Members of the House “Squad” are doubling down on their calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, despite pushback from their party’s establishment.
Facing accusations of antisemitism, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Cori Bush (D-MO) joined the Jewish “Rabbis for Ceasefire” group at a rally in Washington, D.C. They all delivered remarks, praising the group and decrying the war in Gaza.
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“The loss of life we have seen in a mere five weeks is overwhelming, devastating, incomprehensible,” Pressley said. “Entire generations of Palestinian families erased, entirely. Again, Vengeance is not a foreign policy doctrine.”
“There is no justification for the collective punishment of the Palestinian people from their elders to their babies,” she…
