Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) said at the March for Israel rally in Washington: "October 7 was a crime against the Jewish State, indeed against humanity, so barbaric that it cannot be ignored. It cannot go unpunished. Hamas must be brought to justice. Israel has a right to defend itself and America has a duty to stand with Israel in her struggle for survival and self-defense."
"Israel must do to Hamas what the United States did to ISIS and Al Qaeda in the 21st century. We must do to Hamas what we did to the Nazis in the 20th century. We must rid the world of the terrorism and barbarism that was perpetrated against humanity and the Jewish people," he said.