Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the much-ballyhooed new — and at 29, the youngest ever — member of the House of Representatives, recently announced, at a celebration in Queens on the last day of Hanukkah, that she has Jewish — Sephardic — ancestry. She claims that she is a descendant of Sephardic Jews who fled Spain during the Inquisition, and made it to Puerto Rico. How many Sephardic Jews there are in her family tree, and what percentage of her ancestry, is “Sephardic Jewish,” she did not make public. Only she and ancestry.com — or some similar group — know for sure.
Why, one wonders, did she raise this only now? Why not have mentioned it when running for Congress from New York, to appeal to some Jewish voters, and to try to immunize herself from criticism for the ill-informed remarks about Israel that she made during an interview with Margaret Hoover of Firing Line on July 18?
For let us remember what Ocasio-Cortez, a self-styled “progressive” — a word which nowadays, alas, often suggests a palpable want of sympathy for Israel — said in that interview on July 18. She described Israel’s presence in the West Bank as an “occupation.” That word implies that Israel has no claim to the West Bank, save as a military occupier. This would put the West Bank on the same level as Occupied Japan (to which the United States made no permanent claim), Occupied France (to which Nazi Germany had only the claim of military conqueror), or Occupied Berlin, divided into four sectors under the control of the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, with all four countries seen as temporary military occupiers, having no permanent claim on Berlin.
But Israel’s claim to the West Bank is not solely, or even mainly, that of a military occupier. It has two separate and very strong claims to all of the land on the west side of the Jordan River.. The first claim is based on the Mandate for Palestine itself. The entire territory of the West Bank (as the Jordanians deliberately renamed those parts of Judea and Samaria that they held at the end of the 1948-49 war) was originally included in the territory allocated to the Mandate for Palestine, which had been created for the sole purpose of establishing the Jewish National Home. It was well understood that eventually that Jewish National Home would become the Jewish state. The only reason the entire West Bank was not originally included in the new state of Israel is that the Jordanian army managed to hold onto part of it when hostilities ended in 1949. Had Israel been in possession of all of the West Bank at the end of those hostilities, that would have been the end of the matter. The Jordanian claim, unlike that of Israel, was based only on it being a military occupier of part of the West Bank from 1949 to 1967. By their military victory in 1967, the Israelis were at long last able to enforce their pre-existing legal claim, which had been established in1922, by the provisions of the Mandate itself.
A second, and independent claim, to the West Bank by Israel is that which arises out of the language of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242. That resolution, as its author Lord Caradon, the British ambassador to the U.N., repeatedly made clear, did not require Israel to return all of the territory it had won in the “recent conflict” (the Six-Day War of June 1967). Lord Caradon described Israel’s pre-1967 lines as impermanent armistice lines, reflecting only where the Israeli and Arab troops were located at that moment when the armistice went into effect. He further described those lines as “a rotten border,” and for good measure added “you couldn’t have a worse line for a permanent international boundary.” In other words, there should be no forcing Israel back into the1949 armistice lines. Despite Lord Cardamon’s insistence on the meaning of the resolution, the Arab states kept trying to claim that Resolution 242 required Israel to withdraw “from all the territories” it had just seized. Lord Cardamon said, heatedly, that the Resolution most definitely did not mean that; if he had intended to mean that he would have written it that way; he deliberately wrote instead “from territories” taken in the recent conflict.
Tony46 says
Reporter :
-Did you have a DNA test?
Ocasio:
-NO,…I just don’t drive..
VRWC member77 says
The only people dumber than Octagon Kortezz are the ones who voted for her.
mtman2 says
Actually her real name is- Alexandria
Occassional
Cortex
CelticToTheBone says
I saw here recently, where it has been recalled and renamed Alexandria Occasional-Coherence in recognition of it’s normative behavioural characteristics.
I’m still waiting for some actual “Coherence” from the twot. The protruding eyes are symptomatic of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Tony46 says
About Israel legitimacy: Actually ,….is in the Quran:
”….because the land …that We(Allah) gave to Israel….after We destroyed the Pharaoh,….will belong to Israel forever…even till the day when they return to the Land”
Surah 17:100-104
Quran.
lisalles says
Not exactly. ﯸ ﯹ ﯺ ﯻ ﯼ ﯽ ﯾ ﯿ ﰀ ﰁ ﰂ ﰃ ﰄ ﰅ ﰆ
SAHIH INTERNATIONAL
And We said after Pharaoh to the Children of Israel, “Dwell in the land, and when there comes the promise of the Hereafter, We will bring you forth in [one] gathering.”
Elisha says
https://www.meforum.org/articles/2009/the-qur-an-israel-is-not-for-the-jews
gravenimage says
The Qur’an makes it clear that “Allah” later gave the whole world–including Israel–to Muslims, because Jews were no longer Muslim. (No, it doesn’t make sense–but then, Muslims don’t think that Islam has to make any rational sense, so long as it supports Islamic supremacy).
mortimer says
GI, Please share the Koranic verse you believe grants the world to Mohammed. I do not know it. However … Mohammed did say the following…
– “Abu Sa’eed Al-Khudri reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “The entire earth has been made a place of prayer except for the graveyards and the latrine.” – Source: Sunan At-Tirmidhi 317
– Sahih Bukhari – Volume 52, Book 4, Hadith 220
Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, “I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world were brought to me and put in my hand.” Abu Huraira added: Allah’s Apostle has left the world and now you, people, are bringing out those treasures (i.e. the Prophet did not benefit by them).
gravenimage says
There’s this one, Mortimer:
And Moses said unto his people: Seek help in Allah and endure. Lo! the earth is Allah’s. He giveth it for an inheritance to whom He will. And lo! the sequel is for those who keep their duty (unto Him).
–Qur’an 7:128
This only held for Jews when they were–as Islam sees it–actually Muslim.
Emilie Green says
“She claims that she is a descendant of Sephardic Jews who fled Spain during the Inquisition”
Oh-oh, she’s just been added to the We-Will-Be-Killing-You list of Andre Carson, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar,
gravenimage says
I doubt it. This is more a dig at Infidels who fought back against Jihad than anything else. My bet it that we will hear little about her “Jewish heritage” in future.
Uriah Sheep says
Should be easy to verify.
TWG says
The eyes of the jacked-up lunatic. I’d like to know what’s in her (?) medicine cabinet.
Tom W Harris says
It’s Popey the Sailor Man!
Tom @ Harris says
Oops..I misspelled
PoopyPopeye.A_M_Swallow says
Oh! I thought you were making a drugs joke about poppies.
Tom W Harris says
Hey, that’ll work too!
H.D. Carver says
The childlike look of surprise the Cortez visage often displays is understandable, equating to the expression of wonder so many children display when they learn something new. Given that Cortez has so much to learn, we will be seeing this expression a lot.
Tom W Harris says
Maybe she has Williams Syndrome.
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A_M_Swallow says
Conversions frequently have a convertor. I wonder who told her to celebrate Hanukkah?
gravenimage says
I doubt she celebrates Hanukkah. She is just saying–truthfully or not–that she has a bit of Jewish heritage.
jewdog says
Her constituency is mainly Third World, so the facts don’t matter, just solidarity with Third World slobs.
Indiana Tom says
Bingo.
somehistory says
This is just one more thing she has said to show her need for constant attention Will she follow the warren woman who claimed Native American ancestry and have make public test results? Will she claim persecution when people don’t believe her?
According to recent “news” on this airhead with a large mouth, she needs a “rest” before taking her seat. Brings up memories of old shows where the person getting ready to sing says, “me me me meeeee.”
Anything to stay in the spotlight.
mortimer says
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez eats her cake and wants to have her cake.
Another Leftarded globalist who yearns for no borders and the destruction of the Jewish homeland.
THE BIBLE IS A VERY, VERY ZIONIST BOOK. The name “Jerusalem” occurs 806 times in the Bible, 660 times in the Old Testament and 146 times in the New Testament; alternate names like ‘Zion’ or ‘Salem’ appear 161 times. In the Old Testament, the name ‘Israel’ is mentioned well over 2,000 times: 1489 times in I & II Chronicles;591 times in the books of the Prophets; 441 mentions of ‘Israel’ as the name that was given by God to Jacob. The New Testament mentions ‘Israel’ or ‘Israelite’ 77 times. Jerusalem is NEVER MENTIONED AT ALL in the Koran. ‘Israel’ appears 46 times in the Koran and ‘Children of Israel’ appears 20 times in the Koran. ‘Palestine’ does not appear in the Koran. The Koran refers to ‘The LAND’ of Israel as the land Allah assigned to Jews and where Allah commanded Jews to dwell. We must conclude from counting these terms in the Bible and Koran that both books are very Zionist.
The connection of Jews to Israel is thus affirmed by Old Testament, New Testament and the Koran.
RonaldB says
This column actually has two, almost completely distinct, parts.
One deals with Cortez’s claim to have Jewish ancestry. In that, she’s in good company: Karl Marx, Disreaeli, Einstein, Bohr, Oppenheimer, etc, etc. It’s not very significant; she can be judged on her own merits, or lack thereof. If she wants to buttress her claim of Jewish heritage, she’ll have to open a book sometime and actually learn something.
The second part deals with Israel’s claim on the West Bank, and the antecedents in UN actions and resolutions. In point of fact, it’s quite clear that UN resolutions are based on power, politics, and bureaucratic inertia. Countries routinely observe them or ignore them as is convenient. Up to now, thankfully, the UN has no actual power in enforcing any of its resolutions.
My view is that the UN is extremely dangerous. In many, or most cases, it contributes to ongoing conflicts by providing pressure for combatants to stop fighting short of a situation where the conflict in question is actually resolved. It would have been better if Israel had ignored the UN altogether in 1949 and expanded its territory until it had secure and defendable borders. And perhaps moved more Arab Muslims out. These refugees would have integrated into the countries to which they fled, and developed an identity there. As it is, they’re stuck in crumby camps and strips of land, maintained on handouts, and nursing intense anger and grudges making them unwelcome anywhere in the world. It wouldn’t exactly have been a just resolution, but over time, better for everyone involved.
Sometimes, it is simply a bad idea to have a ceasefire when the reasons for conflict still exist.
Of course, if Israel uses military force to carve out its territory, it will have to rely on military force to maintain itself. Not very different from the actual situation. Of course, a country that has smart leadership will attempt to build political connections that alleviate the hostilities with its neighbors, once the border shifting is done.
CelticToTheBone says
Well spoken, RonaldB, as per usual! – An Irishman Abroad.
Terry Gain says
Israel was created by UN Resolution 181 which gave the West Bank – and far too much territory – to the Arabs, and left Israel without sufficient land to support a growing population. The question now is whether Jordan forfeited the West Bank by launching unsuccessful wars against Israel.
http://mfa.gov.il/mfa/aboutisrael/maps/pages/1947%20un%20partition%20plan.aspx
Terry Gain says
Here is the map of Israel as created by UN Resolution 181, which was a prescription nor eternal conflict.
http://mideastweb.org/un_palestine_partition_map_1947.htm
Terry Gain says
for not nor
Hugh Fitzgerald says
The Jews reluctantly accepted U.N. Resolution 181 of November 29, 1947 but the Arabs failed to accept it, and instead unanimously rejected it. That rejection ended, revoked, put paid to, the offer. Contracts 1: Offer and Acceptance. The offer was made, in effect, by the Jews in agreeing to it: “Here, Arab states, we offer to take as the borders of our teeny-tiny Jewish state these absurd Partition lines as set out by the U.N. in Resolution 181.” The Arabs rejected the Partition Plan, and have been trying ever since to turn their rejection into an acceptance, in order to resuscitate and apply U.n Resolution 181. Sorry, Arab states – no can do. You missed your chance back in 1947. And when you attacked Israel on May 15, 1948, you really showed how little you cared for Resolution 181. What was it Abba Eban said? “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity..”
Brush up your Corbin, Arab states, please do..And while you’re at it, do check out Restatement (Second) of Contracts, Sect. 36 (a()(1).
epistemology says
The Jews had no other option and they made the best of it. Israel today is a blossoming, marvelous country always contributing to science, technology and art. In 1967 the Israelis won the war and got all of Jerusalem and the so-called West bank which is Judea and Samaria.
That stupid bitch is obviously not of Jewish origin as she tells lies about Israel.
clap says
It’s not so much that she’s lying as it is that she has no idea what she’s talking about. The democrats should really put a muzzle on her.
ItsReallyQuiteClear says
I think the Democrats are more likely to put a muzzie on her…
Terry Gain says
Hugh Futzgerald
I am well aware that the Jews accepted UN Resolution 181 and that the Arabs rejected it ( as says the article I linked) but since when is a UN Resolution only valid if accepted and when did the offer, as you call it, expire. I don’t think I need to brush up on Contact Law. The B+ I obtained 50 years ago and a lifetime of commercial litigation has stood me in good stead but I could benefit from research on the issue of whether territory obtained in a defensive war is forfeited.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
I was just having fun with Corbin and the Restatement 2nd– “Brush up your Corbin” was aimed at the Arabs. I’m sorry if you thought I was trying to give you, or anyone on the right side, a lesson. I certainly was not. When the Arabs unanimously rejected Resolution 181, at that point the offer expired. Why did the Arabs reject it when the Partition Plan was so favorable to them? Because they were sure they would be able to destroy the nascent Jewish state in the war that they would unleash, and kill or drive out all the Jews from Palestine (Azzam Pasha’s prediction that “there will be a massacre and war of extermination” like that of the “Mongols and the Crusades”). Fortunately, they were wrong.
Rarely says
Jordan’s “right” to the West Bank was based solely on the “right of conquest” Israel, of course, being “unique” among Nations has no such “right:.
It’s all academic anyway since Israel’s enemies, clearly in control of the UN, assert that Israel has no right to even exist.
In a State where Freedom of Religion exists the existence of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank would be irrelevant since the inhabitants would simply become “Palestinian” citizens once such a State was created (if they decided to stay, of course). It’s only an issue because the Palestinian leadership has sworn itself to have a “Jewish-free” State. OTOH 20% of Israeli citizenry is Arab muslim. When Israel was created in 1947 the Arab muslims living in the area were not only allowed to stay but were encouraged to do so. What a terribly racist state!!! (sarc)
WPM says
People vote for her because she is a Hispanic women in a district that has few English speaking Americans she is fast and loose with facts. Her only job experience before being elected was as a barmaid I wonder how many tips Soros is giving her for good service? She is known as good friends with Linda Sansour like Mayor Bill “Conrad Red” Deblasio .She was cheer leading for a boycott of products from Israel and call Israel apartheid state like the past South Africa State not too long ago at a rally for Palestine .
762x51FMJ says
Occasional cortex has been officially banned from the Kentucky Derby…
The horses saw her mouth, lined up against the railing and it turned into a dog and pony show..
762x51FMJ says
I went golfing with my younger sisters friends they really like occasio cortez. But do they have to kneel down next to the ball washer on all 18 holes? Because camping on the course overnight is prohibited..
dan christensen says
The International Astronomical Union named the asteroid 23238 “Ocasio-Cortez” after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when she was a senior in high school in recognition of her second-place finish in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
The asteroid in question was discovered on November 20, 2000, by the Lincoln Observatory Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. LINEAR, built in 1996, uses ground-based telescopes at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to scan for asteroids and comets
– Especially any that may pose a threat to our planet.
Very appropriate they named that particular asteroid after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
WPM says
The rock in the space has more brain power then Alexandria Ocasio -Cortez ,a whole box of rocks if elected to represent her district would serve the people there better.
Indiana Tom says
Well, if we all become Jewish, it will end Anti-Semitism, whatever that is.
Shalom!
Although in all fairness if you read the New Testament things can be interesting concerning who the children of Abraham are.
…28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.
somehistory says
Paul wrote to the Romans about “who is a Jew” and how to know. Romans 2:28
One should always, no matter the race or color, be honest. This woman doesn’t seem to be.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Mr Fitzgerald, why you have skipped UN Resolution No 181 reinforced by Resoulition No 242 partitioning the land into two states, Palestine(including westbank and East Jerusalem) and fascist evil Zionist State of Israel,and that fascist evil Zionist State shall withdraw to Pre-1967 borders? Are you saying Lord Cardon’s opinion could override UN Resolutions? Refresh your knowledge on International Law, if at all you know it. Remember, under UN Charter territory cannot be acquired through annexation as evil Zionist State did,which you assume fascist evil Zionist State took it’s own land. I want know from Mr Fitzgerald what was the name of the whole land comprising Palestinian territory and that of fascist evil Zionist State of Israel. Judea and samaria you keep on saying are part of Palestine. Note:Before Abraham who was the ancestor of Israelites Palestinian ancestors were there. To say that palestinians were Arabs who settled there after muslim conquest is absolute nonsense. In fact when Muslim Arabs conquered the land sacking mithraist christian Byzantines they found that the Byzantine colonisers killed many Jews and the rest fled- leaving Palestinians there -exactly like what this lady was saying her ancestors fled Spain during wars of inquisition where muslims and Jews were murdered and the rest fled. It was after mithraist christian Byzantines were driven away that Muslims allowed the Jews to come back.
mortimer says
From Robert Spencer … “several Muslim spokesmen have recently claimed that the Qur’an promises Israel to the Jews and that the claims of Hamas, Hezbollah, and allied groups are illegitimate on Islamic grounds.[2] This is a comforting message, which some of these spokesmen have taken to Jewish audiences, reinforcing the idea that the Islamic jihad imperative against Israel is simply the province of a tiny minority of extremists and that the voices of reason, moderation, and Qur’anic authenticity will eventually prevail.
Muhammad al-Hussaini’s Liberal Stance
Among these scholars is British-based imam Sheikh Muhammad Al-Hussaini, who asserts that early Muslim intellectuals recognized that Israel belonged to the Jews. “You will find very clearly that the traditional commentators from the eighth and ninth century onwards have uniformly interpreted the Koran to say explicitly that Eretz Yisrael [Heb. The Land of Israel] has been given by God to the Jewish people as a perpetual convenant [sic]. There is no Islamic counterclaim to the Land anywhere in the traditional corpus of commentary.”[3]
Although an extremely comforting message to supporters of Israel, it is not true and is based on a partial and inaccurate reading of the Qur’an.
Hussaini bases his argument primarily upon Qur’an 5:21 in which Moses declares: “O my people, enter the Holy Land which God has prescribed for you, and turn not back in your traces, to turn about losers.”[4] He then cites the classic Qur’an commentator Muhammad ibn Jarir at-Tabari (838-923), who explains that this statement is “a narrative from God … concerning the saying of Moses … to his community from among the children of Israel and his order to them according to the order of God to him, ordering them to enter the holy land.”
gravenimage says
This from Ibrahim itace muhammed is ludicrous. He has said that he seeks the utter destruction of Israel, as well as his looking forward to personally taking part in the genocide of the Jews.
ItsReallyQuiteClear says
Ocasio-Cortez shouldn’t stop her feckless vote pandering with her claims of Jewish heritage. She’s missing out on pandering to a number of different constituencies:
She could claim that she thinks her uncle once had a green jacket, so that means that she understands the needs of veterans.
She could claim — and only someone with her unique talents could pull this off — that, all her life, when she sits down to work at a desk, she’s relied upon a wheeled chair[sic], and so she has solidarity with people with disabilities.
She could claim that she’s descended from Canadian royalty, her heritage being recognized by the image of a loon on the back of the Canadian one-dollar coins. Like Ocasio-Cortez, the Canadian dollars are affectionately called “Loonies”.
But in reality, it probably won’t matter what she says, as long as she’s not a Repugnantcan…
somehistory says
Evidently, she is now in an argument with Politico because of what they reported about her. She said something about “birdcage” paper.
(GOPUSA)
Xero_G says
My college-age niece has had a girl-crush on AOC ever since watching her slick campaign introduction video which was heavy on emotion but devoid of policy. When I brought that up, she snapped back, “Nobody cares about policy!!”
gravenimage says
I doubt she celebrates Hanukkah. She is just saying–truthfully or not–that she has a bit of Jewish heritage.
abad says
Liberalism:
The more minority groups that one can claim membership in, the more one can play the victim card.
Daniel Silvan says
I doubt she is Jewish. Every Jew I know is smart.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
mortimer, the relevant Quranic verses are talking about exodus of Israelites from Egypt back to the land of Palestine ,not conferring exclusive ownership of the land to the evil Jews . there is nowhere in Quran 5:21 that the land was “prescribed “exclusivesly for Jews. it reads in Its original Arabic text “fadkhulu Ardal muqaddasa lati kataba Allah lakum la tartadu fa tanqalibu hasirin (o my people enter the holy land which Allah has commanded you to settle, don’t turn back for you to become losers) “refering to admonishing by Moses to Israelites who said they will not go back to Palestine. It means Israelites were given right to settle in Palestine, not exclusive right to reject Palestinian ancestors they met when they came back from Egypt. There is nowhere in the Quran where Allah commanded that those the Jews met shall be erased for them to settle as it is the case in Samuel 15:3 of pagan Bible the book of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Assuming that idiot so-called cleric interpreted these Quranic verses to mean that the whole palestine belongs to evil Jews, it is wrong. Idiot bastard murderer Ibn salman shares this perverted interpretation and allying with the leader of all evils Netanyahu to exterminate all Palestinians and residents of Sinai and Golan height territories for the expansion of fascist evil Zionist State of Israel. wicked scums of evils
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed considers anyone who is opposed to the horrors of Jihad to be “wicked scums of evils”…
dan christensen says
Where in the quran do you read that the loving and peaceful muslims should attack the Christian Spain?
The alleged peaceful and loving islam is the most aggressive and warlike religiomilitary fascist system on earth.
The core of islam is cowardly lying and deceiving.
The arabs even needed a Christian general, Lawrence of Arabia, to free them from the imperialistic islamic Ottoman tyranny.
Muslims are spreading all over the civilized world, only thanks to the Wests treacherous Elites.
Yitz says
She is of jewish ancestry? Yeah and i am mickey mouse
FYI says
I often wonder if Louis Farrakhan has Jewish roots.
Probably… on both sides and…some Whitey too..maybe some Termites..{stop it!}}
When you go back in time in Genealogical analysis you often get surprises.
Like muhammed ali’s white Irish immigrant great grandfather,Abe O’ Grady..