American Muslims for Palestine, Hamas’s ‘propaganda arm,’ organized the rally
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Murals honoring Hamas and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists were featured Saturday at a protest that American Muslims for Palestine, a group recently accused of serving as Hamas’s “propaganda arm in New York City,” helped organize.
Several Hamas flags, including one depicting a militant of the terror group, were also spotted among the crowd of thousands of protesters, many of whom bused in from across the country. Speakers included Council on American-Islamic Relations executive director Nihad Awad, who once said he was “happy to see” Hamas attack Israel, notorious anti-Semite Linda Sarsour, and Grant Miner, the Columbia University graduate student expelled for storming a campus building.
Radical activist waves Hamas flag pic.twitter.com/Egdr0HoGv8
— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) April 5, 2025
Spotted two more Hamas flags, one of which depicts a Hamas militant pic.twitter.com/WPqAmlEhmu
— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) April 5, 2025
One of the murals honored Walid Daqqa, a terrorist with the PFLP who was convicted for orchestrating the 1984 abduction, torture, and murder of a 19-year-old Israeli soldier. It included a quote of him saying he saw captivity as “a viewing angle of the overall Arab situation and struggle.”
First on our list is Walid Daqqa, a convicted PFLP terrorist who led a terror cell that abducted, tortured, and murdered IDF soldier Moshe Tamam.
He died from cancer while in IDF custody last year. pic.twitter.com/lPJfpWPcCc
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) April 5, 2025
Another mural showed a black-and-white image of Hossam Shabat with “PRESS” emblazoned across his chest. Shabat has been portrayed as a member of the media given his status as an Al Jazeera reporter—but he was also a Hamas sniper. Shabat shared celebratory posts on social media following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack and, before his death in an Israeli strike last month, was known to publish propaganda accusing Israel’s “occupation army” of atrocities.
Last but not least, we have newly-deceased Hamas sniper and Al Jazeera “journalist” Hossam Shabat.
For an “anti-genocide” march, there sure are a lot of terror-lovers in the crowd, aren’t there? pic.twitter.com/w2M5Nx7HA3
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) April 5, 2025
A third mural highlighted Basel Al-Araj who, according to the Jerusalem Post, led a terrorist cell but was killed in a shootout with Israeli soldiers before he could carry out his planned attacks. A fourth featured Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian poet who said “most Jews” are “evil.”
This guy here is PFLP terrorist Basel al-Arraj, who was killed during a gunbattle with the IDF.
His so-called poetry—more accurately described as murderous screeds—are frequently circulated by pro-terror activists. pic.twitter.com/TW6aPs1IJ2
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) April 5, 2025
This guy here is Refaat Alareer, a Gazan Hamas acolyte who was killed in the early days of the war. Refaat was himself the brother of a Hamas terrorist and is on record saying that “most Jews are evil.”
He regularly called for violence and was an avid supporter of Oct. 7th pic.twitter.com/xUMu9ZDscl
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) April 5, 2025
During Saturday’s rally, protesters shouted out the typical “river to the sea” and “one solution chants.” Keffiyeh-clad agitators climbed on top of a Department of Homeland Security vehicle while the crowd was stopped in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s headquarters. Several department SUVs were vandalized, and at least one had a slashed tire.
NOW: ICE Homeland Security cars left defaced and with a flat tire, after ‘March on ICE’ Pro-Palestine protest rallied outside demanding Mahmoud Khalil be freed. Washington DC pic.twitter.com/5jbvdhV77o
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 5, 2025
The march was organized by roughly a dozen groups, including several anti-Israel organizations such as American Muslims for Palestine, the Palestinian Youth Movement, and Jewish Voice for Peace.
Families of Oct. 7 victims and hostages accused American Muslims for Palestine of serving as “Hamas’ propaganda arm in New York City and on the Columbia University campus” in a lawsuit filed last month, saying the group should be held accountable “for aiding and abetting Hamas’ continuing acts of international terrorism.”
The Palestinian Youth Movement and Jewish Voice for Peace, meanwhile, were slapped with a class action lawsuit in January for their role in shutting down access to several major roadways in D.C. on Feb. 1, 2024, for close to an hour.
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