[Peace-discuss] Cops interrogate activist over embarrassing Israel tweet -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=8z_Fa90BVTw

[J.B. Nicholson]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8z_Fa90BVTw -- (27m 39s) "Cops interrogate activist over 
embarrassing Israel tweet"

Anya Parampil interviewed Ryan Wentz, https://twitter.com/queeralamode "Human Rights 
Watch Watcher", who received a visit from two California Highway Patrol plainclothes 
police officers claiming to work on behalf of the Capitol Police, after Wentz posted 
a non-threatening Twitter post which was critical of her allegiance to the Israel lobby.

https://twitter.com/queeralamode/status/1379879392642408448 is the Twitter post in 
question which reads:

> On April 1, @AOC did a livestream with Michael Miller, the head of the Jewish
> Community Relations Council of New York. She was asked about “peace between
> Israelis and Palestinians.”
> 
> Her response was incredibly underwhelming, to say the very least:

followed by an excerpt of a video interview by the JCRC and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The interview is long, rambling, and eminently deserving of criticism. The video is 
incomprehensible because it's filled with nonsense phrases like "centering people's 
humanity" and talk about the "what" and "how" of something. That Twitter thread has 
many posts critiquing AOC's response. https://youtube.com/watch?v=1utNx-eJ3Yk from 
Jimmy Dore called the AOC interview a "word salad".

According to Wentz, CHP Investigator Christopher Van Klaveren and one other officer 
"accused me of threatening @AOC on Twitter yesterday. This is provably false." (quote 
from https://twitter.com/queeralamode/status/1380284997785948162).



More on this:

Jimmy Dore
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TTBVwTXM2eA -- in which Wentz said that some reply to his 
post was threatening AOC's life. I'm not sure which post that is, but Wentz rightly 
points out that he cannot be responsible for what other people post. One can clearly 
understand that this is powerful people abusing their power to silence dissent.

Max Blumenthal/Grayzone
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/09/anti-war-activist-police-aoc-video/

There's been no response from AOC pointing out how wrong it was to harass Wentz about 
this. AOC, as has been pointed out numerous times elsewhere, embraces the 
authoritarianism.