A prominent anti-Israel activist group is organizing a mass demonstration in front of the White House on June 8 in a bid to further increase pressure on US President Joe Biden to turn against the Jewish state amid its war against Hamas in Gaza.
The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), an organization that openly supports violence and terrorism against Israel, says that the planned protest is in response to the Israeli army commencing military operations in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza. The group issued a statement on Instagram denouncing Biden for supposedly failing to enforce his “red line” against Israel by not cutting off arms shipments.
“A month ago, Biden said that the invasion of Rafah was a red line. But now, the invasion of Rafah has continued for weeks, has expanded to the entire Gaza Strip — Biden’s red line is nowhere to be seen,” the group wrote.
PYM accused Biden of facilitating the indiscriminate murder of Palestinian civilians through his support of Israel, which has been targeting Hamas in Gaza since the terrorist group launched the war with its Oct. 7 invasion of the Jewish state.
“Instead of following through and stopping military aid to Israel, Biden has authorized billions more in weapons shipments to be used to kill and massacre Palestinians,” the group added.
The anti-Israel organization says it wants to pressure the Biden administration into securing an “immediate ceasefire, an immediate end to the siege on Gaza, the freedom of all Palestinian prisoners, and an end to the occupation of Palestine.” PYM did not note that many of the aforementioned prisoners were jailed for terrorist activity, or make any mention of releasing the Israeli hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7 who are still being held captive in Gaza.
The groups says that it chose to hold the demonstration on June 8 to commemorate the “eight months of US-Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people.” The chosen date notably cuts off Oct. 7, when Hamas terrorists massacred over 1,200 people throughout southern Israel and kidnapped more than 250 hostages.. The chosen date suggests that Israel began its alleged “genocide” against Palestinians prior to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) beginning their incursion into Gaza in late October.
The Palestinian Youth Movement has repeatedly supported violence against Israel and has ties to terrorist groups. The organization handed out candy and held public demonstrations on Oct. 7 to celebrate Hamas’ indiscriminate murder of Israeli civilians. On Instagram, the group referred to Hamas as a “Palestinian resistance” group and referred to the Oct. 7 massacre as “decolonization.” The group recently helped organize the People’s Conference for Palestine this month, an event which featured speakers from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist organization.
“On Oct. 7, Gaza broke free. Palestinians in Gaza crossed the illegitimate border fence and reentered 1948 lands for the first time in many of our lifetime,” PYM wrote on Oct. 9.
“”This is a historic, unprecedented moment for the Palestinian people. For the first time since 1948, the Zionist state has lost control of its occupied territories,” the group added. “The Israeli intelligence’s failure to detect these plans in advance and the military’s inability to crush the resistance quickly is shattering the notion of the occupation’s invincibility.”
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