Anti-Zionist Groups Amplify Terrorist Propaganda Across Digital Platforms

In the years following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, a disturbing pattern has emerged of anti-Zionist organizations and activists systematically sharing and amplifying terrorist propaganda across social media platforms and in physical spaces.

The day after the attack, the University of Illinois Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter posted a video on Instagram showing what appeared to be a Hamas militant filming inside an Israeli home during the massacre. The post included a translated caption reading “Under the feet of the Mujahideen, on this day.”

This concerning trend has continued, with notable spikes occurring on anniversaries of the attack. On October 7, 2024, the University of California Davis SJP shared a quote from deceased Hamas spokesperson Abu Obaida celebrating the attack as “the most successful and professional commando operation of the modern era.” California State University Northridge’s SJP chapter similarly reposted a video of Abu Obaida’s anniversary speech.

The amplification extends beyond campus organizations. The Bronx Anti-War Coalition shared Hamas propaganda via Telegram in March 2025, including inflammatory content from antisemitic former rapper Jonathan Azaziah that celebrated the potential destruction of Israel with phrases like “we will sing; cheer; rejoice; and dance the night away… All over the corpse of the flesh-eating germ called Chosenstan.”

Unity of Fields, formerly known as Palestine Action US, has repeatedly shared terrorist propaganda from various sources. On the first anniversary of the October 7 attacks, the group distributed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) content featuring weapons and text appearing to support the Hamas attack. In July 2025, they shared a memorial post from Hamas’s military wing mourning Mohammed Deif, its deceased chief of staff.

During the 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel in June 2025, Unity of Fields enthusiastically shared Houthi media content that called for a “major world war.”

The circulation of Hamas propaganda glorifying attacks against the Israeli Defense Forces has become common among anti-Zionist circles. One notable example involved a Hamas poster depicting an Israeli tank under attack with an inverted red triangle—a symbol used to mark Israeli targets in Hamas propaganda. This image traveled from Hamas’s official Telegram channel through various activist networks, eventually reaching mainstream platforms with large audiences.

In July 2024, the City University of New York’s John Jay College SJP chapter shared Hamas al-Qassam Brigades graphics with the translated message “We are coming like thunder, making a time of glory” to its nearly 1,000 followers.

Beyond digital spaces, physical distribution of terrorist materials has occurred on college campuses. In March 2025, activists at Barnard College in New York distributed a document written by Hamas justifying the October 7 attack, alongside stickers depicting former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Commercial promotion of terrorist imagery has also been documented. In February 2024, Midnight Books in Los Angeles advertised “PFLP shirts” featuring quotes from the organization’s propaganda manual and images of armed individuals to its approximately 20,000 Instagram followers.

PFLP posters have become particularly widespread in anti-Zionist circles. In July 2025, Columbia4Palestine shared a 1970s PFLP poster to its Instagram account. Similar content has appeared on the social media accounts of student groups at the University of Washington and Georgia State University.

Individual activists with significant social media followings have further amplified this content. One activist with 62,000 Twitter followers shared a PFLP poster featuring a gun overlooking Jerusalem in August 2025, while a contributor to the anti-Zionist outlet Electronic Intifada shared PFLP content glorifying Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to more than 137,000 followers.

This systematic amplification of terrorist messaging represents a concerning trend as the conflict in the Middle East continues to evolve.