Activities

• In February 2025, PYM and Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), hosted a “teach-in and fundraiser” under the banner of “The first Intifada and Mass Organizing.” According to the event description, “The First Intifada (1987-1993) stands as one of the most successful, sustained, and widespread uprisings in Palestinian history. Join CUAD and PYM this Saturday as we explore the conditions that sparked the First Intifada, the methods employed to sustain the revolution, and the lessons we can draw from this historic uprising.”
• In January 2025, following the release of Palestinian terrorists in exchange for Israeli hostages, PYM posted: “The Palestinian struggle yet again shows us that Palestinian people will never wait for the occupier to grant them freedom but will instead continue to forcefully reclaim it by any means necessary” (emphasis added). 
  • On February 3, 2025, PYM made an additional post claiming, “their freedom is not a gift…it is a triumph wrenched from the grip of the oppressor… imprisonment has been wielded as a weapon of Zionist colonialism… liberation is inevitable.”
• In April 2024, following Iran’s missile and drone attack on Israel, PYM was a signatory on a statement titled, “No war on Iran, stand with resistance.” The statement “firmly support[ed] Iran’s right to defend itself against Zionist aggression.”
• On October 7, 2023, in the aftermath of the brutal Hamas atrocities, PYM published a statement accompanied by a photo of Palestinians celebrating on an IDF jeep in the Gaza Strip with the caption, “Palestine lives! The resistance is alive!.” According to the statement, “the resistance in Gaza stormed the illegitimate border fence, reentering 1948 Palestine for the first time in many of our lives…lives…We continue to stand by our people in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine in their legitimate resistance against the occupiers. In the name of our shaheeds, the struggle for freedom and return continues.”
• In May 2023, PYM was meant to host an art exhibit at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in Dallas titled “75 Years of Resistance. 75 Years of Glory.” Following criticism, the library canceled the event.
• In December 2022, PYM co-sponsored a webinar titled “Fighting IHRA & Why we Must Fight Antisemitism.” The webinar discussed how “Instead of targeting the primary sources of antisemitism in our society (far-right, Neo-Nazi movements), IHRA is being used as a shield to protect the state of Israel from being criticized for its treatment of Palestinians.”
  • The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, adopted by nearly 30 countries and counting, represents the international consensus definition of antisemitism, as well as how to distinguish between legitimate criticism of Israel and antisemitism. An example of the latter includes denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
• In August 2022, Instagram suspended PYM’s account due to violating “community guidelines on dangerous individuals and organizations.”
• In April 2022, PYM co-hosted a rally in New York City with Samidoun and Within Our Lifetime “to support Palestinian resistance and liberation “by any means necessary.” The groups refused to speak with a journalist from The New York Jewish Week, calling the publication part of the “Zionist media.” 
• In October 2021, PYM participated in a campaign titled “No Tech for Apartheid,” calling on Google and Amazon to “end all ties with Israeli apartheid and cut the Project Nimbus contract.” According to the campaign, “Technology should be used to bring people together, not enable apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler-colonialism.”

Demonstrations

• Since Hamas’ October 7th massacre, PYM has been organizing demonstrations, rallies, and student encampments across the United States and Canada, accusing Israel of “genocide.” 
• In a June 2024 interview, PYM organizer Mohammed Nabulsi stated that “Our PYM chapters…support the movement in two principled ways. First is direct support, the provision of resources, political advice, strategic advice, logistical advice. Second…We’ve linked chapters to lawyers and businesses we’ve leaned on to help sustain the encampments.”
• In February 2025, PYM participated in a protest outside the White House demanding “the arrest of Netanyahu, the demise of all normalization deals, and end to all aid to israel (sic).”
• In January 2025, PYM was named as a defendant in a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia concerning the February 1, 2024 blockade of several intersections leading into Washington, D.C. According to the firm behind the suit, “Unlawful traffic blockades that trap innocent citizens in their cars are not a form of protest-they are acts of aggression. We are determined to hold accountable those who use intimidation and obstruction to push their agenda, and we will fight to protect the rights of Americans who were unjustly targeted by these disruptive, antisemitic actions.”
• PYM leads a campaign against Danish shipping company Maersk, “one of the world’s largest shipping and logistics companies that directly ships military cargo that facilitate Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.This is a strategy for an actual arms embargo, A People’s Arms Embargo. We’re not waiting for a decision from the top to stop the flow of weapons to Israel, but we are demanding from the bottom. The people say: if you don’t do it, WE WILL.”
  • In March 2025, PYM claimed to have gathered around 1,000 activists from across Europe in Coopenhagen for workshops to “Cut Ties With Genocide,” aiming to “sharpen strategies to confront and isolate Zionism” culminating with a blockade of Maersk headquarters on March 3rd. PYM claims it was the “biggest gathering of international activists local organizers in Copenhagen have seen since the UN Climate Summit in 2009.”
• In October 2024, PYM organized a march in California calling for a “total arms embargo against Israel.” At the march, a PYM activist claimed, “Our people will never submit to the tyranny of Zionism. We will rise in our demand of our full liberation… and refuse to die quietly in the face of a 17-year-old siege…We know liberation is imminent and return is inevitable.”
• In July 2024, PYM was a co-organizer for a protest that featured Hamas and Hezbollah flags, and one protestor who held a sign that read, “Stand with Hamas.”
• On June 23, 2024, PYM and CODEPINK, organized a protest in Los Angeles targeting an event outside a synagogue. Protestors were recorded “shoving, punching, and screaming at those attempting to defend the synagogue… a Jewish woman was shoved to the ground and stomped on by pro-Palestinian activists.”
  • In July 2024, one of the event attendees filed a lawsuit against PYM, CODEPINK, and PYM’s fiscal sponsor Honor the Earth, claiming that protestors violated “First Amendment rights by preventing him from entering his place of worship” and that “protesters hurled insults such as “Nazi,” and “baby murderer” at him.” The U.S. Department of Justice has filed (March 3, 2025) a “statement of interest”on behalf of the plaintiff.
• According to a May 2024 article from CBC, “at McGill, where the first Canadian campus encampment was formed, the official student groups Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights McGill and Concordia are supported by the Montreal chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement.”
• In February 2024, PYM organized a rally to “End U.S. Funded War Crimes.”
• In February 2024,  PYM organized a protest against Boeing in Seattle, alleging that the company is  a “genocide profiter” and produced weapons that are “decimating Gaza and terrorizing Palestine.”
• On October 17, 2023, PYM organized a demonstration in front of the White House, with banners reading “End the Palestinian Holocaust” and “Stop financing the ethnic cleansing.”

Support for Terrorism

• According to a July 2024 report by the Israeli Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, PYM has “close ties with the Popular Front and its affiliates, as well as with the SJP organization linked to Hamas.”
• PYM offers an annual scholarship named after the former spokesperson of the Popular Front, Ghassan Kanafani, and in February 2025, the PYM NY chapter hosted a “reading group” of his short stories. Ghassan Kanafani was a leading PFLP member who participated in the Lod Airport massacre in 1972.
• On June 28, 2024, PYM called to “FREE KHALIDA.” Jarrar was arrested in Israel for “involvement in terror activity” in 2019 and again in December 2023. According to Israeli security forces, she has “emerged as the head of the PFLP in the West Bank and responsible for all the organization’s activities.” 
  • In January 2025, Jarrar was released under the agreement that freed Israeli hostages in Gaza. On January 21, 2025, PYM celebrated her release.
• In October 2023, in the aftermath of the brutal Hamas attack on October 7, PYM tweeted, “WHEN PEOPLE ARE OCCUPIED, RESISTANCE IS JUSTIFIED.”
• In October 2023, PYM released a “reading list” titled “Our History of Popular Resistance: Palestine Reading List.” The list included several articles by members of the PFLP terror group and several that openly support armed violence.
• In June 2023, PYM called for “the immediate release of Walid Daqqah.” Daqqa, a member of the PFLP, was sentenced in 1987 to life in prison for the kidnapping and murder of Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam.
• In January 2023, following an IDF counterterror operation in Jenin, during which nine Palestinians – eight of whom were armed members of Islamic Jihad and other organizations – were killed, PYM wrote,  “The PYM salutes the nine Palestinians martyred in Jenin yesterday during the occupation’s invasion of Jenin Refugee Camp, the largest massacre in Jenin since 2002 during the Second Intifada. We stand with our people in the camps, and affirm the right of the occupied to resist the colonizer by any means necessary. For every soul taken from us, our people’s determination to defeat the occupation only grows. Glory to all our martyrs!”
• In November 2022, PYM tweeted in support of Fatima Bernawi, claiming her “contributions to the struggle are innumerable, and she will forever be revered by the Palestinian nation.” In October 1967, Bernawi and other terrorists had attempted to bomb the Zion Cinema in downtown Jerusalem.
• In October 2022, PYM tweeted a memorial notice for Oday al-Tamimi, writing, “May Oday al-Tamimi rest in power. Glory to all of Palestine’s martyrs!” Al-Tamimi was responsible for the killing of 18-year-old Israeli soldier Noa Lazar when he opened fire at a checkpoint. He also critically injured a 30-year-old security guard.
• In August 2022, PYM tweeted, “The blood of the martyrs is the price paid for Palestine’s liberation,” listing the names of “martyrs” killed during the 2022 Gaza conflict. The list includes both Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists and civilians as well as those killed in PIJ misfired missile strikes. These include PIJ leader Taysir Jabari and PIJ militants Yusuf Saam Qadoum, Mohammed Ahma Abdelfatteh al-Madhoun, Fadel Mustafa Zareb, Mohammed Hassan al-Bayouk, Salma Maharib Abed, Taysir Mahmoud al-Jabari.

Staff

• Mohammed Nabulsi
  • In May 2024, Nabulsi, a leading organizer in PYM, gave the opening remarks at the People’s Conference for Palestine. He called to “liberate every inch of Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea” and to “craft a path forward that truly brings the Zionist state and its military and its imperialist backers to their knees.” According to a news report, Nabulsi also led “participants in chants calling for intifada and praising Hezbollah and Houthi maritime terrorism.”
  • In January 2023, Nabulsi, a leading organizer in PYM, led protestors at an anti-Israel rally in Texas in the chant, “There is only one solution, intifada revolution! … From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!”
  • In August 2018, Nabulsi tweeted a picture showing young boys wearing keffiyehs and carrying assault rifles, writing “How I will raise my children.”
  • In July 2018, Nabulsi shared a tweet from the Hamas Twitter account: writing, “The resistance is prepared, capable, & moving forward in balancing this equation, as a guarantee, no matter the sacrifices. For our Palestinian people, & the courageous resistance behind them, will exercise all of their might to secure their rights & break the siege on Gaza.”
  • In August 2015, Nabulsi published or posted: “BDS 10 Years On: Anti-Colonial Demands in a Liberal Framework,” calling for BDS activists to “look to and support Palestinian resistance groups and civil organizations that remain steadfast…such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hamas and Palestine Islamic Jihad.”
  • In 2015, while serving as a student government law representative at UT Austin, Nabulsi co-authored a divestment resolution that called on the UT System Investment Management Company to pull investments from five corporations that “facilitate in the oppression of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel.”  
• Yara Shoufani
  • Shoufani, PYM media advisor, also serves as the Executive Director of the Canadian Friends of Sabeel.
  • In October 2023, Shoufani claimed, “We’re not going to abandon our right to resist, or sorry, our right to return to our homeland. And we are not going to choose the path of normalization and the path of capitulation that says that we must plead with our occupiers and plead with imperialists in order to give us our land back, but rather that we support the path that our people have chosen, which is the revolutionary path of resistance and national liberation.”
  • In April 2015, Shoufani posted on Facebook justifying violence, claiming, “When we throw rocks, when we throw rockets, when we scream, we are told to stop being violent. ‘Violence is not the answer, you must engage in dialogue.’…I’m tired of talking about how violence is wrong and how burning property and looting is not going to help.” 
• Shatha Mahmoud
  • On October 11, 2023, PYM member Mahmoud claimed that “we need to situate the root cause of the violence. We need to talk about where did it start from and the fact that this past 48 hours is not the beginning of it…but if you want to end the violence, we need to end the 75-year colonial occupation of Palestinians. We need to end their brutal blockade.”
  • In October 2021, Mahmoud shared a cartoon that depicted a man labeled “USA” being crushed into the ground by a foot labeled “3rd world.” Ayman commented, “manifesting one day inshallah.”
• Nadya Tannous
  • PYM organizer Nadya Tannous serves as deputy director of Honor the Earth, PYM’s fiscal sponsor.
  • In May 2024, Tannous, in a lecture at the People’s Conference for Palestine, claimed, “it is very clear that Palestine is the tip of the spear against anti-imperialism and against empire…And this panel y’all is talking about what is next. To strike at the heart of empire…together we fight our enemies, we can strengthen the movement that break imperialist alliances, like the one between the U.S. and Israel, and together we can win this.”
  • In November 2023, Tannous alleged, “the United States has no moral authority, it is rotten to the core. The wealth that has been accrued by this nation at the heart of the Western imperialist onslaught against Gaza comes from stolen land from Indigenous people and stolen wealth from enslaved Black people and from the continual deferral of justice for many people who live here.”
• Lina Assi
  • Assi, a community organizer with PYM, also serves as Advocacy Manager at Palestine Legal.
  • In August 2018, in response to Nabulsi’s tweet of a picture showing young boys wearing keffiyehs and carrying assault rifles, writing “How I will raise my children.” Assi responded, “11/10 parenting.”
  • In 2015, Assi dressed up as Leila Khaled for Halloween.
    • Khaled participated in armed hijackings of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970.
  • In 2014, Assi “helped to pass a historic BDS resolution at McMaster University that mobilized over 600 students. “
• In August 2021, PYM’s Montreal spokesperson Elias Ayoub tweeted, “Death to America is the first option on our table.”
• Loubna Qutami, PYM’s former international general coordinator, serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UCLA.