Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been accused of advancing “anti-Semitic” views by Jewish Democrats after she suggested that support for Israel was “wildly unpopular”.

Critics argued that the New York representative had “learned nothing” from the Democrats’ losses in November’s elections and blamed her “far-Left” ideology for the Republicans’ clean sweep of the House of Representatives, Senate and White House.

On Sunday, Ms Ocasio-Cortez claimed that AIPAC, a prominent pro-Israel campaign group, was responsible for pushing voters away from the Democrats.

“If people want to talk about members of Congress being overly influenced by a special interest group pushing a wildly unpopular agenda that pushes voters away from Democrats then they should be discussing AIPAC,” she wrote on social media.

The post was quickly condemned by prominent Jewish Democrats, including Ms Ocasio-Cortez’s colleagues in the House.

“If people want to talk about members of Congress being overly influenced by anti-pragmatic and anti-Semitic interests pushing a wildly unpopular agenda that pushes voters away from Democrats,” Dean Phillips, a Jewish congressman, responded.

Esther Panitch, a Jewish Democrat from Georgia, said Ms Ocasio-Cortez had “learned nothing from this last election loss”.

“The American people have rejected the far-Left’s BS claims against Israel,” she added.

Republicans enjoyed a clean sweep in elections this month, with Donald Trump beating Kamala Harris for the presidency, while retaining hold of the House and winning back the Senate.