“From Palestine to NYC. Globalize the Intifada,” was the message on a pro-Palestinian group’s Instagram post that details the locations in New York City of Jewish groups with “blood on their hands.”
The map stated that the Jewish organizations indicated were zones of “direct action.”
Within Our Lifetime urged its 121,000 followers to “Know Your Enemy.” This not-very-subtle effort to incite violence against Jews caught the attention of the NYPD and drew an outraged response from politicians and ordinary citizens.
“Each of the sites on this map is tied to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the settler-colonization of Palestine. They reflect a network of dispossession, policing, prisons, surveillance, counterinsurgency, war, destruction, imperialism, and militarization across the globe, with the mass media complex which manufactures consent for genocide acting as tools of the oppressor. These sites are also multi-purpose assets for some of the system’s most powerful perpetrators of violence. May this map serve as a call for every struggle to act in their own interest. As we do so, we uplift one another’s struggles and free Palestine from the river to the…
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