Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive firebrand from New York, shared her views on solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, comparing it to the fight against the federal government’s abusive treatment of detained children at the southern border.
“The value of human rights is really the path to peace here,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a conversation with Rabbi Michael Miller, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, posted to YouTube on Monday. “That’s a central thing that we need to make sure that we value the safety and the human rights of Israelis and we value the safety and human rights of Palestinians in that process that is similar on equal footing.”