Monday’s anti-Israel protest at John F. Kennedy International Airport — where entrances to the airport were temporarily blocked and participants likened the IDF and NYPD to the KKK — were just the latest acts designed to disrupt life in New York City while explode. emits antisemitic poison.
Most of them have been organized by the radical group Within Our Lifetime, run by Nerdeen Kiswani and Fatima Mousa Mohammad.
“Expect us everywhere, anytime, any day, during holidays and busy seasons – on the streets, airports and stations,” Mohammed wrote on X Monday. “Until we get justice this city will not rest. and if that bothers you — go cry about it [President] biden who slaughtered our people.”
Although the latest protests were sparked by the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, none of this is new for Kiswani who, during his student days at CUNY Law School, was a key member of Students for Justice in Palestine.
“Anything that happens at CUNY Law School involving antisemitism, Nerdeen is involved,” City Council member Inna Vernikov alleged to The Post.
Our Leader for Life Nerdeen Kiswani outside the News Corp building during the November protest. ZUMAPRESS.com Protesters outside John F. Kennedy International Airport compare the IDF and NYPD to the KKK. AFP via Getty Images
Calls to Kiswani’s lawyer went unanswered.
Kiswani, who spoke about facing racism and discrimination as a Palestinian, gave a controversial commencement speech for the law school in 2022, in which he condemned Israel and spoke negatively about CUNY “normalizing” student and faculty visits to Israel.
“It has nothing to do with graduating from law school,” Vernikov told The Post. “And things got worse.”
Mohammed, meanwhile, followed in Kiswani’s footsteps in May 2023, when he gave the CUNY School of Law commencement address. He described the law as “a manifestation of white supremacy.” He called the NYPD and the military “fascists.”
Kiswani reportedly said at the 2021 protest: “I hope the pop-pop is the last sound some Zionists hear in their lives.” ZUMAPRESS.com
On Oct. 6 — the day before Hamas launched its surprise attack on Israel — The Post reported that CUNY Law had quietly eliminated student speakers from the 2024 commencement.
“[Kiswani] very influential and founded the organization [Students for Justice in Palaestine] and has participated in every violent protest since October 7,” Rafaella Gunz, who was a law student with Kiswani before transferring to Yeshiva University, told The Post. “In the classroom, he’s always talking about his purpose instead of focusing on what we’re learning, which should be the law in the US.”
The daughter of Palestinian refugees, Kiswani said she grew up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. He became co-president of Students for Justice in Palestine at CUNY-Staten Island in 2014.
During the All Out on Christmas protest, Within Our Lifetime supporters took over the streets near Rockefeller Center. James Keivom
In 2015, he co-founded Within Our Lifetime, which has been responsible for the protests that have rocked the city since the October 7 terrorist attacks.
In July 2021, Kiswani – who said that “abolishing Israel is the key to peace” – reportedly told a crowd at an anti-Israel rally that, “I hope that pop-pop was the last sound some Zionists heard in their lives.”
Later that year, he led about 300 protesters as part of the “Globalize The Intifada” movement, in an attempt to overrun the entrance to the Museum of Modern Art.
Flyers like these invite pro-Palestinian protesters to “flood” various neighborhoods. wolpalestine/Instagram
Speaking of bullhorns, Kiswani announced: “This is where they launder their money, where they launder their reputation.”
He chose Ronald S. Lauder, honorary chairman of MOMA and president of the World Jewish Congress.
The situation has become more aggressive in recent months. Within Our Lifetime organized a “Flood NYC for Palestine” march on December 26, with approximately 1,000 protesters filling Lower Manhattan sites including City Hall and Zuccotti Park.
Fatima Mohammed wrote on her social media that she and her fellow members of Within Our Lifetime “will not rest, and if that bothers you — go cry about it to wait.”
Kiswani implored protesters to “take matters into your own hands.”
On Christmas Day, a group of Within Our Lifetime protesters marched through the streets of Manhattan. Some carried blood-red Nativity scenes and chanted that “Christmas is cancelled.” Six of the anti-Israel marchers were arrested.
In mid-December, the group – which has a web page that provides chants (including “There’s only a solution! Intifada Revolution!”) and suggests protesters can cover their faces to avoid identification – shut down the Manhattan Bridge.
A month earlier, shortly after Manhattan’s News Corp building was highlighted on the target map, protesters from Within Our Lifetime occupied the lobby of The Post’s headquarters and chanted, “Free Palestine.”
In Our Lives protestors take over the Brooklyn Bridge and storm wolpalestine/Instagram traffic
Considering the chaos in New York City and the role Our Lifetimes played in it all, Vernikov described Kiswani as “a very dangerous person.
“This rally happened in New York, causing the situation to be closed, he was behind them. He said he was proud of Hamas and he loved them.”
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