'Squad' member Cori Bush stops short of calling Hamas a terrorist group: 'Be careful about labeling'

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Far-left "Squad" member Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., stopped short of calling the terrorist organization Hamas a terrorist organization in a new interview, suggesting she needed to be careful about labeling.

"Would they qualify to me as a terrorist organization? Yes. But do I know that? Absolutely not," Bush told The New York Times, going on to recount how she claims to have been depicted for leading racial injustice protests in Ferguson, Missouri. "I have no communication with them. All I know is that we were considered terrorists, we were considered Black identity extremists and all we were doing was trying to get peace. I’m not trying to compare us, but that taught me to be careful about labeling if I don’t know."

Bush is fighting for her political life in a competitive primary race against Wesley Bell, who has set himself up as a more moderate pro-Israel alternative to the progressive "Squad" member. Like other "Squad" members, she is a fierce critic of Israel and sympathizer with the Palestinian cause. Hamas perpetrated the horrific Oct. 7 terrorist attack that killed more than 1,100 people in Israel and took hundreds of hostages.

"We were called terrorists during Ferguson," Bush said, referring to the riots in the city after a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown in 2014. An investigation found the officer, Darren Wilson, acted in self-defense,