Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lashed out at protesters who accosted her at a Brooklyn movie theater and demanded the lefty lawmaker call Israel’s military campaign in Gaza a “genocide,” new video shows.
Ocasio-Cortez was with her fiancé Riley Roberts when she lost her cool and dropped an f-bomb as a couple of protesters badgered her at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema around 5 p.m. Monday.
The protesters complained that Ocasio-Cortez won’t publicly call Israel’s bombing of the Palestinian territory a “genocide” as they confronted her inside the theater, according to the footage.
“I need you to understand that this is not OK,” she told one male protester who held an iPhone near her face.
“It’s not OK that there’s a genocide happening and you’re not actively against it,” the protester shot back.
“You’re lying,” Ocasio-Cortez countered as she walked down an escalator with her beau.
The protesters continued to walk down the escalator behind the Democrat, who was visibly aggravated.
The video then cuts to everyone going outside, with Roberts turning around to confront the rabble rousers.
“Stop,” he said as Ocasio-Cortez walked ahead of him. “OK, stop.”
The lawmaker then ripped into a protester who asked if she was afraid the video clip would go viral.
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“You’re gonna cut it and you’re cut this and you’re gonna clip this so that it’s completely out of context,” Ocasio-Cortez fumed.
“I already said that it was and you’re y’all gonna pretend that it wasn’t over and over again. It’s f–ked up, man. And you’re not helping these people, and you’re not helping them.”
The Post has sought comment from the congresswoman’s office and her campaign.
Ocasio-Cortez tiptoed around calling Israel’s military action genocide when asked on “Meet the Press” in late January.
“Some of your colleagues have accused the president of supporting genocide, including Rashida Tlaib. Do you agree with that word, genocide, that the president’s been supporting a genocide, or does that go too far?” host Kristen Welker asked her during the interview.
“I think what we are seeing right now throughout the country is that young people are appalled at the violence and the indiscriminate loss of life,” the congresswoman said, sidestepping the direct question, but citing a recent United Nations’ International Court of Justice decision that stated Israel as a responsibility to prevent a genocide.
“They are still determining whether it’s a genocide. Do you think that term is responsible given it’s still under investigation?” Welker pressed, with AOC responding, “I believe that they are. They’re still determining it. But in the interim ruling, the fact that they said there’s a responsibility to prevent it, the fact that this word is even in play, the fact that this word is even in our discourse, I think, demonstrates the mass inhumanity that Gazans are facing.”