Zohran Mamdani’s DSA sponsors protest with ‘death, death to the IDF!’ war cry
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Here on the corner of 16th Street NW and H Street NW, just steps from the White House, across Lafayette Park, a war cry rippled out among a swarm of demonstrators against Israel’s military, the Israel Defense Forces.
"Death, death to the IDF, the IDF, the IDF! Death, death to the IDF!" they chanted.
They denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was meeting with President Donald Trump, as a possible ceasefire between Israel and Hamas loomed.
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Last week, British punk rapper Bobby Vylan shouted the incendiary slogan at the Glastonbury Festival, leading Secretary of State Marco Rubio to bar him from entering the U.S. Yet, his words have now crossed borders, absorbed into the militant propaganda of anti-Israel activists, including groups aligned with Hamas. The rallying cry has become the newest chant for a radical protest network spanning ideologies and continents. And despite demanding a ceasefire for months, their messaging on Monday night made one thing clear: they aren’t satisfied with a ceasefire. They want the end of the state of Israel.
According to new analysis from the Pearl Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative that is tracking the professional protest industry in a comprehensive public database, a coalition of 40 organizations – with combined annual revenues of $19.2 million – organized the "Noise Out" protests this week against Israel, with the call for "Death, death to the IDF."
In this network, 25 organizations — or about two of three — are self-described socialist, Marxist, Leninist, communist, or socialist-adjacent. Another 15 groups — or about one of three — are Muslim or Arab organizations.
It’s an intersectional convergence of extremist ideologies — Marxist, Islamist, and radical anti-Americanism — masquerading as "social justice."
A look at the professional protest industry
As the crowd chanted against the IDF, local artist Rafikki Morris, a leader in the All-African People's Revolutionary Party — which seeks to create an "all-African socialist government" — turned toward the noise and smiled.
"Death, death to the IDF!" Morris responded to the protestors who started the chant. "They’re reading my mind, you know." The crowd cheered.
A protestor with his face covered in a black-and-white keffiyeh held a sign high -- "DEATH, DEATH TO THE 🔻 IDF 🔻" – punctuated with two inverted red triangles — a symbol used by Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military wing, to identify Israeli military targets. (The sign added the words: "Jews for Intifada.")
One man wore the Hamas red triangle on his shirt. Another carried a sign: "RESISTANCE🔻IS 🔻JUSTIFIED."
Hours later, the Israeli military announced Hamas fighters killed at least six IDF soldiers in an ambush near the town of Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.
The self-declared Marxist, socialist,........
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