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AOC launches into wild rant at anti-Israel protesters

  • Pro-Palestine demonstrators ambushed Ocasio-Cortez and fiance Riley Roberts exterior the boutique theater Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn 
  • ‘You refuse to name it a genocide, I want you to know that this isn’t okay,’ the protester says 
  • Ocasio-Cortez yells in response: ‘You’re mendacity!’ and proceeds to admonish the protesters 

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Left-wing ‘squad’ Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lashed out at an anti-Israel protester who confronted her and her fiance at a movie show demanding she name what’s occurring in Gaza a ‘genocide.’

Pro-Palestine demonstrators ambushed Ocasio-Cortez and fiance Riley Roberts exterior the boutique theater Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn.

‘You refuse to name it a genocide, I want you to know that this isn’t okay,’ the protester says.

‘It’s not okay that there is a genocide occurring and you are not actively towards it,’ the protester provides.

Ocasio-Cortez yells in response: ‘You’re mendacity!’

Left-wing 'squad' Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lashed out at an anti-Israel protester who confronted her and her fiance at a movie theater demanding she call what's happening in Gaza a 'genocide'

Left-wing ‘squad’ Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lashed out at an anti-Israel protester who confronted her and her fiance at a movie show demanding she name what’s occurring in Gaza a ‘genocide’

Visibly offended, Ocasio-Cortez ranted again on the protesters.

‘I already mentioned that it was. And y’all are simply gonna fake that it wasn’t. Over and over once more. It’s f***ed up man. And you are not serving to these individuals. You’re not serving to them,’ she says. 

‘Why will not you say it in entrance of everyone, why us?’ one responds. 

The protesters proceed: ‘If you possibly can’t say it, simply say it. Literally. We’re simply speaking to you want regular individuals. Just say it is a genocide. Just say it. Over 30,000 persons are lifeless AOC, you possibly can’t simply say it for as soon as? Just say the phrase, that is it. That’s all we wish you to say.’ 

Roberts tries to dissuade the protesters from persevering with to comply with her as they left the theater.

At one level, Ocasio-Cortez fumes that they’ll take what she says ‘out of context’ and make it go viral. 

Ocasio-Cortez, seen as essentially the most outstanding leftist within the House of Representatives, has been important of Israel as just lately because the weeks following the October 7 Hamas terror assault.

She joined her fellow squad Democrats within the hours following the assault in calling for ‘de-escalation and ceasefire’ and has repeated these claims, slamming each Israel and Hamas and has described the IDF’s army marketing campaign as committing ‘conflict crimes.’

Pro-Palestine demonstrators ambushed Ocasio-Cortez and fiance Riley Roberts outside the boutique theater Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn

Pro-Palestine demonstrators ambushed Ocasio-Cortez and fiance Riley Roberts exterior the boutique theater Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn

'You refuse to call it a genocide, I need you to understand that this is not okay,' the protester says. 'It's not okay that there's a genocide happening and you're not actively against it,' the protester adds

‘You refuse to name it a genocide, I want you to know that this isn’t okay,’ the protester says. ‘It’s not okay that there is a genocide occurring and you are not actively towards it,’ the protester provides

Ocasio-Cortez yells in response: 'You're lying!'

Ocasio-Cortez yells in response: ‘You’re mendacity!’

Visibly angry, Ocasio-Cortez ranted back at the protesters. 'I already said that it was. And y'all are just gonna pretend that it wasn't. Over and over again. It's f***ed up man. And you're not helping these people. You're not helping them,' she says

Visibly offended, Ocasio-Cortez ranted again on the protesters. ‘I already mentioned that it was. And y’all are simply gonna fake that it wasn’t. Over and over once more. It’s f***ed up man. And you are not serving to these individuals. You’re not serving to them,’ she says

Ocasio-Cortez, seen as the most prominent leftist in the House of Representatives , has been critical of Israel as recently as the weeks following the October 7 Hamas terror attack

Ocasio-Cortez, seen as essentially the most outstanding leftist within the House of Representatives , has been important of Israel as just lately because the weeks following the October 7 Hamas terror assault

Ocasio-Cortez was even slammed for her Christmas put up that known as Israel a violent occupying power and likened Jesus to the Palestinians. 

Posting on Instagram on Christmas Eve, AOC shared a photograph of a kid mendacity on a pile of rubble surrounded by wood nativity scene icons. 

Accompanying the picture, the New Yorker wrote: ‘In the story of Christmas, Christ was born in modern-day Palestine below the specter of a authorities engaged in a bloodbath of innocents.’

She went on to match Jesus being hunted by King Herod to the ‘right-wing forces’ presently ‘violently occupying Bethlehem.’

Her put up sparked a fierce backlash on-line with some accusing her of ‘Jew hate.’

Ocasio-Cortez’s sympathies in direction of Palestinians had been famous as early as 2019, her first yr in Congress

She claimed that Palestinians haven’t any selection however to riot towards Israel – and agreed with a radio host that the nation is ‘legal’.