NYC councilwoman quits women's caucus to protest anti-Israel agenda

NYC Councilwoman Inna Vernikov said that she discontinue the NYC Council's Women's Caucus implicit its anti-Israel docket successful an interrogation with Fox Friends First connected Monday.

"We each watched the merchandise of these pistillate hostages, these young girls who are lone 20 years old, came retired of captivity, surrounded by Jihadi terrorists with masks on, weapons drawn, lone 20 years old. Could you ideate your daughter, oregon yourself astatine 20 years aged arsenic a woman, being held successful tunnel? God knows what they did to them." 

Vernikov announced successful a video shared connected societal media connected Sunday that she would beryllium leaving her presumption connected the Women's Caucus instantly owed to the group's refusal to merchandise a connection condemning the Hamas terrorists and successful enactment of pistillate hostages who were released from captivity. 

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NYC Councilwoman Inna Vernikov said that she discontinue the NYC Council's Women's Caucus implicit its anti-Israel docket successful an interrogation with Fox Friends First connected Monday. (Fox News)

"I simply asked the Women's Caucus, which I was a portion of successful the New York City Council, to marque a elemental connection condemning the terrorists, supporting these women and calling connected the merchandise of the hostages that are inactive remaining successful captivity," Vernikov explained. 

"Unfortunately, it is the tallness of hypocrisy that a Women's Caucus, successful New York City Council, made up of 30-plus women, who is expected to basal up for women and women's rights, cannot simply condemn terrorists and basal up for women that are Jewish," she said. "I'm retired of that caucus." 

Vernikov responded to disapproval that her departure from the assembly was an enactment of governmental grandstanding. 

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Vernikov said that she was "very grateful" to President Donald Trump for his beardown stance connected the Israel-Hamas war. (Brandon Bell)

"The Democrats are unluckily pandering to the hard left," she said. "We request to basal up, we cannot beryllium cowards, and we cannot proceed having elected officials who are spineless to basal up, and we cannot basal up for women lone erstwhile it is politically expedient for us." 

Vernikov said that she was "very grateful" to President Donald Trump for his beardown stance connected the Israel-Hamas war, which she said makes it imaginable for the merchandise of the remaining surviving Israeli hostages.

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