Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) criticized Florida Governor Ron DeSantis this week for wanting to protect the United States from extremists by not allowing Palestinian refugees to come into the country.

The remarks come as Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization, murdered more than 1,400 Israelis in unprecedented terror attacks last week. The Jerusalem Post reported that Palestinian civilians joined the Hamas terrorists in carrying out the attacks.

“I don’t know what Biden’s gonna do, but we cannot accept people from Gaza into this country as refugees,” DeSantis told supporters at a rally in Iowa on Saturday. “I am not going to do that. If you look at how they behave, not all of them are Hamas, but they are all anti-Semitic. None of them believe in Israel’s right to exist.”

DeSantis noted that “none of the Arab states are willing to take any of them” and that those countries are the ones that should ultimately be responsible for helping Palestinian Arabs.

Ocasio-Cortez joined CNN on Monday night where she urged that Israel not respond strongly to the atrocities, which also injured 3,000+ Israelis and resulted in hundreds of kidnappings.

She said that Arab nations not wanting to accept Palestinian refugees “does not abdicate the United States from our historic role that we have played in the world of accepting refugees and allowing people to restart their lives here.”

“And I also want to address something very specific about what Governor DeSantis said when he said, ‘all Gazans are anti-Semitic,'” she continued. “How incredibly destructive and dangerous that rhetoric is.”

She said that his remarks were “reckless and no leader in the United States of America should be amplifying a message like that.”

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AOC: I also want to address something very specific about what DeSantis said when he said, “all gazans are antisemitic.” How incredibly destructive and dangerous that rhetoric is… pic.twitter.com/KQ4HeBWEYa

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Canadian politician Pierre Poilievre casually rebuffed a left-leaning reporter — while eating an apple — during a recent exchange that has since gone viral.

Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the Official Opposition since 2022, is currently running to serve as prime minister — and he made it clear that he was not going to allow reporters to set the narrative without a fight.

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Pierre Poilievre casually smacks down a left wing journalist while munching on an apple. pic.twitter.com/FeAcjCncvw

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“On the topic, I mean, in terms of your sort of strategy currently, you’re obviously taking the populist pathway …” the reporter began.

“What does that mean?” Poilievre asked around a mouthful of his apple.

“Well, appealing to people’s more emotional levels, I would guess,” the reporter replied with a laugh. “I mean …”

“What do you mean by that?” Poilievre pressed.

“Certainly you tap, certainly you tap very strong ideological language quite frequently —”

“Like what?” Poilievre asked between bites.

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“Uhh, left-wing, you know, this and that, right-wing, you know, that type of —” the reporter appeared to be caught off guard by the question.

“I almost never talk about — I never really talk about left or right, I don’t really believe in that,” Poilievre stated.

“Okay, a lot of people would say that you’re simply taking a page out of the Donald Trump book —” the reporter tried a different tack.

“A lot of people — like which people would say that?” Poilievre asked, taking another bite.

“Well, I’m sure a great many Canadians, but —” the reporter tried to continue, laughing uncomfortably.

“Like who?” Poilievre was insistent.

“I don’t know who, but —” the reporter protested.

“Well, you’re the one who asked the question,” Poilievre pointed out. “So you must know somebody.”

“Okay,” the reporter laughed again, trying to salvage the point. “I’m sure there’s some out there, but anyway, the point of this question is, why should Canadians trust you with their vote given not just the sort of ideological inclination in terms of taking the page out of Donald Trump’s book, but also …”

Poilievre pushed back again, asking, “What are you talking about? What page? What page? Can you give me a page? Give me the page. You keep saying that —”

“In terms of turning things quite dramatically in terms of Trudeau and the left-wing and all of this, I mean, you make quite a — you know — it’s quite a play that you make on it, so —” the reporter appeared to struggle to find his question.

“I’m not sure — I don’t know what your question is,” Poilievre replied, appearing confused.

“Then forget that,” the reporter gave up, opting to strip the question down to its simplest form: “Why should Canadians trust you with their vote?”

Poilievre delivered a simple answer: “Common sense. Common sense. For a change, we’re going to make common sense common in this country. We don’t have any common sense in the current government.”

Poilievre went on to turn his attention to current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, explaining why he believed the liberals had failed at their chance to govern.