Pro-Palestinian Group Calls for ‘Intifada’ in NYC, Tells Supporters to ‘Find a Target’ and ‘Flood’ City By Zach Kessel
The pro-Palestinian activist group Within Our Lifetime (WOL) plans to hold a “Palestine is Everywhere” event in New York City from March 27 to 30, the organization announced, advertised in a flyer calling for “autonomous action” and “global intifada.”
The flyer, which WOL shared on its X page, directs the group’s supporters to “get a group together,” “find a target,” and “take action to defend Palestine.” WOL is urging its followers to “flood all of New York City” by taking “autonomous actions,” which include “de-occupations, assemblies and gatherings, public testimonies, roving shutdowns, sit-ins and slow downs, painting walls, wheatpastings, & other happenings.”
In a thread posted on X, WOL explained that “NYC offers many sites of engagement where powers of oppression and domination reside, and allows for friends, family, students, communities, organizations to act creatively and with autonomy.”
WOL is using the encrypted messaging app Telegram to plan the late-March event. The group’s channel has 730 members and includes messages encouraging group members to “refuse and resist so something else can emerge until all our lands are free.”
“On Land day we affirm our interconnected struggles to defend Palestine and protect our planet from genocide and extraction everywhere,” the group’s organizer, using the name “Palestine is everywhere,” wrote.
WOL has carried out disruptions in New York in the past, including attempting to shut down the John F. Kennedy International Airport and successfully blocking traffic at the Manhattan entrance to the Holland Tunnel and the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg Bridges.
The organization was active during the holiday season, barging in on the Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center and protesting at Grand Central Station on Christmas Day. WOL was also behind the demonstration outside the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a hospital that houses a pediatric center as well as a cancer treatment facility.
At that particular protest, WOL leader Nerdeen Kiswani said “make sure they hear you, they’re in the windows” as her followers shouted “shame” toward the hospital.
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