The Bronx Valley Girl is now a yenta!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Claims Jewish Ancestry at Hanukkah Party
http://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/10/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-claims-jewish-ancestry-at-hanukkah-party/
Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed Sunday night at a Hanukkah party in New York that she has Jewish ancestry.
"A very, very long time ago, generations and generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews ... During the Spanish Inquisition, so many people were forced to convert on the exterior to Catholicism, but on the interior continued to practice their faith ... some of those people landed in Puerto Rico," she told a left-wing group, Jews For Racial And Economic Justice. ...
The Jewish Virtual Library notes (original links):
Though officially forbidden from settling in Puerto Rico through much of its history, Jews managed to settle on the Island as secret Jews, also called marranos, conversos, or Crypto-Jews. Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico began in the 15th century, though the community could not flourish as Judaism was prohibited by the Spanish Inquisition and the first synagogue was not established until a few hundred years later. ...
Ocasio-Cortez did not mention that her family had practiced such traditions, nor did she describe her family history with any degree of specificity.
Later, on Twitter, she appeared to suggest that she may simply have shared Jewish ancestry with other Puerto Ricans in general, whom she described as a mix of cultures. ...
Unlike Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), whose dubious claims of Native American ancestry were subject to DNA testing, Ocasio-Cortez's Jewish claims would be difficult to prove, or to disprove, without a detailed family history.
Oddly, the "democratic socialist" from New York had never mentioned her Jewish ancestry before - at least not in public - even though it might have been politically helpful for her to do so.
(Another self-proclaimed "democratic socialist" from New York City, Julia Salazar, allegedly lied about her Jewish ancestry in running for a New York State Senate seat; she won anyway).
HOWEVER, her sketchy link to Jewish ancestry doesn't prevent her from being overtly anti-Semitic ...
Ocasio-Cortez has expressed anti-Israel views, supporting protests on the Gaza border in May that were organized by the Palestinian terror group Hamas, and calling for an end to the "occupation of Palestine" without specifying what she meant.
That's 'cuz The Bronx Valley Girl doesn't have a clue about the meaning of anything that might spew from her adolescent mouth.
She is also closely aligned with the "Women's March," which has been accused of anti-Semitism for its links with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Sorry, Alexandria ... but if you think the possibility of you having a Jewish ancestor from hundreds of years ago is somehow going to absolve you of being a nasty anti-Semite, today ... well ... you're a twit.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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