{"id":3393,"date":"2024-03-06T06:26:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usbnews24.com\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2024-03-06T06:26:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:26:16","slug":"pro-palestinian-protesters-accost-aoc-outside-movie-theater-demand-she-call-israel-hamas-war-a-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/?p=3393","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian protesters accost AOC outside movie theater, demand she call Israel-Hamas war a \u2018genocide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of pro-Palestinian protesters on Monday accosted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her fianc\u00e9 outside a movie theater in Brooklyn and demanded that she call Israel\u2019s offensive<\/a>\u00a0in Gaza a “genocide.”<\/p>\n

Video obtained by Fox News Digital shows the protesters, phones in hand, approaching the congresswoman outside the Alabama Drafthouse.<\/p>\n

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, speaks during a House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Ting Shen\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span>\u00a9\u00a0Ting Shen\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“You refuse to call it a genocide,” one of the protesters can be heard saying, to which Ocasio-Cortez fires back: “I need you to understand that this is not okay.”<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s not okay that there\u2019s a genocide happening and you\u2019re not actively against it,” the protester says.<\/p>\n

“You\u2019re lying!” Ocasio-Cortez shouts back.<\/p>\n

The video shows the protesters following her down the escalator, continually berating her for not labeling the war a “genocide.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of pro-Palestinian protesters on Monday accosted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her fianc\u00e9 outside a movie theater in Brooklyn and demanded that she call Israel\u2019s offensive\u00a0in Gaza a “genocide.” Video obtained by Fox News Digital shows the protesters, phones in hand, approaching the congresswoman outside the Alabama Drafthouse. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, speaks during a House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Ting Shen\/Bloomberg via Getty Images\u00a9\u00a0Ting Shen\/Bloomberg via Getty Images “You refuse to call it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}