Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the super-progressive congresswoman, was leaving the Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn with her fiancé when she was confronted by pro-Palestinian activists. Their charge, essentially, was that the vociferously anti-Israel congresswoman wasn’t quite anti-Israel enough.
In a video apparently posted by the activists, AOC can be seen telling them: ‘I need you to understand that this is not okay.’ One of her accosters replies: ‘It’s not okay that there’s a genocide happening and you’re not actively against it.’
‘You’re lying,’ she shoots back.
The protestors accuse her of failing to describe Israel’s military operation against Hamas in Gaza as a ‘genocide’. As they continue to follow and record her, AOC says: ‘I already said that it was and y’all are just gonna pretend that it wasn’t over and over again. It’s fucked up, man. And you’re not helping these people, and you’re not helping them, you’re not helping them.’
The congresswoman led a group of House Democrats in calling
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