PAL-Awda NY/NJ

🚨🇵🇸 ALL OUT SAT. 05/16 BAY RIDGE PROTEST TO DISMANTLE THE GENOCIDAL ZIONIST ENTITY—FIGHT FOR LIBERATION & RETURN 🪧 PROTEST 🗓️ SAT 05/16 📍 72nd St & 5th Ave; BAY RIDGE 🕒 2:00 PM #Nakba78 In honor of the 78+ year long struggle for liberation of the Palestinian people, Pal-Awda will be in the streets of Bay Ridge protesting in honor of the freedom fighters & martyrs of Gaza & all of Palestine. “NAKBA” [meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic], which we commemorate on May 15, marks the ongoing genocide & ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians from historic Palestinian lands, which was well underway months before the settler colony declared “independence” on May 14, 1948. That year, zionist occupation forces & settler militias brutally murdered over 15,000 Palestinians & expelled 750,000+ Palestinians from their homes, destroying over 70% of Palestinian towns & villages, & stealing 78% of Palestinian land. For over 78 years, displaced Palestinians have demanded a “right of return” or “haq al awda,” while the zionist entity continues to escalate its project of ethnic cleansing, land grabs, & colonial expansion. WE DEMAND AN END TO THE OCCUPATION, full liberation, & the right of return for all Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, & around the world to their original lands and homes.

78 años de la Nakba Palestina 🇵🇸. PROTESTAS: Viernes 15 de mayo de 2026. 4:30 PM. Washington Square Park. Manhattan, NYC. Info en Inglés: x.com/i/status/20550… Sábado 16 de mayo de 2026. 2 PM. 5 Ave y 72 Street. Bay Ridge. Brooklyn. Info en Inglés: x.com/i/status/20550…

A year ago today. @columbia still employs the officers who brutalized me. Zero accountability.

It is literally illegal for a real estate event to be a Jewish only sale gathering. This isn’t Israel, we have anti discrimination laws. Mamdani doesn’t decide what’s a Jewish gathering, Jews do and most Jews would easily say it’s unacceptable for a synagogue to sell stolen goods.

This is an important video to watch if you want to know why so many New Yorkers are protesting outside of a synagogue. Don’t let the media narrative fool you- these people aren’t protesting regular Jewish prayers. They are protesting this:

@NoahHurowitz And here is @NoahHurowitz's article about the event for @theintercept theintercept.com/2026/05/05/zoh…

@NoahHurowitz Here's a deep dive into Karnei Shomron, one of the settlements being promoted at the real estate fair—and, despite what some people on this website may tell you, very much at the front lines of the systematic and violent explosion in settlement growth over the past few years.

Watch here--Inside a “Greater Israel” Real Estate Expo at an NYC Synagogue: Reporter @NoahHurowitz on how to steal Palestinian land from the comfort of your NYC synagogue. infinitejaz.com/p/inside-a-gre…

I spoke with @NoahHurowitz about what went down inside the Park East Synagogue real estate fair—including assurances that int'l law doesn’t matter, apartheid openly marketed as a security benefit, and a deeper dive into the specific settlements being promoted. Link in next tweet.

ALL OUT SATURDAY‼️

Synagogues that sell stolen Palestinian land should, of course, be protested mondoweiss.net/2026/05/synago… #Palestine #Israel

Israeli settlers attack peace activists in Ain Samia, near Kafr Malik, northeast Ramallah.

Israelis marked Jerusalem Day today, the annual Israeli nationalist celebration commemorating Israel’s 1967 capture and occupation of East Jerusalem, with far-right Israeli mobs rampaging through Jerusalem’s Old City, chanting “death to Arabs,” assaulting Palestinians, vandalizing shops in the Muslim Quarter, and targeting journalists while thousands of Israeli police largely stood by, according to Haaretz. Most Palestinian shopkeepers shut their stores fearing violence, but mobs of Israeli youths still roamed the alleys hunting for Palestinians, throwing bottles, smashing storefronts, spitting at residents, and attacking reporters documenting the scenes. Haaretz reporter Linda Dayan described being trapped by mobs alongside other journalists as police pushed reporters out instead of stopping the attacks. One Israeli teen reportedly told the journalist: “You need to die.” 🎥 Video circulating on Palestinian accounts:

Abunaser Abdullah is part of our CUNY community. He is facing a tough recovery after a violent attack in NYC. He deserves justice. His family needs help with medical bills and lost income. Please consider supporting him during this difficult time. gofund.me/9c0ce62d2

4/4

3/4

🧵Stop the Sale of Stolen Palestinian Land: Our Movement Remains Steadfast On Monday, PAL-Awda NY/NJ and hundreds of our community members rallied in Brooklyn to protest the "Great Israeli Real Estate Event of 2026," just one week after we mobilized to protest and disrupt its Manhattan iteration. Once again, police and Zionist agitators, emboldened by our elected officials, violently protected an event that violated local, federal and international law, and brutalized New Yorkers of conscience. Our community was confronted by the violent, racist face of Zionism as it exists in our neighborhoods: we were mobbed by hundreds of Zionist counter protesters who attacked our community members with pepper spray, eggs, and other objects and hurled death threats. The agitators also physically harassed Neturei Karta rabbis, and used anti-Black, homophobic, and Islamophobic slurs against protesters. The "Great Israeli Real Estate Event," run by Israeli real estate companies Home in Israel, Emanuel Group, and International Marketing and Promotion, alongside Israeli Leumi Bank, provides prospective settlers with financial consultation to buy property in "Anglo neighborhoods" built on stolen Palestinian land. The event website openly promotes real estate in illegal settlements, such as the Gush Etzion settlement in the occupied West Bank. Zionist agencies chose to host their illegal event in Young Israel of Midwood, following a pattern of Zionist agencies hiding illegal activities inside houses of worship, schools, and homes, to avoid accountability. The criteria used to vet attendees for the event violate the Fair Housing Act and federal anti-discrimination laws. Hundreds of NYPD officers once again froze the blocks surrounding the land sale, barricaded protesters, and protected Zionist agitators. The tacit collaboration between the NYPD and Zionist agitators comes as no surprise to us. The NYPD, with the encouragement of our elected officials, has consistently demonstrated its eagerness to aggress New Yorkers of conscience and protect the illegal practice of Zionist land theft occurring within our neighborhoods. As we protest, state-level elected officials are debating a series of unconstitutional anti-protest "buffer zones" in response to community protests against the sale of stolen of Palestinian land. Similar bills have been debated at the city level, leading to the passage of intro 1B, which expanded the NYPD's power to create unprecedented no-protest zones surrounding houses of worship. Ironically, the NYPD barricaded us in front of other synagogues in the neighborhood, only directly blocking us from the land sale, and keeping our protest at a 250-foot distance, out of sight and sound from the event. The NYPD's so-called "frozen zones" have little to do with "protecting" houses of worship, and everything to do with protecting the illegal sale of Palestinian land. PAL-Awda and our community has been pushing for accountability for years. In March 2024, the PAL Law Commission, a group of Palestinian lawyers and advocates, submitted an official demand letter to the Attorney General of New York, calling for audit and investigations of these illegal events, which violate New York Property Law, New York Human Rights Law, state and federal real estate and housing laws and international laws. We are still awaiting a response. Yesterday, hundreds of New Yorkers took to the streets chanting, "Mayor Mamdani take a stand, stop the sale of stolen land." Once again, we underscore our demands to those in power: the Mamdani administration must advance meaningful calls to the Attorney General to investigate, audit and stop illegal Palestinian land sales; remove the tax exempt status of religious institutions and schools hosting these events; and drop Jessica Tisch as Police Commissioner and disband the SRG, to curb the NYPD's discriminatory targeting of our community.... 1/4

Once again Mamdani’s NYPD kept protestors 250 feet away, out of sight and sound, from the zionist real estate event selling stolen Palestinian land. Who needs a buffer zone bill when you have this mayor. Protestors were trapped behind rows of barricades and hundreds of police officers. Mamdani and the NYPD working together to facilitate ethnic cleansing in Palestine

Neither of these protests would have happened had these venues not chosen to host illegal sales of stolen Palestinian land. The people of New York will not stand by while the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people is aided and abetted by institutions in our own city.