🧵Our community remains undeterred: STOP THE SALE OF STOLEN PALESTINIAN LAND
On Tuesday, PAL-Awda NY/NJ and hundreds of our community members protested the illegal "Great Israeli Real Estate Event of 2026" in Manhattan. The event openly promoted real estate on
#StolenPalestinianLand, violating local, federal, and international law.
Depite a brutal police response emboldened by lawmakers who seek to protect these criminal events, New Yorkers have made it clear: our community remains undeterred in the face of intimidation, and we will continue to stand against the sale of stolen Palestinian land in our neighborhoods.
Tuesday’s event was hosted by Israeli real estate companies Home in Israel, Emanuel Group, and International Marketing and Promotion, in partnership with Israeli Leumi Bank. Event organizers advertised properties in Gush Etzion, Kfar Eldad, Karnei Shomron, among others– all illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The event also provided prospective settlers financial guidance to buy property in "Anglo neighborhoods," expediting ethnic cleansing in all of Palestine, and furthering the dispossession on which the colonial Zionist project is built.
The participating real estate companies shamefully chose to hide their illegal event in the Park East Synagogue on the Upper East Side, the same synagogue that hosted an illegal settler recruitment fair in November 2025.
Tuesday's protest reminded these land-thieving agents and their Zionist collaborators that we will continue to show up whenever and wherever these sales occur. We reject all attempts to distract from the reason for our principled protest.
Tuesday's rally was the first against illegal Israeli real estate events since the introduction of state and city-level bills that attempt to establish unconstitutional anti-protest “buffer zones."
Despite the NYPD forcing us to hold our demonstration 300 feet away from the land sale, NYPD officers violently kettled, barricaded, brutally grabbed, pushed, and pepper-sprayed pro-Palestine protesters while protecting Zionist counter agitators, including members of Betar, who tried to grab and push those present.
We condemn the complicity of elected officials and people in power, who have shielded criminal, genocide-supporting Zionist agencies, instead of protecting the rights and interests of their own constituents.
While
@NYCMayor criticized Tuesday's real estate event, his words rung hollow when the NYPD brutalized New Yorkers for standing up against stolen Palestinian land sales in our neighborhoods, and when there is no response to actionable calls for accountability.
In March of 2024, Palestinian lawyers
@PALwarcrimes and advocates submitted an official demand letter to the
@NewYorkStateAG, calling for an audit and investigations of these illegal events. To this day, our community is awaiting a response.
Tuesday's event violated New York Property Law, New York Human Rights Law, state and federal real estate and housing laws, and international laws, amongst others. City and state officials have the power—and the responsibility—to respond to our calls for action.
We reaffirm our demands to the Mamdani administration to advance meaningful calls to the Attorney General to investigate, audit and stop stolen Palestinian land sales, remove the tax exempt status of those hosting these events; drop
@NYPDPC as Police Commissioner; and disband the Strategic Response Group, in order to curb the NYPD's discriminatory targeting of our community. We continue to look towards the steadfast people of Gaza and across Palestine as we protest and disrupt. So long as there is impunity in our neighborhoods for the theft of Palestinian land, we refuse to remain silent.
Palestine is not for sale. No settlers on stolen land.
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