{"id":48955,"date":"2026-04-02T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/48955\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:44:08","slug":"aoc-promises-to-vote-no-on-defensive-military-aid-for-israel-jns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/48955\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC promises to vote no on defensive military aid for Israel | JNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said she would “never” authorize military aid to Israel, speaking during a private meeting on Tuesday night with the New York City Democratic Socialists of America chapter.<\/p>\n

According to a partial recording a virtual forum shared with City & State<\/a>, Ocasio-Cortez said she has “not once ever voted to authorize funding to Israel, and I will never,” adding that Israel “should be able to finance their own weapons if they seek to arm themselves.”<\/p>\n

A DSA member asked Ocasio-Cortez to commit to voting “no” on “any spending on arms for Israel, including so-called ‘defensive capabilities.'”<\/p>\n

The congresswoman replied, “Yes.”<\/p>\n

“I believe the Israeli government is well able to fund the Iron Dome system, which has proven critical to keep innocent civilians safe from rocket attacks and bombardment,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“Consistent with my voting record to date, I will not support Congress sending more taxpayer dollars and military aid to a government that consistently ignores international law and U.S. law,” he added.<\/p>\n

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) responded on Thursday, tweeting that “making it easier for terrorists to kill civilians isn\u2019t anti-war or pro-peace, it\u2019s just anti-Israel.”<\/p>\n

In July, Ocasio-Cortez released a statement<\/a> in support of “defensive Iron Dome capacities,” saying she does “not believe that adding to the death count of innocent victims to this war is constructive to its end.”<\/p>\n

In 2021, she voted “present” on a funding package for the Iron Dome. This new commitment to the NYC-DSA would see Ocasio-Cortez voting “no” on such a package in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said she would “never” authorize military aid to Israel, speaking during a private meeting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2922,4268,1660,996,1655,1665,1658,2344,37,184,1653,10796,1659,1650,1652,19989,13854,81,1654,9572,10801,1657,782,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-48955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-aipac","9":"tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","10":"tag-arab-israeli-conflict","11":"tag-conflicts","12":"tag-foreign-relations-of-israel","13":"tag-gaza-israel-conflict","14":"tag-government-of-israel","15":"tag-iron-dome","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-israel-news","18":"tag-israel-related-controversies","19":"tag-israel-palestine-relations","20":"tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","21":"tag-judaism-and-warfare","22":"tag-military-of-israel","23":"tag-new-york-city-democratic-socialists-of-america","24":"tag-palestinian-rocket-attacks-on-israel","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-politics-of-israel","27":"tag-politics-of-palestine","28":"tag-politics-of-palestine-region","29":"tag-politics-of-the-middle-east","30":"tag-u-s-news","31":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}