“With Palestine solidarity protests ramping up in the U.S. and around the world in response to Israel’s large-scale, indiscriminate assault on Gaza following Hamas’s horrific massacre and kidnapping of Israeli civilians on October 7, troubling reports are emerging of anti-Muslim and antisemitic White nationalists attempting to hijack these protests to their own ends.
Ground reports from activists indicate that White supremacists and neonazis have joined demonstrations to spread their propaganda by positioning themselves as part of the solidarity movement. While only a few incidents have so far been reported, these racist propagandists stand to pose a significant threat to progressive organizing for Palestinian liberation—particularly as protestors demand a ceasefire, the return of vital services to Gaza, humanitarian relief, and an end to U.S. military aid to Israel.
White nationalists’ incendiary slogans and rhetoric aim to inject antisemitism into solidarity protests to further their own agenda to fuel conflict, threatening the physical safety and political demands of demonstrators. They do this intentionally, acting in an inflamed political environment in which allegations of antisemitism are used to mischaracterize and neutralize critiques of the Israeli state’s war crimes and human rights violations.”
Ben Lorber 
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