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An Angry AOC Strikes Back at Pro-Palestinian Protesters! 

&NewLine;<p>De facto leader of the borderline antisemitic &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Squad&comma;” Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez &lpar;AOC&rpar; has struck back at protestors who followed&comma; filmed&comma; and harassed her over her pro-Palestinian stance&period; The left-wing firebrand said that their actions were &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;F&ast;cked up&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Surprisingly&comma; the protestors were pro-Palestinian&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly criticized the war&comma; but the protesters filming her accused her of not calling the war in Gaza a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;genocide&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You refuse to call it a genocide&comma;” one of the protesters says in the video&comma; prompting Ocasio-Cortez to respond with&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I need you to understand that this is not OK&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>When the protester shot back that it’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;not OK that there’s a genocide happening and you’re not actively against it&comma;” the New York Democrat said they were &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;lying&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The protesters followed her down an escalator and out the doors of the theater&comma; still accusing her of refusing to call the Israeli attacks in Gaza &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a genocide&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As she exited the building&comma; the protesters continued to follow her down the street&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The video then cut to Ocasio-Cortez turning to the camera and accusing the protesters of planning to edit the video to make it look like she said something she did not&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And you’re gonna cut this — you’re gonna clip this so that it’s completely out of context&comma;” she told the protester&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I already said that it was&period; And y’all are just going to pretend that it wasn’t over and over again&comma;” Ocasio-Cortez says in the video&comma; referring to calling Gaza a genocide&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s f‑‑‑ed up&comma; man&period; You’re not helping your people&period; And you’re not helping them&period; You’re not helping them&comma;” she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Ocasio-Cortez posted in December 2020 in a thread that defended &&num;8220&semi;defund the police&&num;8221&semi; activists who had confronted politicians in public spaces&period; Yet&comma; she loses it when the shoe is on the other foot&comma; and she is the politician who is made to feel &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;uncomfortable&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>She went on to post&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Activists take that discomfort w&sol; the status quo &amp&semi; advocate for concrete policy changes&period; Popular support often starts small &amp&semi; grows&period; To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable &&num;8230&semi; that’s the point&period;”&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Those posts have come back to haunt Ocasio-Cortez several times in the years since&comma; as she has complained&nbsp&semi;when protesters targeted her&nbsp&semi;at various events&period;&nbsp&semi;Another sign of the young Congresswoman’s level of maturity I suppose&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly called for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war and has raised concerns about the Israeli attacks in Gaza&comma; where the health ministry has reported that more than 30&comma;000 Palestinians have been killed since the onset of the war&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>She said in an appearance on NBC’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Meet the Press” in January that the accusations that President Biden is enabling genocide in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war demonstrate the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;mass inhumanity that Gazans are facing&period;”&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Even when most of the world was supporting Israel&comma; in just days after the Oct&period; 7 attack&comma; AOC was already accusing Israel of committing war crimes while qualifying that she was not defending Hamas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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