Sen. Ted Cruz called out frequent political adversary Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this week after the Bronx and Queens lawmaker condemned Kanye West’s recent anti-Semitic messages, which led him to be kicked off Instagram and Twitter.
On Sunday, AOC called on her supporters to “reject” recent statements from the rap star-turned-full-time provocateur that implied Jews control the music industry.
West, legally known as Ye, also tweeted Sunday that he would go “death con 3 [sic] On JEWISH PEOPLE,” misusing a term that describes a drastic US military mobilization.
“There is absolutely no room in this country or world for antisemitism,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “It is important to see how harmful + dangerous Kanye’s words are – not only to our Jewish brothers, sisters, & siblings, but also to our collective society at large.”
Cruz, a Texas Republican who often clashes with the progressive lawmaker and her “Squad” of left-wing allies, responded Monday by alluding to Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib’s history of incendiary statements about Israel.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Kanye West’s anti-Semitic tweets “harmful” and “dangerous.” Twitter
Sen. Ted Cruz demands Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “censure the Squad” on Twitter.
“So you’ll be voting to censure the Squad?,” Cruz wrote.
Tlaib, a Michigan congresswoman, said last year that progressives should not support Israel, claiming “the need to oppose Israel’s government’s apartheid rule is obvious.”





Omar also lashed out at a group of her Jewish Democratic House colleagues last year, saying in a CNN interview that “they haven’t been partners in justice.”
Republican lawmakers have repeatedly criticized Omar over her statements, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) vowing to remove Omar from her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee if the GOP takes the House of Representatives in next month’s midterm election.



