A video released Monday shows Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.N.Y.) slamming pro-Palestinian protesters who confronted her and her fiance outside a movie theater in Brooklyn, New York. The situation was visible.
“I want you to understand that this is wrong,” Ocasio-Cortez angrily told activists demanding that Israel’s attacks in Gaza be called “genocide.” The Democratic lawmaker appeared uncomfortable when activists called her out in public, but that’s exactly what she called out to demonstrators a few years ago.
In December 2020, Ocasio-Cortez posted on a thread defending “defund the police” activists who confronted politicians in public, saying, “The whole point of protests is to make people uncomfortable.” did.
“What people who criticize the activists don’t understand is that they tried to play the ‘polite words’ policy game, but that only made them easier to ignore. “Only then did anything have traction, even if it wasn’t entirely their request,” she claimed at the time.
Pro-Palestinian protesters denounce AOC outside movie theater, demand Israeli-Hamas war called ‘genocide’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was accosted by pro-Palestinian activists outside a movie theater. (FNTV)
“Activists take discomfort with the status quo and advocate for concrete policy changes.Public support often starts small and grows.For those who complain that their protest demands make others uncomfortable, …That’s the point,” she posted.
These posts would come back to haunt Ocasio-Cortez many times over the next few years, as she complained when protesters targeted her at various events.
Video released Monday shows protesters with cellphones approaching lawmakers outside the Alamo Drafthouse.
“It’s wrong to not actively oppose a genocide when it’s happening,” one demonstrator tells her.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her fiance confronted each other outside a movie theater. (FNTV)
“You’re lying!” Ocasio-Cortez shot back.
The video shows protesters chasing her down an escalator and continuing to criticize her for not calling the war a “genocide.”
“If you can’t say it, just say it. Literally. We’re just talking to you like normal people. Just say this is genocide. Just say it. Over 30,000 people died. There you are, AOC. You can’t just say ‘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.”
The confrontation escalated as activists chased Ocasio-Cortez and her fiance Riley Roberts out of the building. At one point, Roberts implored protesters who were following the couple on the sidewalk to stop.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.Y.) speaks to the media outside the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. House Office Building in Washington, D.C., on February 28, 2024. Ocasio-Cortez once spoke to people in public. He once defended demonstrators who called for “the whole point of protests is to make people uncomfortable.” (Countess Jemal/Getty Images, Parliamentary Integrity Project)
One demonstrator asked if Ocasio-Cortez was worried that what she said would “go viral.”
A visibly angry Ms. Ocasio-Cortez told protesters 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.
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.
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She called for a ceasefire and offered the United States “conditional assistance, if not more.” cutting aid to the Netanyahu government. ”
Just weeks after the Oct. 7 attack, Ocasio-Cortez blamed Israel. war crimeswhile identifying that she is not defending Hamas.
Fox News Digital’s Bradford Betz contributed to this report.
