"PALESTINE LAND DAY" in front of The New York Times.

The rally and march "PALESTINE LAND DAY 2025" in Manahatta, Lenapehoking (Manhattan, New York City), was organized by the Shut It Down For Palestine coalition, on March 30, 2025.

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The rally was in Union Square Park. After the protest in Union Square, thousands of peaceful New Yorkers marched to The New York Times and Times Square, where they ended the march.

One of the speakers was former presidential candidate in 2024, Claudia De la Cruz, a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (www pslweb.org).

Anti-zionist Jews of Neturei Karta International (www.nkusa.org) attended the rally and march.

Organizers invited people to the National March in Washington DC, on April 5, 2025. 1 PM. Pennsylvania Ave NW and 3rd Street NW. www.marchforpalestine.org

"On April 5th, we are standing up to Trump and his plan for Gaza, we are standing up to repression, we are standing up to the US’s continued facilitation of the genocide in Gaza. We demand a permanent ceasefire and an arms embargo now!" says the Palestinian Youth Movement.

"Since 1976, #LandDay has been commemorated by the Palestinian people in Palestine and the diaspora to sustain the struggle for all Palestinians to remain in and return to historic Palestine.

Stemming from unified protests against Zionist theft of Palestinian land, each year Land Day is a reflection of the ongoing steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their commitment to the land.

This year, as Trump threatens to ‘take Gaza’ directly from the White House and as the Zionist displacement campaign escalates in the West Bank, our duty to stand with Palestine is as urgent as ever.

Join us in the streets in New York City to assert the right of every Palestinian to remain and return to Palestine!" said The People's Forum before the event.
peoplesforum.org/events/land-day-2025

"For Palestinians, March 30th embodies the history of our peoples struggle in defense of our land and our struggle to return to it.

In 1976 when the zionist entity announced its plans to seize 20,000 dunams (~4,900 acres) of land in al-Jalil in the north of ‘48 Palestine, Palestinians ignited a wave of widespread protests across Palestine, from the West Bank to Gaza to those in exile. The message was clear: no piece of Palestine – not one dunam – could be taken by the zionists without resistance from all of Palestine. Palestinian local councils and defense committees called for a general strike on March 30th and declared it Yom al-Ard (Land Day). On that day, six Palestinian youth were shot and killed in cold blood by occupation forces while taking part in protests in al-Jalil, becoming the first martyrs of Land Day.

42 years later on March 30th 2018, tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza commemorated Land Day by marching on the eastern border with the occupation demanding their Right to Return. By the end of the day occupation forces had massacred seventeen Palestinian protesters, many of them children and youth, and the Great Return March was born," said Within Our Lifetime in 2022.
INFO: www.wolpalestine.com/campaigns/land-day-2022-defund-racism-defend-palestine%ef%bf%bc

Decolonizing Palestine Is Decolonizing the World

"The struggle against Israeli apartheid is deeply interconnected with broader struggles for justice, freedom, equality and dignity worldwide. Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip has revealed to the world the brutality of settler-colonialism, militarized capitalism, and Western complicity in systemic oppression. From Rabat to Cairo, Jakarta to Dakar, and Cape Town to Bogotá, global solidarity movements have recognized that the fight to free Palestine is also a fight to free themselves from all forms of colonial domination, racism, and imperial violence. Across the west, solidarity activists are repeating, Palestine frees us all.

As Palestinians, we remain resolute in our struggle, and we take strength from the millions worldwide who have risen up, organized mass demonstrations, disrupted arms shipments, occupied universities and institutions complicit in genocide, forcing many to end ties, and built Apartheid-Free Zones (AFZs) across the globe. The Palestinian struggle, rooted in over a century of resisting settler-colonial oppression, continues to inspire movements against racial, Indigenous, climate, gender, and economic injustice," said the BDS Movement in 2025
www bdsmovement.net/IAW-2025-Call-Out

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