AOC doubles down on claims Israel carrying out ‘genocide’ with ‘mass famine’ in Gaza: ‘Crossed the threshold'

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., doubled down Sunday on claiming Israel is carrying out "genocide" in Gaza and implementing a "forced famine" by blocking humanitarian aid to Palestinians.

Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," Ocasio-Cortez defended her speech on the House floor on Friday in which the progressive "Squad" member called on President Biden to stop U.S. military aid to Israel.

"If you want to see what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes. It looks like the forced famine of 1.1 million innocents," she told the House floor. "We must write our story in this moment of what it means and who we are as Americans. And our story must be not that we were good men who did nothing."

CNN's Jake Tapper challenged that "genocide" is a word that has "serious and specific connotations and allegations," that is defined by "the intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, race or religious group." He asked the congresswoman coined AOC whether she believed that the Israeli government or the Israeli military "are actively trying, or actively intend to destroy the Palestinian people – and not that what's happening if horrible, but it's happening because Israel's going after the terrorists of Hamas who attacked them on October 7, and Hamas imbeds within the