{"id":2267654,"date":"2024-06-14T06:55:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T10:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wol-of-sound-following-the-money-and-activism-behind-anti-israel-days-of-rage\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T07:03:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:03:42","slug":"wol-of-sound-following-the-money-and-activism-behind-anti-israel-days-of-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wol-of-sound-following-the-money-and-activism-behind-anti-israel-days-of-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the Finances and Activism Behind Anti-Israel &#8216;Days of Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwol-of-sound-following-the-money-and-activism-behind-anti-israel-days-of-rage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2267654&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>This month in New York City, the anti-Israel group \u2062Within\u2063 Our Lifetime held a &#8220;Day\u200d of \u2062Rage,&#8221; where protesters\u200c chanted slogans supporting the Palestinian cause \u200band displayed flags of terrorist organizations. \u2062This\u2063 group had previously caused \u2064disruptions at the Brooklyn Museum, leading to\u200b a confrontation where\u2063 police had to intervene and make several arrests. The protesters, \u2063some of \u200cwhom were not affiliated with the targeted locations like Columbia and New \u2062York University, were also accused of physical\u2064 and verbal assaults. Antisemitic remarks and \u2063disruptive actions \u2063led university officials and the mayor to emphasize the severity and trained nature of the protests. The group has\u200b been active in \u2062escalating protests\u2064 on various public platforms and\u200b events throughout the city.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This month, pro-Palestinian protesters affiliated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>anti-Israel<\/a> group Within Our Lifetime shouted hateful slogans and waved flags of terrorist groups in a \u201cDay of Rage\u201d they organized in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLong live the intifada,\u201d the demonstrators shouted, according to one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-palestinian-mob-beats-up-jewish-men-in-los-angeles\/\" title=\"Pro-Palestinian Mob Beats Up Jewish Men in Los Angeles\">video account<\/a>. \u201cResistance is justified where people are occupied.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>(Thomas Fluharty for the Washington Examiner)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t the first time. On May 31, these agitators succeeded in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WOLPalestine\/status\/1796708091922202787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>\u201ctaking over\u201d<\/a> New York City\u2019s Brooklyn Museum. In videos WOL shared on X, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WOLPalestine\/status\/1796644080069525641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>hordes of protesters chanted<\/a> as they <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WOLPalestine\/status\/1796996282256384359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>swarmed the museum grounds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WOLPalestine\/status\/1796998906078757244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>crowded the doors<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/democracynow\/status\/1796664674856952289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>hung flags<\/a> from the institution\u2019s edifice. <\/p>\n<p>Later video shows WOL Chairwoman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WOLPalestine\/status\/1796991253122343068\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Nerdeen Kiswani standing<\/a> \u201cinside the de-occupied\u201d museum, shouting into a microphone, \u201cBrooklyn Museum, you can\u2019t hide. Divest from genocide!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WOLPalestine\/status\/1796708094673604753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>WOL claimed that<\/a> \u201cwithin an hour,\u201d the \u201cIsraeli-trained NYPD stormed the museum, targeting and violently arresting activists,\u201d including Kiswani. <\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/police-arrest-34-people-brooklyn-museum-protesters-occupy-building-rcna155032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>NBC News report<\/a> provides much-needed context to WOL\u2019s version of events. The Brooklyn Museum has said its employees were \u201cphysically and verbally assaulted and harassed\u201d by assembled protesters, who damaged art installations outside the museum. In total, the New York City Police Department said it arrested 34 protesters during the attempted takeover. Neither the Brooklyn Museum nor the NYPD responded to the <em>Washington Examiner\u2019s<\/em> request for further details.<\/p>\n<p>WOL has used a string of protests to increase chaos and discord throughout New York City in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Hamas attack<\/a> on Israel. Its occupation of the Brooklyn Museum appears to indicate increased bravado, possibly emboldened by its successes in stoking hate at pro-Palestinian encampments in universities throughout New York City starting in mid-April. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities long noted that encampment protests were being fueled by external actors. The NYPD <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/columbia-ccny-protesters-arrested-quarter-of-them-not-affiliated-with-schools\/14754563\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>told reporters<\/a> that of the 112 people taken into custody at Columbia University on the evening of April 30, only 80 were affiliated with the school. At City College of New York, 170 were arrested on April 30, with only 68 protesters affiliated with the school. At New York University, 133 protesters were arrested at an April 22 protest. Only 65 were \u201ccurrent NYU students, faculty, or staff.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Anti-Israel demonstrators associated with the \u2018Within Our Lifetime\u2019 protest group rally in front of the Brooklyn Museum on May 31 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith \/ Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New York City Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/eric-adams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Eric Adams<\/a> announced at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/office-of-the-mayor\/news\/337-24\/transcript-mayor-eric-adams-briefs-media-recent-protests-columbia-university-nypd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>May 1 press conference<\/a> that he and the NYPD recognized it was \u201cmore than a peaceful protest\u201d on New York City campuses. \u201cWe saw evidence of training. We saw a shift in tactics that were being used,\u201d he explained. <\/p>\n<p>While leaders have not named the entities that helped to foster the frenzy on New York City campuses, antisemitism watchdog Canary Mission provided the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> with an extensive dossier on WOL\u2019s involvement in encampments at Columbia, CCNY, the New School, the Fashion Institute of Technology, NYU, and Fordham University. In addition to the group\u2019s public statement <a href=\"https:\/\/wolpalestine.com\/encampments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>calling for the escalation<\/a> of encampment protests and its direction of protesters to various encampment sites through its <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>public Telegram account<\/a>, WOL\u2019s role as a key agitator increasing the anti-Israel vitriol on campuses is clear. <\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> has focused this report on WOL\u2019s activities on dates when arrests of nonstudent agitators are known to have occurred. They demonstrate WOL urging confrontations with police, demanding escalation of protests, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-and-senate-dems-give-rashida-tlaib-platform-for-anti-semitic-event-mourning-israels-creation-after-mccarthy-thwarts-plans\/\" title=\"Schumer and Senate Dems support Tlaib's anti-Semitic event mourning Israel's creation, despite McCarthy's interference.\">spreading antisemitic hate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>April 22 at NYU Gould Plaza <\/h2>\n<p>WOL promoted the encampment at NYU\u2019s Gould Plaza, where 65 students and faculty and 68 nonstudent activists would later be arrested by the NYPD. Its advocacy took place largely on Telegram, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roger-stone-announces-he-will-sue-those-who-arrested-him-and-put-him-in-front-of-a-kangaroo-court\/\" title=\"Roger Stone Announces He Will Sue Those Who Arrested Him and Put Him In Front of a Kangaroo Court\">social media site<\/a> where the group has about 4,820 subscribers. <\/p>\n<p>At 6 a.m., the group shared a post on the \u201cNYU Encampment Updates\u201d Telegram account saying the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>occupation<\/a> of Gould Plaza had taken place two hours earlier. <\/p>\n<p>At 10 a.m., WOL shared photos from within the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>encampment<\/a>, where a tent said \u201cFree Palestine\u201d and signage accused NYU of having \u201cblood on its hands.\u201d An hour later, the group <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>issued a call<\/a> to \u201cflood New York University for Gaza\u201d at 7 p.m., stating that \u201cstudents have heeded the call to escalate\u201d and urging others to \u201cjoin our solidarity rally at Gould Plaza \u2026 and be ready to mobilize all day to defend the encampment.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>New York University Gould Plaza. (Fatih Aktas\/Anadolu via Getty Images; Andrew Lichtenstein\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just after 5 p.m., a man resembling <a href=\"https:\/\/canarymission.org\/individual\/Abdullah_Akl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>WOL member Abdullah Akl<\/a> was filmed inside <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/233\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Gould Plaza chanting<\/a>, \u201cThere is only one solution: intifada revolution. We will free Palestine within our lifetime.\u201d The intifada were two periods of Palestinian-led terrorist attacks against Israelis in which around 1,000 were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/backgrounder\/slogan-globalize-intifada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>killed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At 5:30 p.m., the group demanded that the NYPD \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>back down<\/a>\u201d against the encampment. Two hours later, at 7:30 p.m., Kiswani was <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/237\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-of-north-texas-protesters-chant-fk-you-fascist-at-father-who-lost-custody-of-transgender-child\/\" title=\"U. of North Texas Protesters Chant 'F**k You, Fascist' at Father Who Lost Custody of Transgender Child\">filmed chanting<\/a><\/a>, \u201cIf we don\u2019t get no justice, then they don\u2019t get no peace,\u201d in the center of Gould Plaza. WOL <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>reported the appearance<\/a> of NYPD buses at Gould Plaza by 8 p.m. About 40 minutes later, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>WOL said<\/a> that NYU faculty had been arrested and soon after <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>encouraged protesters<\/a> to \u201ccome block the buses\u201d of arrested faculty and protesters.<\/p>\n<p>WOL <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>led a march<\/a> to 1 Police Plaza, NYPD headquarters, \u201cto support\u201d those who were arrested. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Protesters took up<\/a> what appears to be the entirety of Grand Street and Broadway, shouting, \u201cRevolution.\u201d As they arrived <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>at 1 Police Plaza<\/a> shortly before 10 p.m., they shouted, \u201cIntifada, intifada, long live the intifada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On May 1, NYU President Linda G. Mills <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/about\/leadership-university-administration\/office-of-the-president\/comms\/recent-events-on-campus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>referenced<\/a> the Gould Plaza protest in a statement to the school community. \u201cSocial media was used to summon hundreds of people to our campus, including people who did not have permission to be at NYU and who we believed significantly threatened our community,\u201d Mills said. In the aftermath of the event, she said she had been personally threatened, a building where she and other faculty members live with their families had been defaced with red paint, and NYU had faced two bomb threats.<\/p>\n<h2>The encampment escalation missive<\/h2>\n<p>On April 27, WOL released an assessment <a href=\"https:\/\/wolpalestine.com\/encampments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>on the encampments<\/a> that contained concerning statements about its intention to escalate protests. \u201cThe movement trips over itself to provide endless trainings \u2026 on de-escalation tactics,\u201d WOL wrote. \u201cWe can choose to prioritize de-escalation trainings, or we can choose to prioritize escalation trainings.\u201d The group went to suggest that it can \u201clearn to build effective barricades, how to link arms most effectively to resist police attacks, or what type of expanding foam works best on the kind of doorknobs present in our universities.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>The City College of New York and Columbia University (AP Photos\/Julius Motal; Stefan Jeremiah)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Through its encampment statement, the anti-Israel group defined its \u201cenemies.\u201d Chief among them are members of the NYPD, a \u201cfunctionary of U.S. imperialism\u201d that WOL alleges is analogous with the Israel Defense Forces and the Ku Klux Klan. It also named \u201copportunists\u201d such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as enemies of the movement. WOL decried how Ocasio-Cortez posted \u201cin support of the encampments while demonizing \u2018outside agitator\u2019 and condemning our resistance fighters [terrorist group Hamas and its terrorist affiliates] in Palestine.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging that many leaders were already blaming outside influencers for the tenor of campus protests, WOL said it \u201creject[s] the so-called \u2018outside agitator\u2019 line\u201d and alleged that \u201cthe universities are ours for the taking,\u201d seemingly confirming its involvement in shaping encampment protests. <\/p>\n<h2>CCNY and Columbia University<\/h2>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>April 22<\/a>, WOL encouraged followers to \u201cmobilize, defend, and support\u201d encampments at Columbia, the New School, and NYU. By <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>April 29<\/a>, the anti-Israel group was <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>urging its followers<\/a> on Telegram to take part in an \u201cEmergency Action\u201d to \u201cflood the encampments\u201d at CCNY, Columbia, FIT, the New School, and NYU on April 30.<\/p>\n<p>Around 12:30 a.m. on April 30, the group encouraged its members to <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>go \u201call out\u201d<\/a> to Columbia to \u201cdefend the encampment.\u201d Fifteen minutes later, it shared a video from the \u201cPopular University 4 Gaza\u201d Telegram account of crowds outside Hamilton Hall. The post <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>proclaimed that<\/a> \u201cstudents have taken Hamilton building.\u201d Students yelled, \u201cFrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,\u201d a chant understood by many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/backgrounder\/slogan-river-sea-palestine-will-be-free?gad_source=1&#038;gclid=Cj0KCQjw6PGxBhCVARIsAIumnWYOQnsNjH7SUX6e8nVnLKOvO7qP80f2zkHMIhLcMkn1k5NM91VMYEMaAn1OEALw_wcB&#038;gclsrc=aw.ds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>to call for<\/a> the annihilation of the state of Israel.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Students at the City College of New York protest the Israel-Hamas war on the campus in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo\/Jake Offenhartz)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By 2 a.m., WOL shared its own video from Hamilton Hall, now adorned with a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>flag reading<\/a>, \u201cINTIFADA.\u201d In the background, demonstrators screamed, \u201cThere is only one solution: intifada revolution.\u201d \u201cIf we force open the gates of the university,\u201d WOL proclaimed <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>moments later<\/a>, \u201cunderstand we have a common enemy and build our respective capacities to fight them on and off the campus \u2014 the universities are ours for the taking.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>At 3:30 p.m., WOL members began a march through New York City encampments, starting with NYU, where Kiswani <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>proclaimed<\/a>, \u201cLong live the intifada.\u201d The group arrived at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>the New School<\/a> at about 4:25 p.m., where its members chanted, \u201cOver 40,000 dead, New School, your hands are red.\u201d (At this date, even the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, whose data have been questioned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/biden-admin-should-check-hamas-ministry-health-death-stats-expert-warns?intcmp=tw_fnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>multiple researchers<\/a>, reported about 34,000 dead.)<\/p>\n<p>By 4:50 p.m., WOL was on the move again, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/322\">proclaiming<\/a> that the \u201cFIT encampment welcomes WOL\u201d around 10 minutes later. At 5:22 p.m., WOL members made their way to Columbia, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>using the subway<\/a> system and <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/324\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>blaring an air horn<\/a> inside the Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station.<\/p>\n<p>The group arrived at Columbia University on West 116th Street and Broadway at 6:20 p.m., once again <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>echoing the call<\/a> for \u201conly one solution: intifada revolution.\u201d By the time it left the university at nearly 7 p.m., the WOL protesters, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/canarymission.org\/individual\/Fatima_Mohammed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>WOL member Fatima Mohammed<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>were chanting<\/a>, \u201cColumbia, your hands are red.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>A Pro-Palestinian rally including Within Our Lifetime, a prominent activist group, was met with an Israeli counter protest in New York City on June 10. (Jonathan Fernandes \/ Sipa via AP Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>En route to CCNY, the protesters took over <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>an entire street<\/a> around Broadway and West 133rd Street. The protesters appeared to be stuck outside the gates of the school when they <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/331\">arrived at CCNY<\/a> at about 7:20 p.m. They promptly <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/332\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>chanted at police<\/a> personnel to \u201cmove cops, get out the way. We know you\u2019re Israeli trained.\u201d Ten minutes later, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Akl shouted<\/a>, \u201cIt is time to escalate.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>At 8:08 p.m., <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>WOL reported<\/a> that NYPD\u2019s Strategic Response Group had arrived at CCNY. \u201cMore cops arriving by the minute,\u201d the group told Telegram subscribers. \u201cWe need numbers to defend the encampment NOW!\u201d At 8:20 p.m., it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>shared video<\/a> from the \u201cCUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment\u201d Telegram account of protesters occupying a school building and students who were \u201cpepper-sprayed by violent cops.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>At 9:01 p.m., WOL shared its own video, apparently from within campus, of <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>the Palestinian flag<\/a> on the campus flagpole. \u201cThe American flag drenched in the blood of over 40,000 Palestinians is no longer flying at CCNY,\u201d it reported. At just before 12 a.m., WOL <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>told subscribers<\/a> to \u201cflood CCNY for Gaza\u201d because the \u201cNYPD is going to sweep\u201d the encampment.<\/p>\n<p>The following morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>WOL called for<\/a> \u201congoing jail support\u201d after the \u201cmass arrests\u201d at Columbia and CCNY. Protesters were told to \u201cmobilize NOW at 1 Police Plaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WOL held a press <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>conference that evening<\/a> about the \u201cNYPD assault on the Gaza solidarity encampments.\u201d At a rally an hour later, Akl <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>led<\/a> a chant for revolution, and <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mohammed shouted<\/a>, \u201cOur martyrs did not die in vain.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Leaders from both Columbia and CCNY also spoke out on May 1, sharing horrifying tales of the April 30 protests. Columbia University President Minouche Shafik <a href=\"https:\/\/president.columbia.edu\/news\/message-president-minouche-shafik-5-1-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>decried how<\/a> \u201cstudents and outside activists breaking Hamilton Hall doors, mistreating Public Safety officers and maintenance staff, and damaging property are acts of destruction, not political speech. Many students have also felt uncomfortable and unwelcome because of the disruption and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-says-kanyes-antisemitic-comments-arent-that-different-from-what-omar-tlaib-have-said\/\" title=\"Bill Maher Says Kanye\u2019s Antisemitic Comments Aren\u2019t That Different From What Omar &#038; Tlaib Have Said\">antisemitic comments made<\/a> by some individuals, especially in the protests that have persistently mobilized outside our gates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CCNY President Vincent Boudreau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccny.cuny.edu\/presidentsoffice\/blog\/presidents-statement-encampment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>told his campus<\/a> about the efforts that had caused the school to call in the NYPD. \u201cStudents inside the encampment began to warn us that outsiders among them were planning to take over a building,\u201d he explained. The campus \u201creceived word\u201d at about 7 p.m. that \u201chundreds of protesters were moving towards \u2026 campus from the south,\u201d with around 300 reaching the fence at 140th Street \u201cshortly thereafter.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Readers will recall that WOL protesters began marching toward CCNY at that time and arrived at 139th Street at about 7:20 p.m. WOL video from 8:08 p.m. appears to have been taken <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/WOLProtest\/335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>from inside campus<\/a> as the NYPD walked in through a gate.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Nerdeen Kiswani, co-founder and leader of Within Our Lifetime (WOL), speaks at a demonstration near Columbia University on Feb. 2 in New York City. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld \/ Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Boudreau explained that outside protesters and students in the encampment joined forces and \u201cdemonstrators broke for the administration building,\u201d eventually entering it. It is unclear whether WOL members participated in the occupation, as video the group shared of the action came from the CUNY encampment Telegram account. <\/p>\n<p>Of 31 protesters arrested in the building, Boudreau said none appeared to be students. The school attempted to evacuate the encampment following the arrests. Because \u201ca sizeable demonstration remained,\u201d Boudreau said he \u201cmade the difficult call of allowing the NYPD to enter the campus.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>No school administrators have named WOL as an outside entity stirring up outrage on their campuses. The NYPD did not respond to the <em>Washington Examiner\u2019s<\/em> request for comment about whether arrested encampment protesters from April 22 and April 30 were affiliated with the anti-Israel group or about the impact of WOL\u2019s protests throughout New York City since Oct. 7.<\/p>\n<h2>WOL and its members<\/h2>\n<p>Kiswani originally founded WOL as the New York City branch of the campus group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2805394\/americas-foreign-enemies-stoke-jew-hatred-on-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Students for Justice in Palestine<\/a>. Renamed in 2018, WOL maintains connections with many SJP groups and, according to Canary Mission, is \u201ca pivotal bridge between campus and community.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Both SJP and WOL receive funding from the Westchester People\u2019s Action Coalition Foundation, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/26\/us-news\/george-soros-maoist-fund-columbias-anti-israel-tent-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><em>New York Post<\/em><\/a>. The WESPAC Foundation receives funds from billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros and Felice Gelman, a retired investment banker who contributes to pro-Palestinian causes.  <\/p>\n<p>Like National SJP and individual SJP chapters, WOL is not registered as a 501(c)(3) organization. As such, its donors are not publicly known unless, as in the case of the WESPAC Foundation, it chooses to identify funding recipients themselves.<\/p>\n<p>WOL has organized numerous protests throughout the city since Oct. 7, including <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WOLPalestine\/status\/1741909275868299473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>supporting<\/a> efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-war-palestinian-protest-jfk-airport-615f14de31da2b9bb9938ef4a9a1faa5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>shut down Terminal 4<\/a> within John F. Kennedy International Airport on Jan. 1 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/jfk-airport-protest-pro-palestinian-demonstration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>again on<\/a> Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Canary Mission <a href=\"https:\/\/canarymission.org\/campaign\/NYC_Protest_Strategy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>cites WOL\u2019s other targets<\/a> as the New York City Marathon, the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting, the New York Public Library, the Museum of Modern Art, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Grand Central, Penn Station, and the Manhattan Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Canary Mission\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/canarymission.org\/individual\/Nerdeen_Kiswani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>dossier on Kiswani<\/a> is extensive and includes multiple instances of her calling for the abolition, annihilation, and defeat of Israel. Her arrest on May 31 was not her first in 2024. Kiswani <a href=\"https:\/\/tmj.news\/activist-nerdeen-kiswani-arrested-at-palestine-protest-a-day-after-report-against-nypd-is-published\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>was arrested<\/a> on Jan. 26 for using sound amplification without a permit at a rally against Israeli corporations and entities. She was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/16\/us-news\/nerdeen-kiswawni-gets-cuffed-at-nyc-anti-israel-protest-and-defiantly-grins-when-freed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>handcuffed<\/a> during <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NerdeenKiswani\/status\/1780083421768806479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>WOL\u2019s participation<\/a> in April 15 Tax Day protests, which were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/un-newsletter-exposed-sharing-ways-protest-in-us-against-israel-tax-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>organized across the country<\/a> to \u201cblock \u2026 the arteries of capitalism and jam \u2026 the wheels of production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed, WOL member, has shared frightening antisemitic language online, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/canarymission.org\/individual\/Fatima_Mohammed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Canary Mission dossier.<\/a> \u201cMay every Zionist burn in the hottest pit of hell,\u201d she posted on May 8, 2021. \u201cI pray upon the death of the USA,\u201d she wrote on X the following day. On Nov. 21, 2023, she posted, \u201cNothing but the complete dismantling of zionism will suffice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C6po52QMPGH\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mohammed shared<\/a> on Instagram on May 7 is said to show protesters at Hunter College burning an American flag. She shared a post of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C5uxYxNso7Z\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>burning Israeli flag<\/a> on April 14 and has shared multiple posts showing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C6eu20KyHXh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>the badges<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C6eZMlmrIpV\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>NYPD personnel<\/a> with Arab last names whom she says \u201chammer a baton on the backs of their people.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Akl has used social media to stoke hate. In an Instagram video shared on Nov. 26, 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C0Isia8tWXz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Akl led protesters<\/a> in chants on a crowded subway car to \u201cglobalize the intifada.\u201d According to Canary Mission\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/canarymission.org\/individual\/Abdullah_Akl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>dossier on Akl<\/a>, he led chants in Arabic on March 30, directing Hamas\u2019s armed wing to strike Tel Aviv. Video on X from March 19 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheIndypendent\/status\/1770226318740688984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>shows Akl<\/a> being arrested at a protest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Louder than hate<\/h2>\n<p>WOL is one of the numerous entities propelling hatred and decreasing public safety in an effort to promote a one-sided interpretation of peace in the Middle East, where Israel would be denied existence. As tensions mount amid continued conflict in Israel and Gaza, antisemitic actors inflict unending pain on Jewish communities worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>In the face of fringe activists dominating media coverage, this hate speech and destructive rhetoric require a firm response from people of goodwill. Malign influences will not promote a future of peace and stability where Israelis and Palestinians can coexist without fear of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p><em>Beth\u00a0Bailey\u00a0(<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BWBailey85\"><em>@BWBailey85<\/em><\/a><em>) is a freelance contributor to Fox News and the co-host of <\/em>The Afghanistan Project<em>, which takes a deep dive into nearly two decades of war and the tragedy wrought in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month in New York City, pro-Palestinian protesters from the anti-Israel group Within Our Lifetime held a &#8220;Day of Rage.&#8221; They chanted &#8220;Long live the intifada&#8221; and &#8220;Resistance is justified where people are occupied,&#8221; while displaying flags of terrorist organizations, as captured in a video account. 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