the road to the Holocaust, to further smear the Jewish people with a false claim of genocide,” international relations expert Tom Gross told Fox News digital.
Gross added: “Such preposterous ‘genocide’ claims are the basis of modern anti-Semitic incitement against Jews in the United States and around the world. This shocking ignorance and insensitivity from Ocasio-Cortez should keep her from any potential presidential bid or other high office.”
Memorials at the site of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on the Supernova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im, Israel, on Monday, May 27, 2024. (Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Military experts and genocide researchers have debunked Israel’s claim that it committed genocide against Palestinians during its war of self-defense against the Hamas terrorist organization, which began after Hamas terrorists attacked communities in parts of southern Israel on October 7, 2023. More than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed in this war, and 251 people were brutally kidnapped by Hamas and other terrorists and taken to Gaza.
Hamas terrorists wave to Gazans during the release of three Israeli hostages on Sunday. (TPS-IL)
Danny Orbach, a military historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and co-author of “Debunking Genocide Claims: A Reexamination of the Israel-Hamas War from October 7, 2023 to June 1, 2025,” said in a statement to Fox News Digital that Ocasio-Cortez’s accusation that Israel is committing genocide “is an accusation that is both factually and legally incorrect.” A specific intention to destroy, in whole or in part, a protected group, and an active effort to maximize civilian destruction as the essential condition.
“The evidence shows just the opposite: As shown in our multi-author study Debunking Genocide Claims, Israel has taken unprecedented measures to reduce harm to civilians, including creating humanitarian safe zones, which are independently confirmed by data to be approximately six times safer than other parts of Gaza.”
An Israeli soldier patrols near Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel on October 12, 2023. The location is near where 270 revelers were killed by terrorists at the Supernova music festival on October 7. (Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images)
Orbach added: “Israel also issued detailed advance warnings before attacks and facilitated the entry of more than two million tons of humanitarian aid, often at significant cost to its own military advantage, including the loss of surprise and sustaining an enemy during combat.”
He concluded: “These measures were taken despite Hamas’s October 7 massacre, its systematic use of human shields and hospitals for military purposes, and a network of tunnels stretching over 1,000 kilometers; an operational challenge with no historical precedent. Finally, there is no credible evidence demonstrating the kind of definitive, specific genocidal intent against the Palestinians that is required by international law and cannot otherwise be reasonably interpreted.”
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Conservative commentator Derek Hunter posted on @AOC “He’s as smart as a clogged toilet.”
In December 2024, Germany joined the United States in rejecting Israel’s allegations of genocide in Gaza.
