{"id":6639,"date":"2024-03-05T13:08:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/flashback-aoc-calls-on-activists-to-make-politicians-uncomfortable\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T13:08:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:08:42","slug":"flashback-aoc-calls-on-activists-to-make-politicians-uncomfortable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/flashback-aoc-calls-on-activists-to-make-politicians-uncomfortable\/","title":{"rendered":"FLASHBACK: AOC calls on activists to make politicians ‘uncomfortable’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Viral video that surfaced Monday showed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>, D-N.Y., snap at pro-Palestinian protesters who confronted her and her fianc\u00e9 outside a movie theater in Brooklyn, New York.<\/p>\n

“I need you to understand this is not OK,” Ocasio-Cortez angrily told the activists as they demanded that she call Israel’s offensive in Gaza a “genocide.” The Democratic lawmaker appeared uncomfortable as the activists accosted her in public, but that was exactly what she called on protesters to do just a few years ago.<\/p>\n

“The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable,” Ocasio-Cortez posted in December 2020 in a thread that defended “defund the police” activists who had confronted politicians in public spaces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The thing that critics of activists don\u2019t get is that they tried playing the \u2018polite language\u2019 policy game and all it did was make them easier to ignore. It wasn\u2019t until they made folks uncomfortable that there was traction to do ANYTHING even if it wasn\u2019t their full demands,” she argued at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS ACCOST AOC OUTSIDE MOVIE THEATER, DEMAND SHE CALL ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR A \u2018GENOCIDE\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Activists take that discomfort w\/ the status quo & advocate for concrete policy changes. Popular support often starts small & grows. To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable … that\u2019s the point,” she posted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those posts have come back to haunt Ocasio-Cortez several times in the years since, as she has complained when protesters targeted her<\/a> at various events.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the video that surfaced Monday, protesters, phones in hand, are seen approaching the congresswoman outside the Alamo Drafthouse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s not OK that there\u2019s a genocide happening, and you\u2019re not actively against it,” one of the protesters tells her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UN FINALLY RECOGNIZES THAT ISRAELI WOMEN WERE RAPED, SEXUALLY ATTACKED BY HAMAS TERRORISTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“You’re lying!” Ocasio-Cortez shot 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

“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 confrontation escalates as the activists chase down Ocasio-Cortez 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

\u2018WOEFULLY SILENT\u2019 AOC BLASTED IN TIMES SQUARE BILLBOARD WARNING OF \u2018TROJAN HORSE\u2019 CHINA THREAT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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

A visibly angry Ocasio-Cortez tells the protesters that they are 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<\/a> 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

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 cease-fire 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

Fox News Digital’s Bradford Betz contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Viral video that surfaced Monday showed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., snap at pro-Palestinian protesters who confronted her and her fianc\u00e9 outside a movie theater in Brooklyn, New York. “I need you to understand this is not OK,” Ocasio-Cortez angrily told the activists as they demanded that she call Israel’s offensive in Gaza a “genocide.” The … 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-6639","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\/6639","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=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}