A group of pro-Palestinian protesters attacked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) and her fiance outside a Brooklyn movie theater on Monday, calling Israeli attacks in Gaza a “genocide.” he demanded.
Footage obtained by Fox News Digital shows protesters holding cellphones approaching a female congresswoman outside the Alabama Drafthouse.
AOC was attacked by pro-Palestinian activists outside a movie theater. (FNTV)
One demonstrator can be heard saying, “Are you refusing to call this a genocide?” to which Ocasio-Cortez responded, “I want you to understand that this is wrong.” .
“It’s wrong to not actively oppose a genocide when it’s happening,” says a demonstrator.
“You’re lying!” Ocasio-Cortez yells back.
The video shows protesters chasing her down an escalator and continuing to criticize her for not calling the war a “genocide.”
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“If you can’t say it, say it. Literally. We’re just talking to you like normal people. Say it’s genocide. Say it. Over 30,000 people died. AOC, you can’t just say that “just once?” ” another protester shouted, citing figures from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. “Just say one word. That’s it. That’s all we need you to say.”
Protesters chase her and her fiancé Riley Roberts out of the building. At one point, Roberts implored protesters who were following the couple on the sidewalk to stop.
One demonstrator asked if Ocasio-Cortez was worried that what she said would “go viral.”
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A visibly angry Ocasio-Cortez told the protesters that she was going to cut the video so that her comments would be taken “completely out of context.”
And she seems to acknowledge that Israel’s actions amount to genocide.
“I already said it was. And you guys are going to pretend it wasn’t, over and over again. It’s messed up. And you’re not helping these people. You’re ‘We’re not helping them,’ Ocasio-Cortez said.
The protesters, clearly unsettled and dissatisfied with her answers, continue to chase the couple on the sidewalk. One of them references her past comments condemning the Armenian genocide.
“Why didn’t you say it in front of everyone? Why in front of us?”
FOX News Digital has reached out to Ocasio-Cortez’s office for comment.
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Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly accused Israel of retaliation after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas militants killed 1,200 civilians, injured hundreds more and took about 250 hostages.
She called for a ceasefire and suggested that the US “conditionalize aid, if not reduce it, to the Netanyahu government.”
Just weeks after the Oct. 7 attack, Ocasio-Cortez said she was not defending Hamas but accused Israel of committing war crimes.
