Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

2025-12-03T15:13:26Z

185.183.34.152: she's openly a Zionist claiming "Israel has the right to exist"

{{Infobox politician|name=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez|birth_date=October 13, 1989 (age 34)|birth_place=[[New York City]], [[U.S.]]|political_orientation=[[Social Democracy]]<br>[[Imperialism]]<br>[[Zionism]]|political_party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]|image=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Official Portrait.jpg}}

'''Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez''', frequently referred to by her acronym, '''AOC''', is a representative in the [[United States of America|US]] House of Representatives as a member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]].

She is closely aligned with the congressional clique called [[The Squad (United States Congress)|The Squad]], which claims itself to be a [[Progressivism|progressive]] voting bloc, but has since disappointed voters repeatedly by showing their [[opportunism]] and ineffectiveness. Her record in congress has been a disappointment.<ref>{{News citation|author=Abigail Tracy|newspaper=Vanity Fair|title=“THIS BEACON OF HOPE IS BEING CORRUPTED BY THE SYSTEM”: THE BATTLE FOR ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ’S PROGRESSIVE SOUL|date=2019-06-10|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-progressives-congress}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|newspaper=[[Hard Lens Media]]|title=Independent Media Calling Out The Hypocrisy Of AOC|date=2022-06-27|url=https://youtu.be/Az5irQSUItQ}}</ref>

==Criticisms==
*AOC lined up with [[Nancy Pelosi|Pelosi]], [[John Bolton|Bolton]] and [[Donald Trump|Trump]] in support of coup attempt in [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]].<ref>[https://orinocotribune.com/aoc-lines-up-with-pelosi-bolton-and-trump-in-support-of-coup-attempt-in-venezuela/ AOC Lines Up with Pelosi, Bolton and Trump in Support of Coup Attempt in Venezuela]</ref>
*AOC praised Nancy Pelosi, who has been an enemy of the proletariat her whole career.<ref>[https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-ocasio-cortez-on-the-view-20200219-gcliuehkgbb77dovdjxt3j2p3i-story.html AOC visits ‘The View’ to praise Nancy Pelosi as the ‘mama bear of the Democratic Party’ and chide ‘Bernie bros’]</ref>
*AOC changed her vote from "nay" to "present" on the Israel funding vote and was unable to defend her vote.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Rayhan Uddin|newspaper=Middle East Eye|title=AOC faces backlash for crying, but not voting, over bill to fund Israel's Iron Dome|date=24-9-2021|archive-url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-iron-dome-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-present-condemned|retrieved=30-11-2023}}</ref>
*In 2021, AOC transferred $160k of her own campaign funds to right-wing "CIA Democrats".<ref>[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04/05/demo-a05.html Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez funds the CIA Democrats] by [[Eric London]] on [https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04/05/demo-a05.html World Socialist Web Site], the publication of the [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] [[Fourth International]]</ref>
*Did not support [[force the vote]] to demand [[Medicare for All]].<ref>{{News citation|title=Force the Vote: The churn within the Democratic Party, the ‘Fraud Squad’ and the plank for ‘Medicare for All’ that appears abandoned|url=https://www.opindia.com/2021/01/force-the-vote-aoc-democratic-party-jimmy-dore-medicare-for-all/}}</ref>
*Voted to expand [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|NATO]].
*Voted in favor of equating [[anti-Zionism]] with [[antisemitism]] and affirmed the [[State of Israel|State of Israel’s]] right to existence.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Peoples Dispatch|title=Nearly the entire US House of Representatives just equated anti-Zionist to anti-semitism|date=29-11-2023|url=https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/11/29/nearly-the-entire-us-house-of-representatives-just-equated-anti-zionist-to-anti-semitism/}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Statesian politicians]]

Genocide

2025-12-03T06:49:47Z

185.183.34.152: added the macedonian cultural genocide enacted by Greek royal government backed by the US and UK. Its important to note that forced assimilation of the Slavic Macedonian minority also took place under the metaxas regime and some elements of cultural

'''Genocide''' is a term which, broadly, refers to actions committed with the intent to destroy a group of people, in whole or in part. [[Republic of Poland (1918–1939)|Polish]] lawyer [[Raphael Lemkin]] coined the term in his book ''Axis Rule in Occupied Europe'' (1944).<ref name=":1">{{Citation|title=Axis Rule in Occupied Europe|author=[[Raphäel Lemkin]]|year=1944|publisher=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|city=Washington|pdf=https://www.lawandisrael.org/wp-content/uploads/Topics/Holocaust/Genocide/Lemkin-Axis-Rule-Genocide.pdf}}</ref> The [[United Nations]] defines genocide as:<blockquote>... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

* Killing members of the group
* Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
* Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
* Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
* Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights|title=Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide|date=9 December 1948|url=https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-prevention-and-punishment-crime-genocide|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220413091325/https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-prevention-and-punishment-crime-genocide|archive-date=2022-04-13|retrieved=2022-10-28}}</ref>
</blockquote>

==Etymology==

It consists of the Greek prefix ''genos'', meaning race or tribe, and the Latin suffix ''cide'', meaning to kill.

Raphael Lemkin first coined the term in ''Axis Rule in Occupied Europe''.<ref name=:1 />

== Controversies ==
Despite its purported support for international law, the [[United States]] was the only member-state of the United Nations that refused to ratify the Genocide Convention, claiming that the convention was an "abridgment" of its sovereignty. When it finally did so in 1988, the US Government included "reservations" that made it exempt from actual compliance, thereby undermining the original intent of the convention.<ref>{{Citation|author=Ward Churchill|year=1997|title=A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present|page=10|quote=In effect, the United States—in perfectly Hitlerian fashion—remains to this day outside the law... still refusing to accept the idea that refraining from genocidal activity is not an "abridgment of [its] sovereignty".|publisher=City Lights Books}}</ref>

In 2023, the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' released an opinion article called "Is It Time to Retire the Term 'Genocide'? The Meaning of Genocide," which does not mention the UN definition. The article seeks to question the meaning of genocide to prevent it from being used against the USA and other [[Imperial core|Western countries]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=Margaret Kimberley|newspaper=[[Black Agenda Report]]|title=When Genocide Is No Longer Genocide|date=2023-12-13|url=https://www.blackagendareport.com/when-genocide-no-longer-genocide|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231222031036/https://www.blackagendareport.com/when-genocide-no-longer-genocide|archive-date=2023-12-22}}</ref>

== Examples ==
Below is an incomplete list of genocides. Ongoing events are '''emboldened'''.
* [[Siege of Carthage (Third Punic War)|Siege of Carthage]] (c. 149–146 BC)
* [[Gallic Wars]] (58–50 BC)
* [[Muslim conquest of Persia]] (633–651)
* [[Harrying of the North]] (1069–1070)
* [[Mongol conquests]] (1206–1368)
* [[Albigensian Crusade]] (1209–1229)
* '''[[Genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas]] (1492–present)'''
** [[Taíno genocide]] (1493–1550)
** [[Native American genocide|'''Native American genocide''']] '''(1609–present)'''
** [[Guatemalan genocide]] (1960–1996)
* [[Dzungar genocide]] (1755–1758)
* '''[[Australia#Aboriginal genocide|Genocide of Indigenous Australians]] (1788–present)'''
* [[Moriori genocide]] (1835–1863)
* [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Irish Potato Famine]] (1845–1852)
* [[Circassian genocide]] (1864–1867)
* [[Congolese genocide]] (1885–1908)
* [[Herero and Namaqua genocide]] (1904–1908)
* [[Late Ottoman genocides]] (1909–1923)
** [[Armenian genocide]] (1914–1923)
** [[Greek genocide]] (1914–1923)
** ''[[Sayfo]]'' (1915–1917)
* '''[[Palestinian genocide]] (1917–present)'''
** [[1948 Palestinian flight and expulsion]] (1947–1949)
** '''[[Gaza genocide]] (2023–present)'''
* [[Libyan genocide]] (1929–1934)
* [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War]] (1935–1937)
* [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] (1937–1945)
** [[Nanjing Massacre|Nanjing massacre]] (1937)
* [[Nazi war crimes]] (1939–1945)
** [[Polish Holocaust]] (1939–1945)
** [[Holocaust|Jewish Holocaust]] (1941–1945)
** [[Romani Holocaust]] (1941–1945)
** [[Serbian genocide]] (1941–1945)
* [[Bengal famine of 1943]] (1943–1944)
* [[Macedonian genocide]] (1946-1949)
*[[Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66|Indonesian genocide]] (1965–1966)
*[[Bangladesh genocide]] (1971)
*''[[Ikiza]]'' (1972)
*[[Cambodian genocide]] (1975–1979)
*[[East Timor genocide]] (1975–1999)
*[[Bosnian genocide]] (1992–1995)
*[[Rwandan genocide]] (1994)
*[[Darfur genocide]] (2003–2005)
*[[Yazidi genocide]] (2014–2017)
*'''[[Republic of the Union of Myanmar#Rohingya genocide|Rohingya genocide]] (2016–2017, 2017–present)'''
*'''[[Masalit genocide]] (2023–present)'''
*'''[[Alawite genocide]] (2025–present)'''

== See also ==

*[[We Charge Genocide]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Genocide]]

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