Fact check: Robert De Niro is NOT shouting at pro-Palestinian protesters in viral video

A video of actor Robert De Niro shouting, “This is not a movie! This is real!” was taken out of context and shared to social media to make it look like he was yelling at pro-Palestine protesters. In reality, DeNiro was acting for a TV series, which was being filmed in New York City. DeNiro’s publicist, Stan Rosenfield, said he was simply rehearsing lines from the script of “Zero Day”.

But some pro-Israel accounts took the video and added captions to it (as seen in the above video) that made it seem as if DeNiro was addressing some pro-Palestine protesters off-camera.

“That’s dangerous and they say they’re gonna do it again! Again! You don’t want that. You don’t want that. None of us want that. C’mon. Let’s all get serious,” De Niro says in the video. It was edited to make it seem as if he was referring to the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7.

Rosenfield explained that the actor was just doing his job - acting. “Zero Day” is a political conspiracy thriller and De Niro plays a former U.S. president. The video, taken out of context, went viral and was shared by several pro-Israel accounts, and then quickly taken down. Even an Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, shared the video with a headline suggesting that De Niro was confronting protesters. They later removed the video and article and issued a statement saying that the piece “was inadequately vetted” and “did not meet our editorial standards”.