"It's not a border crisis. It's an imperialism crisis. It's a climate crisis."

“The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border and that is exactly what they are. That is exactly what they are. They are concentration camps. The fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the Home of the Free is extraordinarily disturbing and we need to do something about it.”
AOC called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “Trump-like figure” and attributed Netanyahu’s democratic re-election in April to the “ascent of authoritarianism across the world.” “I also think that what people are starting to see, at least in the occupation of Palestine, is just an increasing crisis of humanitarian condition and that to me is just where I tend to come from on this issue” “Apartheid states aren’t democracies.”
Submitted an amendment to block arms sale to Israel.

Voted “NO” on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, 2022, and 2021

Voted “YES” and the NO BAN Act

Voted “NO” on the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, 2019

Voted “YES” on the American Dream and Promise Act of 2019

Voted “YES” on Expressing opposition to banning service in the Armed Forces by openly transgender individuals
Former AOC aide Justine Medina now working as New York Communist Party boss