Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says cutting aid to Israel should be “on the table” and “can be discussed.” This is, in fact, a moderate position.

For one thing, US military aid to Israel is already supposed to be illegal under the so-called Leahy Laws. Those laws bar the US government from giving training, equipment, and other types of assistance to any overseas security forces committing “gross violations of human rights,” which include torture and extrajudicial killing.

There is copious evidence of the Israeli military routinely killing protesters, including teenagers and medics — often from sniper positions hundreds of feet away — despite the plethora of nonlethal, high-tech options it has to repel demonstrators. One could go further back and cite the Israeli military’s indiscriminate bombing and shelling of Gaza, or the frequent reports of Israeli torture of Palestinians, documented by the United Nations and other organizations. But the recent sniper killings alone are sufficient.