Cori Bush calls out Israel lobby after defeat

Bush said in a fiery speech after her loss that leaving Congress will only “takes some strings off.”

“Because now, there are some strings that I have attached.

And as much as I love my job, all they did was radicalize me, and now they should be afraid,” she said.

“They’re about to see this other Cori, this other side,” she continued. “There is nothing that happens in my life that happens in vain. So, this happened because it was meant to happen. And let me say, it’s because of the work that I need to do.”

“And let me say this: AIPAC, I’m coming to tear your kingdom down!” she added to cheers.

The “squad” member has called the ongoing Gaza war “Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign,” and earlier this year introduced the Ceasefire Now Resolution.

Some of her rhetoric has been met with backlash from other congressional members, but also constituents in her own district.