AOC's Ivy League warmup act leads democratic socialists in notorious anti-Israel chant

The Cornell University Young Democratic Socialists of America hosted the event for AOC, which her campaign labeled as a "Students vs. Billionaires" town hall. The group's president, Mina Petrova, and co-Chair Zoe Reisman led the crowd of roughly 2,000 people in chanting "from the river to the sea," after declaring, "long live the student intifada."

"Cornell is fundamentally a capitalist institution that prioritizes billionaires and profit over students and community and is controlled by CEO trustees that are profiting off of genocide and war," Petrova told the crowd at one point, triggering applause.

"Here we stand as anti-imperialists and believe that nobody is disposable. We have a responsibility to stand in solidarity with oppressed peoples everywhere," Reisman said. "Student activism is not dead. Long live student resistance, and long live the student intifada."

YDSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

AOC made no apologies when she eventually took the stage, joining her young hosts in accusing Cornell of censorship.

"Whether it's the issue about Palestine or many others, whether it's about people trying to fire those who are forming a union in their workplace, whether it's people trying to speak up about a number of different issues, we have to respond to that first crackdown," she said.

"When we come out in numbers, they cannot take us all," she added.

The figures appear to reinforce a key element in the GOP midterm playbook, which aims to turn what's normally a referendum on the party in power into a choice election.

Fox News' Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.