By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2026-08-17 19:11:26 | Updated at 2026-08-17 19:38:47
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WASHINGTON — A Democratic Socialists of America candidate running for Congress in Florida appeared to cut a weekend TV interview short when the journo started fact-checking his allegation that Israel is committing genocide.
Wannabe House member Oliver Larkin, who is vying to unseat Dem Rep. Jared Moskowitz, pointed to the United Nations, Amnesty International and some Israeli human-rights organizations in trying to make the claim, but top “This Week in South Florida” host Glenna Milberg wasn’t having it.
“That is factually incorrect,” she bluntly told him. “There’s the definition of genocide in the UN. The UN has said this does not apply to what many people might think of as a disproportionate wartime action.
“Genocide is a very specific thing.”
The two went back and forth, and then Milberg announced that she was “being told we have to wrap.”
The Post contacted Larkin’s campaign for possible information about why the interview was seemingly cut short, but has yet to get a response.
During Larkin’s interview with Local 10, Milberg noted that about one in four voters in Florida’s newly configured 25th Congressional District are Jewish.
At one point, Larkin claimed that the Israeli Defense Force “deliberately targeted women and children” in Gaza, but Milberg told him that wasn’t true.
Larkin has pummeled Moskowitz over his positions supporting Israel and the backing he has received from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Moskowitz has long been willing to punch the far-left, which has made him a prime target for DSA types. His South Florida seat has also generally been seen as competitive, with the Cook Political Report rating it as a toss-up.
His rival wants to cut off funding to Israel, abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and pass the left’s multitrillion-dollar Medicare for All plan
The district includes many immigrants who fled socialism abroad, but Larkin insisted he would be able to make inroads with them nonetheless.
“The operative word is democratic, that I want popular collective input over the systems that govern our lives,” he said when asked about socialism.
“I believe in upholding our civil and constitutional rights,” he insisted, adding that “many people fled, places like Cuba or Nicaragua, as my wife’s parents did back in the 1980s, looking for a better life in the United States of America.”
The primary race for the seat, which is slated to take place Tuesday, will be yet another test of how the far-left fares in swing districts.
Larkin’s race, alongside Bri Robinson’s in Florida’s 4th Congressional District, is among the last DSA-backed candidates to get tested during Democratic primaries in the 2026 midterm election cycle.
