Ocasio-cortez swears at pro-palestine protest pair
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ lost her cool with pro-palestinian protesters on Monday and claimed their tactics were “f---ed-up”.
The Democrat member of Congress and staunch critic of Israel was visiting a cinema in New York with her fiancé, Riley Roberts, when she was confronted by two vocal activists.
In video footage of the flare-up, the protesters follow Ms Ocasio-cortez, 34, complaining she had not publicly called Israel’s invasion of Gaza a “genocide”.
“I need you to understand that this is not OK,” she told one male protester.
“It’s not OK that there’s a genocide happening and you’re not actively against it,” he replied.
“You’re lying,” Ms Ocasio-cortez said.
The politician grew increasingly frustrated as the protesters filmed her and said: “You’re gonna cut it and you’re gonna clip this so that it’s completely out of context.”
The congresswoman insisted she had called Israel’s actions genocide.
“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,” she said. “And you’re not helping these people, and you’re not helping them.”
Ms Ocasio-cortez is considered one of Congress’s most outspoken supporters of a Gaza ceasefire and has repeatedly criticised Israel’s military response to Hamas’s Oct 7 terror attack.
She also condemned Hamas in the “strongest possible terms” shortly after the attack, in which 1,200 Israelis were killed.
Following her encounter with the activists on the issue of the Israel-gaza conflict, a tweet from Dec 2020 resurfaced in which Ms Ocasio-cortez said: “The whole point of protesting is to make [people] uncomfortable.
“Activists take that discomfort with the status quo and advocate for concrete policy changes.”