On October 7, 2023, on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, Hamas led an invasion into southern Israel, killing some 1,200 Israelis and taking 251 hostages back to Gaza. It was a day of terror, death, destruction, and immense anguish. 

By the next day, and as it was still underway, the Red-Green Alliance was already out in full force, in the form of protests across the United States. The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) celebrated the October 7 attacks as a victory, and, shortly thereafter and ever since, organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have been glorifying terrorism and terrorists, using terror symbols such as the Hamas red triangle, and supporting the U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

These annual protests have intensified every year. Even on regular days, society was disrupted by student encampments at university campuses across the country, pro-Palestine protests blocking the streets, and so-called activists obstructing ordinary life. But the escalation did not stop there; on May 21, 2025, the threats, chants, and incitement turned into on-the-ground violence when Party for Socialism and Liberation-affiliated Elias Rodriguez shot and killed Israel Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. 

Shouting “Free Palestine!”, Rodriguez brandished a red keffiyeh, and told museum attendees, “I did it for Palestine. I did it for Gaza.” The Bronx Anti-War Coalition and Unity of Fields openly praised his actions. 

The MEMRI National Security Initiative, which monitors the growing Red-Green Alliance, tracks how groups around the world will be celebrating this year’s October 7 anniversary. It found that this year will see more protests than ever worldwide, but especially in the U.S.: in Dearborn, New York City, Seattle, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C., and other cities. Even high school students are planning walkouts.

Based on the increasing escalation over the past three years, these protests will be bigger and more consequential. Promotional materials feature paragliders, used by the Hamas terrorists; compare the attack to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising; and call on protesters to wear keffiyehs and masks. 

A flyer circulated by Within Our Lifetime warns in Arabic, “Glory to the martyrs, victory to the resistance, what’s coming is greater.” Interestingly, the third part is absent in the English text, which mentions only the martyrs and the victory.

This is all part of a greater strategy to normalize Hamas and other terrorist organizations as “freedom fighters” and as “the resistance” — and the protests are aimed at rewriting history, controlling and changing the narrative, and turning a day of Jewish suffering into a day celebrating terror.

It is essential that these attempts are monitored, translated, exposed, and broadcast to the world in order to keep history from being rewritten.

Rachel Legow is a Research Fellow for the MEMRI National Security Initiative researching extremist threats inside the U.S.