Fact test: Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez block a congressional resolution against anti-Semitism?

Fact test: Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez block a congressional resolution against anti-Semitism?

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From PolitiFact Texas:

Ted Cruz’s Misleading Attack on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Anti-Semitism

Two sensational members of Congress – Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y. – was engaged in a Twitter conversation in January about the blame for the riots in the Capitol when the topic of their exchange referred to the condemnation of anti-Semitism.

At some point in the dialogue, Ocasio-Cortez said of the Capitol rioters, “They wore Auschwitz shirts, erected gallows and tried to hang the vice president. Your continued apology and denial of Wednesday’s Neo-Nazi presence is heinous and dangerous. The most healing and unifying thing you can do * is to take responsibility for your actions and resign.

Cruz reacted, “Epic hypocrisy. Facts: 1) Nazis are evil. 2) You and your anti-Israel friends have blocked a resolution against anti-Semitism – which I unanimously took in the Senate. 3) Unless they are genocide, it is horrible to call your political opponents Nazis. ”

The two continued to attack over the handling of the resolutions, while Ocasio-Cortez accused Cruz of lying and that Cruz had doubled his claim.

What then happened to the Senate and House resolutions condemning anti-Semitism? There is much to consider here, but for this fact-checking we have focused on the question of whether Ocasio-Cortez and her allies’ ‘brought a decision condemning anti-Semitism’ ‘which Cruz’ unanimously adopted in the Senate.

And we found that Cruz’s version of events omits very important contexts …

Read the full story and see how Cruz’s claim is rated on PolitiFact. Listen to an interview with PolitiFact Texas’s Brandon Mulder in the audio player above.

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