Saluting the Palestinian “resistance” on the anniversary of the October 7th attack

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The Palestinian Youth Movement (“PYM”) is a “grassroots movement of young Palestinians in Palestine and in exile worldwide” that plays “an active role as a young generation in our national struggle for the liberation” of Palestine and the Palestinian people.

According to PYM, the movement “is a space that brings together Palestinian youth from all over the U.S. and Canada with diverse views and various political, cultural, and social backgrounds in a collective process of decision-making, leadership building, and action.”

PYM is also “initiating grassroots, community-based organizing on the ground, particularly addressing the context and needs of the different Arab/Palestinian communities we live in while maintaining PYM’s Return and Liberation framework of struggle.”

In recent years, PYM has become the leading force organizing rallies and demonstrations in Canada and the U.S. in support of the Palestinian people and its “resistance” armed groups, some of which are designated by both countries as terrorist entities.

On October 7-9, 2023, PYM posted on Facebook statements glorifying and celebrating the attack launched by the Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas and the Islamic Jihad on Israel in which approximately 1,200 were killed, more than 240 abducted to Gaza and atrocities were committed including mass murder of families and party-goers, burning people alive, beheadings, brutal gang-rape and torture.

On August 31, 2024, the Palestinian Youth Movement in Orange County issued the following statement:

RESISTANCE UNTIL LIBERATION

Join us at Pershing Square on October 5th to join the national day of action. October marks one year since our people in Gaza showed the world that the Palestinian people will continue to resist their continued displacement and dispossession by their colonizer. We know that our people will be victorious. As we approach the one year mark of Israel’s genocide on Gaza, we salute our people’s steadfastness and resistance. We call for October 5th as a global day of action for Palestine to mark this year as one where our people stood tall against Zionism, as they have for nearly 100 years.

In the span of one year, the Gaza Health Ministry has released the names of over 40,000 martyrs, with updated projections estimating over 189,000 martyrs.

Yet amidst this genocide, our people in Gaza, across Palestine, and across the world remain steadfast in our resistance.

The genocidal Zionist project has passed a point of failure beyond which there is no return, due in no small part to our movement. From the farthest reaches of the diaspora to those nearest to our occupied homeland, we have put enormous roadblocks in Zionism’s path, roadblocks that will soon prove insurmountable.

Zionism’s time has waned, is waning, and is on the road to a humiliated defeat.

The struggle continues! On October 5, we will make clear from wherever we are that our movement is going nowhere until full liberation and return are ours. We will not stop, we will not rest, until every inch of Palestine is free.

🗓️: October 5th

⏰: 2PM

📍: Pershing Square