Pro-Hamas Online Mob Rips AOC For Condemning Antisemitic Agitators at Nova Festival Exhibit
“The callousness, dehumanization, and targeting of Jews on display at last night’s protest outside the Nova Festival exhibit was atrocious antisemitism – plain and simple.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) received heat from the rabid pro-Hamas mob when she condemned recent displays of antisemitism in New York City after spending months criticizing Israel and sticking up for her antisemitic colleagues.
AOC tried to save face, but the mob didn’t relent. Those on the other side saw right through her.
Background
In the months since the October 7th Hamas terrorist attacks, there has been an alarming rise in incidents of antisemitic expression and attacks worldwide as anti-Israel extremists, emboldened by so-called elected leaders and their media enablers, have shed their masks to show us who they really are.
Being home to the largest population of Jewish people in the United States, New York City, in particular, has become a hotbed of antisemitism, with reports of antisemitic incidents now a near-daily occurrence.
Such was the scene Monday night where, during the Nova Music Festival Exhibition, pro-Hamas activists participated in a “day of rage,” showing support for terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah while lighting flares and severely disrupting the somber event with hate-filled chants:
A mob of anti-Israel protesters chanted “Long live the Intifada” during a depraved celebration Monday night outside a downtown Manhattan exhibit that memorializes the murder and rape victims of the Oct. 7 Nova Music Festival, where 364 people were killed by Hamas terrorists.
The deranged pro-terror crowd lit flares and waved a flag associated with the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah in front of the Nova Music Festival Exhibition on Wall Street during what was billed by organizers as a “citywide day of rage for Gaza,” according to video from the scene.
The protesters also yelled “Israel go to hell” and clashed with police during the gathering that drew swift backlash from Israel supporters.
The demonstration, organized by pro-Palestinian group Within Our Lifetime, began in Union Square, where some protesters unfurled a “Long live October 7th” banner, according to social media footage.
Watch:
#NOW Cops STOP PROTESTERS after they lit up flares outside of Nova Exhibition, the October 7th Hamas attack exhibit that's taking place on Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/wzN4vamaVb
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) June 11, 2024
And yes they make exactly the noise you think they would
The Nova exhibit has multimedia displays with exactly these noises and chanting, now it’s live
— abbaleh (@abbaleh) June 10, 2024
Happening Now: the pro-terror mob has gathered outside the Nova Exhibit in NYC.
Truly disgusting. They are protesting outside a memorial to the victims of October 7. pic.twitter.com/Sa1TIGslXl
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) June 10, 2024
The ADL shared this photo and wrote:
Protestors are currently shouting “Long live the intifada” outside the @novaexhibition in NYC, which memorializes the 364 people massacred by Hamas terrorists at the Nova Festival on 10/7. For anyone still questioning what this slogan means, look no further – it’s support for terrorism and justification for brutal violence against Jews and Israelis.
Protestors are also holding signs that say “Zionists are not Jews & not humans.” This is a textbook example of antisemitic dehumanization – and it’s sickening.
Protestors are currently shouting "Long live the intifada" outside the @novaexhibition in NYC, which memorializes the 364 people massacred by Hamas terrorists at the Nova Festival on 10/7. For anyone still questioning what this slogan means, look no further – it's support for… pic.twitter.com/rKYTU54Hiw
— ADL (@ADL) June 11, 2024
Fortunately, exhibit organizers decided in the aftermath to extend one more week:
The organizer of the Nova Exhibition @scooterbraun's response to yesterday’s protests:
The Nova Music Exhibit is officially extending another week to June 22!
We Will Dance Again https://t.co/bOw7rtmBBk pic.twitter.com/1wp00Afxl0
— Israel ישראל (@Israel) June 11, 2024
AOC
AOC, leader of the so-called “Squad” of radicals in Congress that includes antisemitic members Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN), took to the Twitter/X machine the next day to do something she rarely does: condemn antisemitism:
The callousness, dehumanization, and targeting of Jews on display at last night’s protest outside the Nova Festival exhibit was atrocious antisemitism – plain and simple.
Antisemitism has no place in our city nor any broader movement that centers human dignity and liberation.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 11, 2024
Post Millennial senior editor Andy Ngo was among the many who pointed out the obvious:
The protesters are part of the same extremist organizations (e.g., WOL Palestine) that you supported. https://t.co/xwEYIANkzO
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) June 11, 2024
.@AOC supported radical organisations, then looks horrified when they targeted Jews 🤷🏻♀️ https://t.co/G4JqoZ8R6I
— Nervana Mahmoud (@Nervana_1) June 11, 2024
Save it. We know who you are and what you stand for. pic.twitter.com/mtsgg88azO
— Mor Hogeg (@MorHogeg) June 11, 2024
Marty Dolan, her Democratic primary opponent, had this to say:
The audacity of AOC to condemn antisemitism after spending the last 8 months stoking the flames of the anti-Israel movement w/ her extremist rhetoric & lies.
Where was AOC when Jewish students were being harassed on campuses?
Help us defeat AOC >> https://t.co/puE27QDU6P https://t.co/tHHNlm68Ed
— Marty Dolan for Congress (@MartyDolanNY) June 12, 2024
I would be happy to applaud this statement from AOC if not for the fact that she encouraged the encampments on college campuses and supported every other protest that put Jews at risk.
Don't build a monster and then be shocked when it attacks Jews attending the Nova exhibit. https://t.co/6Nt1GoBTFV
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) June 11, 2024
On the other side of the aisle, the “broader movement” types on the activist left whose support AOC needs were not amused:
My all time favorite activity is reading the responses when a pro-palestinian figure condemns antisemitism (yes, it does happen on occasion). pic.twitter.com/wtPWekVeqf
— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) June 11, 2024
You can never be antisemitic enough for the pro-Hamas mob. pic.twitter.com/Zy3pB4WufZ
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) June 11, 2024
AOC condemns the antisemitic protest outside the Nova exhibit, and look how her followers respond: pic.twitter.com/ECmLkazqpb
— Adam Rubenstein (@RubensteinAdam) June 11, 2024
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has been on the receiving end of bashing from the pro-Hamas side before because in their view she didn’t take her anti-Israelism far enough since she wouldn’t – at the time – call Israel’s campaign against Hamas a genocide:
#NYC "You refuse to call it a genocide" – handful of protesters chase after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a Brooklyn movie theater, "You gonna cut it and take it out of context, I already said that it was" – AOC responded to protesters claims on refusing word "Genocide" , "This is… pic.twitter.com/mipmA5EHu9
— FreedomNews.Tv FNTV (@FreedomNTV) March 5, 2024
Two weeks after that video went viral, AOC gave a speech on the floor of the U.S. House and accused Israel of genocide.
Now, just as she did then, AOC is attempting to explain how she can be staunchly anti-Israel and anti-antisemitism at the same time:
It is laughable.
We can mobilize to end the atrocities in Gaza and combat the rise of antisemitism at the same time. Bigotry in organizing spaces imperils everyone’s work.
I work to end the war, protect ALL my constituents, and fight AIPAC. Believe it or not, you can do all 3. https://t.co/OY5nKdOPyl
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 12, 2024
I am one of the only members of Congress to cosponsor the ceasefire reso since Day 1. I consistently vote NO on military budgets, including further weapons to Israeli gov. I think Netanyahu is a war criminal. AIPAC targets me.
AND I find antisemitism disgusting. Deal with it.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 12, 2024
The terms “reaping and sowing” come to mind here.
Interestingly, on the same day the “day of rage” took place, AOC hosted a live-streamed discussion on antisemitism with the Jewish Council for Public Affairs:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Monday that the “progressive movement is undermined” by the antisemitism that is on the rise in the U.S.
[…]
She emphasized on Monday that “criticism of the Israeli government is not inherently antisemitic, and criticism of Zionism is not automatically antisemitism.”
“That being true, does not mean that we should not recognize when criticism and when that criticism crosses a line into real harms against our Jewish community,” Ocasio-Cortez added.
Watch:
More from AOC:
“Antisemitism is on the rise in America.. Acknowledging that fact does not take away from fights for liberation, it actually advances them.
“The growth of antisemitic attacks and rhetoric before and since Oct. 7 is unacceptable…” pic.twitter.com/9UPVntPI0D
— Jacob N. Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) June 10, 2024
Cynical election-year ploy or a genuine change of heart? I report, y’all decide.
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Comments
Not sure what she is getting at. Someone should ask her to define “antisemitism.”
She is a progressive. They don’t restrict themselves to recognized definitions, they do interpretations of memorized buzzwords.
I for one support the leftist/antiamerican radicals destroying eachother.
on another note…
the years aren’t being too kind to aoc. that mug is really starting to show its mileage!
Ha ha!
I’d say, “Welcome to the ‘far right,’ AOC,” but she isn’t welcome.
The lesson from all this is there is no room to find a middle ground with the pro-hamas crowd. And frankly with most lefties on any subject. They know and accept that this is a fight to the death.
^^^^^10000%^^^^
people dont want to face that fact b/c that would then mean
warrrrrrrrrrr
She is apparently completely dissociated from the real-life day-to-day reality that innocent hostages are being held in the gaza
Including children
Israel was invaded , its citizens were taken captive, that is war, and if it was Alexandria’s abuela or anybody else, that’s the priority.
Imho only a Silence Of The Lambs psychopath could calmly chat about this or that whilst being aware that the gazans are holding innocents against their will.
Btw some of those female captives will soon be having rape-babies.
Any thoughts on that Alexandria?
It must be election time for AOC. She must be from the beautiful Borough of Pandering.
Good for AOC. When our political enemies do the right thing, we should applaud them, not condemn them.
Why? As if that will do anything? It ONLY took the most blatant behavior to get her to comment. Wait until tomorrow. She will be holding hands with Omar and Tlaib.
That’s rich!
Applaud our political enemies when they do the right thing.
But you condemn our political friends no matter what they do. To you, Trump can do one thing wrong, and everything he does is wrong.
What a moron you are.
But we always knew you were a closet tranny lover and Democrat supporter. But that’s redundant.
Do you applaud stopped clocks and blind pigs too?
Even a blind pig finds a stopped clock once in a while.
She’s pandering obviously because some of her squad comrades are facing serious challenges and consequences for their hateful rhetoric, such as Jamal Bowman. So she’s giving a tiny inch to test the waters and see if that will help her distance herself some the extreme hate she obviously supports , but honestly yes reap the whirlwind AOC you are a disgrace and an obvious liar, and no amount of pandering will make up for disgusting behavior towards Jews. I’ll never forget her crying when voting for iron dome funding , because apparently Jews aren’t allowed to protect themselves.
Awwwwww….Sandy ( D-Hamas Bartender ) can’t ride the alligator she has been feeding for years? Sorry, so sad
The alligator got too big for her.
But don’t worry. JR has come to her rescue seeking our applause because she did something for someone.
JR has a point. Much like Fetterman on Israel, Sandy is correct in this and it should be acknowledged. Doesn’t mean she isn’t a wacko imbecile and not our friend who should go back to bartending but when someone is right, it doesn’t hurt to say they are right. Her incessant whining about everyone that doesn’t agree with her and that fingers on a chalkboard voice, though, make it hard.
She repeatedly sez Israel is committing “genocide.”
Imho this is vile and unforgivable.
Let’s see how for long and how determined she is to keep calling it out.
My bet. Less than 24 hours.
shes nuzzling up to hillary
Cue one of the stupidest lines ever: “If you’re getting flak from both sides you must really be a moderate”, or “…you must be correct”.
Yeah, it could also mean your a tard and completely wrong. So wrong no one will give you cover
AOC says she can’t be an antesemite because she was born in 1959.
009ps 89
Love to see the Left attack itself. Many of the most rabid groups on the Left have opposing ideals, but they have been a loosely united front against what they call “fascism” but really isn’t at all.
A former mentor of mine had a saying, “all you get from sitting on the fence is splinters up your…” You can fill in the rest.
I hope and pray that this policy of not taking a strong stand on either side will continue to blow up in Democrats’ faces.
I like how the glasses show no curvature and therefore are simply flat pieces of glass to make her look like an Ivy leagure president.
Almost… but my read on her prescription is that she’s very slightly nearsighted. The sides of her head inside the lenses are slightly inboard of where they would be behind clear glass.
The “smart glasses” just don’t work on her.