Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)

United Nations.

I'd like to introduce the next speaker, who is Lance from Palestinian Youth Movement.

Thank you so much

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It's not just them saying he's not conducive to the public good, i.e. we don't like what he says and a freedom of speech issue here.

They are leaning into the fact that this organization, the Palestine Youth Movement, was responsible for saying some, as this publication says, questionable things about the rights and wrongs of taking hostages.

And I think they took sort of extraordinary measures in terms of hassling councillors who had supported the genocide or had legitimized Israel's genocide by direct action.

It's not a prescribed terrorist organization.

And they're now sat in their pompous ivory tower, writing letters to Shabana Mahmood.

And I'll tell you which way I think this is going to go.

I think the extra detail of the Palestine youth movement, which I'm not You know, I'm not sitting here saying it was right to hassle councillors.

We're being hassled as green councillors for supporting the Zionism is racism motion.

In cultural news, Rapper Macklemore is facing significant backlash from Jewish organisations.

The criticism stems from his decision to pledge proceeds from his upcoming Free Palestine Concert Tour to the Palestinian Youth Movement, or PYM.

PYM has previously described the Hamas-led October 7 attacks on Israel as a prison break.

Jewish groups argue that supporting PYM risks legitimising violence against Jews and justifying attacks on innocent civilians.

His UK tour is going to benefit a group that said that October 7th was legitimate and effective, per the New York Post.

Proceeds from the London show at Wembley, managed by Live Nation, is going to support what they call the Palestine Youth Movement, which is, as you can imagine, is probably a bunch of 40-year-old terror adjacent, if not terrorists themselves.

The spokesperson for this, as well as other members of the group, have been well-documented online defending it.

They s- they described October 7th, and I'm reading the verbatim quote, as a quote, "prison break." Hmm.

Alarmingly, antisemitism in Ireland has reached unprecedented heights over the past year, putting the country's 2,200 Jews at immediate risk, with reports describing Ireland as the most dangerous country in Europe for Jews today.

Separately, controversy surrounds American rapper Macklemore's upcoming UK tour, which will benefit the Palestine Youth Movement, a group whose spokesperson praised Hamas's October 7 actions.

Domestically, Haredi protesters, identified with the extremist Jerusalem faction, blocked Highway 4 near the Yavni interchange, leading to dispersal by police using stun grenades and a water cannon.

The protest was sparked by the arrests of two IDF draft evaders.

He is betraying his voters and the cause that won him the elections." And then there's a lot of hate, and a lot, a lot of hate for Mamdani, and a lot of hate for him, which I'm not gonna show.

But I'm gonna continue here from the Palestinian Youth Movement that had a whole long thread also explaining their position on Mamdani.

And again, the Palestinian Youth Movement has a right to have their voices heard.

"In last year's election, Zohran Mamdani won the votes of many New Yorkers who believed he would use his position and influence to end the complicity of New York City's economic, social, and political institutions in the genocide of the Palestinian people.

Mamdani raised the political ceiling through his pro-Palestinian rhetoric, but for the millions of New Yorkers who've been pre-permanently transformed by witnessing Israel's livestream genocide, Mamdani has not yet delivered on his campaign promises.

Elsewhere in the UK, Jewish leaders and politicians are questioning concert promoter Live Nation's vetting processes.

This comes after the UK branch of the Palestinian youth movement reportedly defended Hamas's actions on October 7th.

On the diplomatic front, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Lebanese President Joseph Ayran concerning the seizure of hundreds of kilograms of explosives from Hezbollah.

A State Department official reported that Rubio urged accountability for those who financed and directed the shipment, emphasising that the explosives should not be returned to the group.

And the union communique that was published back on the eighth of October says the shipment was not loaded onto Air France flight AF966 to Tel Aviv as allegedly it was supposed to do.

It credits airport employees and union mobilization after an alert from Urgence Palestine and the Palestinian Youth Movement.

So there was a tip-off from campaigners there.

The campaigners finally had something concrete to act on, a shipment, a destination, and a flight to point at enough detail for the workers to actually do something.