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Thursday, October 9, 2025
US anti-Israel activists vow to keep up ‘the struggle’ after news of ceasefire deal
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Anti-Israel protest groups in the US herald the ceasefire deal announced earlier today with calls to keep up pressure on Israel.
The Palestinian Youth Movement announces protests in New York City and other locations for tonight, saying, “Gaza will rise, the struggle never dies.”
The group vows to “recommit to the long fight ahead for a global arms embargo, the release of all our prisoners, and full liberation and return.”
The anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace appears to support a ceasefire but says the plan that was approved “seeks to create a new Middle East in which Israeli apartheid and genocide are normalized.”
“Justice can only begin once Israeli impunity is challenged,” the group says.
Other statements are more ambiguous and some groups have not commented.
“Freedom is only born in the womb of suffering,” National Students for Justice in Palestine says.
The hardline activist group Within Our Lifetime says, “Every free person must feel a debt upon their shoulders toward Gaza and its people, a debt that can only be discharged by the complete removal and dissolution of this occupation.”
The news of the ceasefire comes after the activist groups held widespread rallies this week celebrating the second anniversary of the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel.
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