Move over Elizabeth Warren, there’s a new culturally appropriating sheriff in town. Super dingbat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez waited until the last day of Hanukkah to announce she is of Jewish ancestry. Will have to wait for the DNA test, but if she more than 1/1024th Jewish she will take the BS heritage crown from Warren and start the rumors of 2020 presidential run nobody asked for. Then again, Ocasio-Cortez is very dumb so maybe she found out her great-grandfather was a jewel thief and this is what she interpreted that as.
This is from The Washington Post:
A temple in Queens got a small dose of surprise on Sunday — the final night of Hanukkah — when Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat with a knack for dramatic flourish, told those gathered to light the menorah that her ancestors were Jewish.
“One of the things that we discovered about ourselves is that a very, very long time ago, generations and generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews,” said Ocasio-Cortez.
Ocasio-Cortez said she’s been, “doing a lot of family trees in the last couple of years.”
If her genealogy skills are as refined as her understanding of economics, chances are she’s not Jewish, or Spanish, or Puerto Rican and he name isn’t really Ocasio-Cortez.
Ocasio-Cortez explained that she was descended from Jews who fled Spain during the Spanish Inquisition, when “many people were forced to convert on the exterior to Catholicism but on the interior continued to practice their faith.”
“And a strong group of people, strong-willed, that were determined to continue living life as they wanted to live it decided to get on a boat and leave Spain. Some of those people landed in Puerto Rico,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
If her Jewish ancestors were so strong-willed and wanted to continue practicing their faith, why is Ocasio-Cprtez and her entire family Catholic? No, seriously. She says her ancestors feld Spain because the church was trying to convert them to Catholicism and now her whole family is Catholic. What a waste of a boat trip, huh?
The unapologetically liberal WaPo tried to make this seem less like bullshit by dragging Paul Ryan into it:
The discussion of distant Jewish heritage is not an uncommon one. This summer, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), a practicing Catholic, found out that he was 3 percent Ashkenazi Jewish, based on findings from PBS’s “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.”
Yeah, but Paul Ryan doesn’t show up at Synagogues in a yarmulke claiming to be Jewish. Hillary Clinton shows up at Baptist churches pretending to be black, which would be a more appropriate comparison to what Ocasio-Cortez did.
Even the Wapo has their limits as to how far they will push a BS liberal story and called out some screaming hypocrisy with Ocasio-Cortez:
…it could still raise notable questions about her position on Israel and other topics dear to some American Jews, including those in her district, which includes sections of the Bronx and Queens.
This is actually quite devious on Ocasio-Cortez’s part. She can avoid any accusations of anti-Semitism by pretending to be Jewish. President Trump should just come out and say he found he’s part Muslim, black, Mexican, and his ancestors come from shithole countries so he can tell the liberals to STFU about his supposed racism.
Here’s what I think happened: Ocasio-Cortez caught an old episode of Welcome Back Kotter and identified with the Sweathog Juan Luis Pedro Felipo de Huevos Epstein who described himself as a “Puerto Rican Jew.” Hell, maybe her parents are Juan Epstein and Rosalie “Hotsy” Totsy, who knows?
