JEWISH JOURNAL
Cori Bush 2020 Fundraiser Organizer Once Said She Wanted to Burn Down Israel
Aaron Bandler
July 19, 2022

An organizer behind a 2020 fundraiser for Representative Cori Bush (D-MO) is under fire for some of her past tweets, including some expressing a desire to burn down Israel. The Washington Free Beacon reported that, according to the Canary Mission watchdog, Neveen Ayesh––who works with American Muslims for Palestine––tweeted in 2014 that she wished “to set Israel on fire with my own hands & watch it burn to ashes along with every Israeli in it.” She reiterated that desire in another tweet a month later. Other tweets highlighted in the Free Beacon report included a 2011 tweet stating that one of the “crimes worthy of the rope” is “being a Jew,” a 2017 tweet comparing Zionism to Nazism…READ MORE