AOC's campaign office vandalized with anti-Israel message: "AOC Funds Genocide in Gaza".
Her office says she’s faced “multiple threats” on her life in recent days.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has received death threats in recent days and had a campaign office vandalized with a message criticizing her for supporting Israel’s war in Gaza, the campaign manager for the New York congresswoman said Monday.
The congresswoman’s staff is discussing the situation with security officials, campaign manager Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben said in a social media post outlining incidents that come as Ocasio-Cortez, long a focus of animosity from conservatives, faces criticism from progressives over a recent vote on Israel.
“Last night, our campaign office in the Bronx was vandalized and we are in the processing of cleaning it up,” Hidalgo-Wohlleben said on X. “In the past few days, we also have received multiple threats on the Congresswoman’s life and we are treating this seriously with our security partners to make sure she, our staff, and volunteers are safe.”
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Video captured by local news outlets in New York showed the message “AOC funds genocide in Gaza” written on a sign hanging in front of her campaign office in the Bronx, along with red paint splattered on the building’s face.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/aocs-campaign-office-vandalized-with-anti-israel-message-00466671
https://abc7ny.com/post/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-bronx-campaign-office-vandalized-red-paint-banner/17226951/
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The art collective/protest group Decolonize this Place appears to be involved in the messaging.
"makes sense" or is "something good".
are in favor of defunding the Iron Dome missile defense system?
Funding for the Iron Dome missile defense system has enjoyed wide bipartisan support since President Barack Obama first asked for it 15 years ago.
extremists.
Decolonize This Place is led by Amin Husain, a former NYU professor who was suspended after calling NYC "a Zionist city" and denying the October 7 atrocities of Hamas.
https://canarymission.org/professor/Amin Husain
and have been against it long before Hamas started the current war in Gaza.
In 2021, they claimed that a defense system that protects Israelis from Hezbollah and Iranian missile attacks was part of what they call the "Zionist expansionist agenda". 
They called out both Representative Jamaal Bowman and AOC for not voting against funding the Iron Dome defense system back in 2021.
It appears that the DSA central committee thinks that making Israel easier to attack counts as standing with Palestinian people.
The National Political Committee of DSA condemns the barbaric vote by the Congressional House to fund Israel an additional $1 billion for their Iron Dome “missile defense system.”
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We know the Democratic Party exerts enormous discipline on Congresspeople who would dare vote against funding the Zionist expansionist agenda, but little on those who are currently forcing a crisis on funding a critical infrastructure package for the US itself. Even nominally anti-militarist progressives—and most disappointingly our DSA members in Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman—did not vote against this spending.
https://www.dsausa.org/statements/dsa-stands-with-the-palestinian-people-national-political-committee-condemns-iron-dome-vote/
