On January 29, 2023, two days after several Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants were killed in clashes with Israeli forces in Jenin, the American pro-Palestine organization Within Our Lifetime organized a rally in Brooklyn in honor of the “martyrs” of Jenin. At the rally, the organization’s leader Nerdeen Kiswani said that you cannot support Palestinians without supporting their right self-defense. She added: “We will never stop fighting for Palestine until every single inch of our land is free!” Laila Boutros from the NY/NJ branch of the Samidoun organization, which was founded by PFLP members and is considered a terrorist organization by Israel, saluted the Palestinian “resistance organizations” and “their steadfast and valiant fight to avenge all Palestinian martyrs and reclaim Palestine from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea.”
One rally participant wore a sweatshirt emblazoned with a photo of Palestinian terrorist Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi in full combat gear and brandishing weapons, with the quote: “I love my mother and I have been martyred.” Al-Nabulsi was killed in a firefight with Israeli security forces in August 2022. The protesters also chanted “Globalize the Intifada!” and “We don’t want no two states, we want all of it!” The footage of the rally was posted to various online sources, including Christopher Leon Johnson on YouTube, Within Our lifetime on Instagram, and Palestine Online on Twitter. …...more
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