{"id":6599,"date":"2024-03-05T02:50:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T02:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/pro-palestinian-protesters-accost-aoc-outside-movie-theater-demand-she-call-israel-hamas-war-a-genocide\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T02:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T02:50:06","slug":"pro-palestinian-protesters-accost-aoc-outside-movie-theater-demand-she-call-israel-hamas-war-a-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/pro-palestinian-protesters-accost-aoc-outside-movie-theater-demand-she-call-israel-hamas-war-a-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian protesters accost AOC outside movie theater, demand she call Israel-Hamas war a \u2018genocide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of pro-Palestinian protesters on Monday accosted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her fianc\u00e9 outside a movie theater in Brooklyn and demanded that she call Israel\u2019s offensive<\/a> in Gaza a “genocide.”<\/p>\n

Video obtained by Fox News Digital shows the protesters, phones in hand, approaching the congresswoman outside the Alamo Drafthouse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“You refuse to call it a genocide,” one of the protesters can be heard saying, to which Ocasio-Cortez fires back: “I need you to understand that this is not okay.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s not okay that there\u2019s a genocide happening and you\u2019re not actively against it,” the protester says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“You\u2019re lying!” Ocasio-Cortez shouts back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The video shows the protesters following her down the escalator, continually berating her for not labeling the war a “genocide.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“If you can\u2019t say it, just say it. Literally. We\u2019re just talking to you like normal people. Just say it\u2019s a genocide. Just say it. Over 30,000 people are dead AOC, you can\u2019t just say it for once?” another protester shouts, citing figures from the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza. “Just say the word, that\u2019s it. That\u2019s all we want you to say.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The protesters chase her and her fianc\u00e9, Riley Roberts, outside the building. At one point, Roberts pleads with the protesters to stop as they continue following the couple down the sidewalk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the protesters asks whether Ocasio-Cortez is concerned her comments would “go viral.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A visibly angry Ocasio-Cortez tells the protesters that they\u2019re going to clip the video so that her comments are “completely out of context.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

She then appears to concede that Israel\u2019s actions constitute a genocide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I already said that it was. And y\u2019all are just gonna pretend that it wasn\u2019t. Over and over again. It\u2019s f—ed up man. And you\u2019re not helping these people. You\u2019re not helping them,” Ocasio-Cortez says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The protesters, clearly unassuaged and dissatisfied with her answer, continue chasing the couple down the sidewalk. One of them mentions her past comments, condemning the Armenian genocide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Why won\u2019t you say it in front of everybody, why us?”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital has reached out to Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s office for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly condemned Israel\u2019s retaliation after the Oct. 7 massacre, in which Hamas militants killed 1,200 civilians, injured hundreds more, and took around 250 hostages.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She has called for a ceasefire and suggested the U.S. “conditioning aid, if not cutting aid<\/a> to the Netanyahu government.” \u00a0<\/p>\n

Just weeks after the Oct. 7 attack, Ocasio-Cortez accused Israel of committing war crimes<\/a>, while qualifying that she was not defending Hamas.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of pro-Palestinian protesters on Monday accosted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her fianc\u00e9 outside a movie theater in Brooklyn and demanded that she call Israel\u2019s offensive in Gaza a “genocide.” Video obtained by Fox News Digital shows the protesters, phones in hand, approaching the congresswoman outside the Alamo Drafthouse.\u00a0 “You refuse to call … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}