Kirsten Gillibrand actually said...

"It doesn’t matter what meaning you have in your brain, it is now how the word is received."

"When you hear things like intifada, when you hear things like jihad, when you hear ‘from the river to the sea,’ it is received as ‘slaughter the Jews and destroy Israel,’ period."

"I would be very specific in these words, and I would say you may not use them again if you expect to represent everyone, ever again, because they are received as hateful and divisive."

"He should denounce it. And that’s it. Period. And you can’t celebrate it, you can’t value it, you can’t lift it up."