Anti-Israel activists join immigration protests in Los Angeles

Anti-Israel groups in the United States have joined the ongoing immigration protests in Los Angeles, California, and other U.S. cities, which began last Friday. Vocal anti-Israel activist groups like the "National Students for Justice in Palestine," the "Palestinian Youth Movement," along with "PAL-Awda" and "Within Our Lifetime," have urged their followers to join the demonstrations and attempt to link them to the Jewish state.

The organizations oppose Israel’s existence and support the Hamas Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis. Pro-Palestinian graffiti has been mixed with slogans like “Intifada” and “Free Palestine,” as well as the Hamas red triangle symbol, which has been associated with attacks on Israeli civilians

National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) compared the Trump administration with Nazi Germany and urged its followers to oppose “the Fourth Reich.”

“We have a duty to resist oppression wherever it manifests: from the barrios of LA to the refugee camps of Bethlehem,” National SJP announced in an official statement. “We will globalize the intifada,” which is widely seen as a call for terrorist attacks in the U.S. and across the Western world.

“Death to the occupation, from the West Bank to LA,” the pro-Hamas organization declared.

The anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) left-wing advocacy organization equated Israel's actions with the Holocaust murder of six million Jews during World War II.

“Never again means never again for anyone. Not for Palestinians under siege. Not for immigrants in detention,” it claimed.  

The group further compared the situation in Gaza with the U.S.-Mexico border, claiming, “The same surveillance drones used over Gaza now fly over the US-Mexico border.”

“This is a global infrastructure of state violence and we must dismantle it together.”

The leading anti-Israel group, "Within Our Lifetime", accused the United States and Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza, stating, “As the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza reaches its most violent point yet, weaponizing aid to displace, slaughter, and starve Palestinians, ICE is disappearing community members.”

"Unity of Fields" (formerly "Palestine Action US") called on its followers to start “an intifada, people’s war” in Los Angeles.

“This level of militant, revolutionary internationalism in the heart of Amerika was unthinkable before the al-Aqsa Flood,” the organization argued, referring to the Hamas Oct. 7 attack in 2023.

“We owe everything to the anti-colonial armed resistance of the Palestinian people. Sinwar and Deif and all of the brave warriors,” it added, referring to Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif, the late Hamas leaders who planned the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Both leaders were eliminated by the IDF in 2024.

The number of antisemitic incidents has surged in the United States since the Oct. 7 attack, with hostility toward Israel and Jews already resulting in deadly consequences.

Last month, an anti-Israel activist murdered Israeli embassy employees Yaron Lischinsky and his soon-to-be fiancée Sarah Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.

Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter condemned the attack and linked it directly to the growing anti-Israel and anti-Jewish rhetoric, saying, “The couple that was gunned down tonight in the name of ‘Free Palestine’ was a couple about to be engaged.”

Earlier this month, at least six Jewish Americans were seriously injured in a terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado. The victims were between the ages of 67 and 88 and included a Holocaust survivor. The perpetrator, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, attacked them with Molotov cocktails.