Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has refused an invitation to tour the Auschwitz concentration camp with a survivor after a Jewish group invited her to visit the camp to educate herself about the Holocaust.
Ocasio-Cortez received widespread condemnation after she compared U.S. border facilities to “concentration camps” in an Instagram video last week while adding the phrase “never again,” a term synonymous with crimes committed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany during World War II. Despite the backlash, the freshman congresswoman has refused to apologize for her remarks and instead doubled down on her comments as she hit back at her critics.
