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This article is part of the Combat Antisemitism Movement’s series on “Globalize the Intifada.” For the full analysis of the slogan’s origins, ideology, and real-world consequences, see the pillar page.
The international spread of “Globalize the Intifada” was facilitated by a network formally identified by multiple democratic governments as operating on behalf of a designated terrorist organization. Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, promoted Within Our Lifetime’s (WOL) inaugural rally and helped extend the slogan internationally. Multiple democratic governments have identified Samidoun as operating on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The PFLP is a terrorist organization designated by the United States, the European Union, Canada, and Israel.
The United States and Canada designated Samidoun under their counterterrorism frameworks. Germany banned and dissolved the organization’s activities domestically. In October 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated Samidoun and co-founder Khaled Barakat under its global terrorism sanctions authorities. The designation described Samidoun as a “sham charity” serving as an international fundraiser for the PFLP. Together, Treasury found, “Samidoun and Barakat play critical roles in external fundraising for the PFLP.” Israeli authorities designated Samidoun as part of the group’s overseas operational infrastructure.
From its first use, the slogan spread through networks tied to a designated terror group.
The Terror Organization and Its International Network
Founded in 1967, the PFLP has carried out some of the deadliest terrorist attacks in modern history. These include multiple airline hijackings, the 1972 Lod Airport massacre, and numerous suicide bombings during the Second Intifada, including the October 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi.
Samidoun’s international operations are documented across Europe, North America, and Australia. The organization uses a network of local chapters and affiliated groups to advance PFLP messaging under the banner of prisoner solidarity and human rights advocacy. In practice, its activities include organizing protests, producing propaganda materials, and raising funds for the PFLP.
Crucially, Samidoun’s materials repeatedly repackage the PFLP’s terror ideology in the language of human rights activism. This framing has proven effective. It embeds PFLP messaging within mainstream activist and academic environments that would otherwise reject explicit PFLP affiliation.
From Activist Networks to Synagogue Confrontations
Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, has documented ties to Samidoun. It was Al-Awda’s New York and New Jersey branch that organized the November 2025 protest surrounding Park East Synagogue in Manhattan during a Nefesh B’Nefesh aliyah event. Demonstrators chanted “From New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada,” “Death, death to the IDF,” and “Resistance, you make us proud, take another settler out.” One protester shouted repeatedly “We need to make them scared!” — a call the crowd echoed in unison. Several demonstrators hurled explicit antisemitic abuse at Jews entering the synagogue. The confrontation marked one of the clearest and most threatening uses of intifada rhetoric in the United States.
🚨🚨🚨 HAPPENING NOW OUTSIDE PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE
Antisemites have showed up outside Park East synagogue and are chanting for intifada.
The Rabbi of the synagogue is a holocaust survivor who remembers vividly the horrors of Kristallnacht.
Now, he gets to see the same human… pic.twitter.com/fFDtt8nOhV
— Rabbi Poupko (@RabbiPoupko) November 20, 2025
One week after Zohran Mamdani took office, Al-Awda organized a protest outside Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in a heavily-Jewish residential neighborhood in Queens, targeting another Israeli real estate event. Demonstrators chanted “Say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas here,” “Globalize the intifada,” and “Death to the IDF.” The protest forced the early closure of a daycare, two elementary schools, and a religious institution in the surrounding neighborhood. This was an open declaration of support for a designated terrorist organization, chanted outside a synagogue in a residential neighborhood populated by Jewish families.
SCANDAL: Pro-Palestine protesters gathered in a Jewish neighborhood in Queens and protested outside a yeshiva, chanting: “Say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas here.”
Hamas is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, responsible for mass murder, rape, and the slaughter of… pic.twitter.com/mkDyH6Zs2M
— Combat Antisemitism Movement (@CombatASemitism) January 9, 2026
Al-Awda Escalates: Hezbollah Flags, Hamas Symbols, and Physical Attacks
Six months later, on May 6, 2026, the group organized a second protest at Park East Synagogue, again targeting a Jewish event promoting life in Israel. A Hezbollah flag was visible in the crowd. NYPD deployed dozens of officers to keep protesters from the entrance.
That same week, Al-Awda organized a parallel protest at the Young Israel of Midwood in Brooklyn, where demonstrators displayed a banner featuring the red inverted triangle used in Hamas propaganda to denote a target, chanted “Brick by brick, wall by wall, Zionism will fall” and “There is only one solution, intifada revolution,” and physically attacked a young Jewish girl outside the entrance. At least three demonstrators were arrested after attacking counter-protesters. Following the Park East protest, Al-Awda threatened: “We will continue to show up whenever and wherever these sales occur.”
Mamdani did not condemn either protest. Instead, he redirected criticism toward the synagogues themselves, arguing that events promoting Jewish immigration to Israel violated international law.
🇺🇸 New York City, May 6, 2026: During the antisemitic riots outside Park East Synagogue, Hamas supporters were seen beating a photo of the Lubavitcher Rebbe while waving Hezbollah flags.
Not about Palestine.
About hating Jews and glorifying terrorism. pic.twitter.com/RwWvkhidP4
— Combat Antisemitism Movement (@CombatASemitism) May 7, 2026
The progression from Samidoun’s promotion of the inaugural WOL rally in 2021 to Al-Awda’s repeated targeting of synagogues in 2025 and 2026 shows how PFLP-connected networks have carried the slogan across years and across institutions. What began at a Brooklyn rally in 2021 ended at synagogue doors in 2025 and 2026.
Continue Reading:
- The Intifadas: The Terror Campaigns Behind ‘Globalize the Intifada’
- The Organizations Behind ‘Globalize the Intifada’ and the Campaign to Target Israel and America
- ‘Globalize the Intifada’ on Campus: How the Slogan Became a Weapon Against Jewish Students
- Synagogues Under Siege: ‘Globalize the Intifada’ at Synagogue Doors
- Zohran Mamdani: When ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Reaches Elected Office
- The Bondi Beach Hanukkah Massacre: When ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Became Reality
- Cultural Incitement: How ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Entered Music, Fashion, and Art
