“A long time ago, many generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews,” Ocasio-Cortez, 29, said during a Hanukkah event (source 1)

“We are no one thing,” she said. “We are black; we are indigenous; we are Spanish; we are European.” (source 1)

Just because one concrete identity may not be how we think of ourselves today, nor how we were raised, it doesn’t mean we cannot or should not honor the ancestors + stories that got us here (source 2)

She claims to be jewish and more. And I think she's right.