Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was confronted by enraged anti-Israel protesters outside of a movie theater on Monday, demanding she call the war in Gaza a “genocide.”
Ocasio-Cortez and her fiancé were leaving the Alamo Drafthouse when they were faced with several protesters, who stuck cameras in their faces and demanded they address the “genocide” in Gaza at the hand of Israeli forces.
One protester approached AOC, saying, “You refuse to call it a genocide!”
“I need you to understand that this is not okay,” the congresswoman responded, looking flustered.
“It’s not okay that there’s a genocide happening, and you’re not actively against it,” the protester fired back.
“You’re lying!” Ocasio-Cortez responded.
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The protesters then followed AOC down the escalator, demanding she say the word “genocide.”
“If you can’t say it, just say it,” one protester shouted.
“Literally. We’re just talking to you like normal people,” they continued.
“Just say it’s a genocide. Just say it. Over 30,000 people are dead AOC, you can’t just say it for once?”
The protester was citing figures from the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza” as per Fox News.
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“Just say the word, that’s it. That’s all we want you to say,” the protester asserted.
AOCs’ fiancé, Riley Roberts, confronted the protesters, pleading with them to stop.
At one point, one protester said Ocasio-Cortez was only concerned about her comments going viral, to which she quipped back that her comments would be taken “completely out of context.”
“I already said that it was. And y’all are just gonna pretend that it wasn’t,” AOC said.
“Over and over again. It’s f**ked up man.”
“And you’re not helping these people. You’re not helping them,” Ocasio-Cortez continued.
Ocasio-Cortez previously called for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip following the October 7 massacre.
“We are seeing a level of depravity in Gaza that is becoming morally untenable to support,” she said in February.
