Mike Huckabee Tells AOC to ‘Keep on with Bartending’ As an alternative of Israel-Palestine After ‘Totally Ignorant’ Christmas Message

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee slammed New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as “completely ignorant” after she posted a Christmas message supporting Palestinian refugees by evaluating their plight to Jesus Christ’s on Monday.

Ocasio-Cortez posted that within the story of Christmas, Christ “was born in modern-day Palestine underneath the specter of a authorities engaged in a bloodbath of innocents.”

She then famous that “1000’s of years later, right-wing forces are violently occupying Bethlehem as related tales unfold for right now’s Palestinians, a lot in order that the Christian neighborhood in Bethlehem has canceled this yr’s Christmas Eve celebrations out of each [fear for their] security and respect.”

Whereas AOC is not any stranger to ruffling Republican feathers, Huckabee, who has repeatedly toured Israel as an outspoken supporter of the nation, was notably riled up.

“This can be a one that is completely ignorant about what she’s speaking about,” Huckabee instructed “Fox and Pals First” on Tuesday. “She might ought to stay to one thing she is aware of like bartending, as a result of for gosh sake, she has no clue in regards to the historical past of the Center East, Jesus, the Jewish folks, the state of Israel or just about the rest she talked about in her publish.”

Huckabee began his criticism of Ocasio-Cortez by asking whether or not or not she was “conscious that Jesus was Jewish?” — a indisputable fact that the U.S. consultant did certainly level out in her preliminary publish.

In her unique Instagram story, Ocasio-Cortez wrote, “This excessive Christian vacation is about honoring the dear sanctity of a household that, if the story have been to unfold right now, can be Jewish Palestinians.” The sentence was omitted from the Fox Information phase and offered a part of the premise for Huckabee’s outrage.

She additionally wrote: “The whole story of Christmas and Christ himself is about standing with the poor and powerless, the marginalized and maligned, the refugees and immigrants, the outcast and misunderstood with out exception.”

The previous governor went on to summarize his historic understanding of Palestine: “Is she not conscious that the entire time period ‘Palestinian’ meant ‘Jewish folks’ till 1962 when Yasser Arafat co-opted the time period and created a nation and made up a folks and referred to as them the Palestinians, who beforehand have been Jordanian?”

Whereas discussing Ocasio-Cortez’s level about Bethlehem canceling Christmas Eve festivities this yr, Huckabee then revealed he has been going to Bethlehem since 1973.

“Again within the ’80s, up till then, 80% of the inhabitants of Bethlehem was Christian. Twenty % was one thing else,” Huckabee mentioned. “Now it’s 80% Muslim, and there’s solely about 15% Christian as a result of the Christians have been just about burned out and shot down by the novel Muslims that took it over again in the course of the intifada.”

Huckabee then spent the remainder of the interview speaking about his current journey to war-torn Israel, a time he described as “one of the sobering experiences I ever had in my life.”

Watch the complete “Fox and Pals First” phase within the video above.

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