Dan Cione
Overview
Cione is a founding member of Within Our Lifetime (WOL), an anti-Israel activist group in New York City founded and led by Nerdeen Kiswani. In 2020, Cione served as [00:11:31] WOL’s “Educational Officer.” Until February 2018, WOL was known as the New York City branch of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), going by NYC SJP.
Cione was the 2015 Vice President of the SJPchapter at Hunter College (Hunter), part of the City University of New York (CUNY). In 2016, Cione was reportedly the “Education Development Officer” of NYC SJP before it became WOL.
As of September 2022, Cione was listed as an alternate youth representative for the New York chapter of Al-Awda, another anti-Israel organization.
Cione is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of March 2023, Cione’s LinkedIn page said he has worked as a Staff Attorney at New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) since September 2021. He reportedly was admitted to the New York state bar in 2022.
As of the same date, Cione’s LinkedIn said he received a law degree from CUNY School of Law in 2021 and a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Hunter in 2016.
As of March 2023, publicly available online sources indicated Cione was located in Goshen, New York.
As of the same date, Cione used the handle “@cirin.cione” on Instagram.
May 20, 2021 - Joining a Violent Mob
Cione helped direct [00:00:17] a mob of rioters who attacked and spat on Jewish diners as well as [00:05:53] a mob that attempted to breach a police barrier during a violent counterprotest. He also fled [00:09:38] with other rioters and he evaded the police when officers arrested activists who failed to disperse after the New York Police Department (NYPD) declared the assembly unlawful.When Cione helped direct [00:00:17] a mob who attacked and spat on Jewish diners at an outdoor restaurant, he could be seen in a Twitter video at the center of the screen, facing away from the camera. He wore a black short-sleeved t-shirt and a black and white-patterned keffiyeh wrapped around his neck. The Twitter video of the attack was posted on May 20, 2021.
At the counterprotest earlier that day, Cione joined [00:05:53] a mob that attempted to breach a police barrier, installed to separate pro-Israel and anti-Israel demonstrators. He wore the same outfit, with a light blue face mask and with a keffiyeh worn as a scarf around his neck.
At the time, police managed to keep the two groups apart.
However, anti-Israel activists later pushed against a police barricade erected to separate the two groups. The anti-Israel side breached the barricade and marched toward the pro-Israel side where they verbally assaulted the pro-Israel activists. Separate videos showed some anti-Israel activists also stealing Israeli flags from the pro-Israel activists.
The anti-Israel activists then moved back to their side of the barricade where some of them chanted at the Israel supporters: “Nazis! Nazis!”
Also that day, Cione appeared [00:58:54] in a video of the violent counterprotest, while standing [00:58:20] in the street behind a row of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who cursed, threatened [00:57:18] and taunted pro-Israel activists and police.
Later in the afternoon, Cione fled [00:09:38] the police when they proceeded to arrest activists after the assembly had been declared unlawful. Police had demanded that the crowd disperse or be arrested.
In Instagram posts the following day, WOL portrayed the assailants as victims and offered legal support to the arrested anti-Israel activists.
Promoting Intifada
On December 25, 2021, Cione appeared [slide 1] in a WOL post among other activists who held signs that said: “Defend Al-Aqsa. Defend Jerusalem. Defend Palestine,” as well as “Globalize the Intifada.”The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.
The term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” carries the connotation of violence. Palestinian intifadas waged against Israel have been marked since 1987 by hundreds of hijackings, shootings, stabbings, bombings and suicide missions.
On August 22, 2021, Cione appeared [slides 1 and 2] in a WOL Instagram post in a photo with other WOL activists behind a banner reading: “Globalize The Intifada.”
The WOL post said: “The resistance of the Palestinian people exemplified through the ongoing intifada, has been a source of inspiration for resistance movements around the world for decades... For the last several months we have been raising the call to globalize the intifada all over NYC…We want to elevate that call globally…”
The WOL post also contained a video of Cione [slide 2] on the right side of the screen, waving a Palestinian flag behind the same “Globalize The Intifada” banner.
Supporting Terrorists
On September 6, 2021, six Palestinian prisoners escaped from the maximum-security Gilboa Prison in Israel. The escaped prisoners were convicted members of the terror organizations Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, who were jailed for their involvement in attacks carried out during the second intifada. All were recaptured by September 19, 2021, by Israeli authorities.
In November 2017, Dan Cione participated in an SJP panel event alongside fellow NYC SJP members Nerdeen Kiswani and Noura Farouq at Florida State University (FSU). The event, titled “Feminism, Internationalism, Palestine: Live from Tallahassee, FL,” was posted on the Facebook page of FSU Students for Justice in Palestine.
During the panel, Cione condemned [00:25:36] the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for implementing [00:24:42] a “terror clause,” which he claimed precluded aid money from going to “anyone that… is a ‘terrorist organization’ as defined by Israel, or who does not recognize the right of Israel to exist..”
At the end of the panel, Cione chanted [01:48:59], alongside attendees and other panelists: “There is only one solution, intifada revolution!”
On May 25, 2017, Cione appeared raising his fist in an NYC SJP group photo behind an NYC SJP banner that said “Resistance until Return.” The photo was taken during a Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) event calling to support hunger-striking “Palestinian political prisoners.”
Disrupting Holocaust Events
The disruption was planned to protest the Council’s scheduled trip to Israel later in 2015. The demonstrators began their disruption as Council members were casting their vote on a resolution to honor the liberation of Auschwitz.
On September 11, 2015, Cione protested the performance of a play about the Holocaust at The City College of New York (CCNY) written by Iddo Netanyahu, the brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hatred of America and Israel
At a July 2020 rally in Queens, New York, Cione addressed a crowd as a WOL representative. He shouted into a microphone [00:00:01]: “From Palestine to the Philippines, stop the U.S. war machine!...”Cione later said [00:02:44]: “Israel doesn’t get to define what is terrorism after ethnically hunting Palestinians and occupying their land for over 72 years. The United States doesn’t get to define what is terrorism after condemning most of the world to a life of war, famine, genocide. The people who are killed… whose lives are dominated by imperialist exploitation get to define what terrorism is. And they say the United States… and Zionism are the real terrorists…”
Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture.
WOL
Within Our Lifetime (WOL) is a pro-terror activist group in New York City dedicated to Israel’s destruction within the lifetime of its members.Acts of violence and physical confrontations with police have frequently occurred at WOL protests and marches. WOL uses harassment campaigns to target pro-Israel organizations or companies that do business with Israel, making it a part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Multiple activists who have either burned Israeli flags or led chants at WOL rallies were later jailed for violent anti-Semitic hate crimes, including Saadah Masoud and Waseem Awawdeh. In Masoud’s case, he received 18 months in jail for an anti-Semitic assault at an April 2022 WOL rally and two other anti-Semitic assaults in 2021.
WOL promotes “resistance” against Israel “by any means necessary,” calls to “Globalize the Intifada,” spreads incitement and idolizes [00:34:06] Palestinian terrorists like Leila Khaled and others at rallies and online events.
WOL was founded by Nerdeen Kiswani and Dan Cione in 2015. Kiswani is a frequent speaker at WOL rallies where she has promoted terrorism against Israelis and called for the death of Zionists. She has also provided support for Masoud and other activists following their arrests.
WOL began as the New York City chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), going by NYC SJP, but changed its name in 2018. The group is not found to be registered in any U.S. state as a nonprofit organization under its official name. Nor is there any listing for WOL under its name on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website for tax-exempt organizations.
SJP
SJP is a student organization engaged in anti-Israel activity on North American college and university campuses.
The first chapter of SJP was founded in 2001 at the University of California at Berkeley by Professor Hatem Bazian. Bazian has spread classic anti-Semitism, reportedly promoted religious anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group. In 2004, Bazian called for “intifada” in America.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks, often in collaboration with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Muslim Students Association (MSA) campus chapters.
SJP has been a major force in pushing the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement on campuses. Chapters have initiated dozens of BDS resolutions in student governments, which have been proposed on or around Jewish holidays, a time when many Jewish students are off-campus.
SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, disrupted pro-Israel campus events and demonized pro-Israel campus organizations.
Chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for numerous terrorists and whitewashed terrorism.
BDS
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01] this is not true.
One of the demands of BDS includes [point 3] what is generally known as the “right of return,” a demand discredited as a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the “right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”
Barghouti has said that BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.”
In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55] regarding Israel: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”
The movement has been linked to numerous terrorist organizations and received a public endorsement from Hamas in 2017.
BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.
The movement’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments and student groups, backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of, or divestment from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.
Boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.
BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus. On one campus, when the student government debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats against those opposing it.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook: https://facebook.com/cirrincione.d [Deleted]https://www.facebook.com/dan.cione [Deleted]
Twitter:https://twitter.com/bciamhuman [Deleted]
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cirincion.e/ [Private]
- Status:
- Professional
- University:
- Hunter
- Organizations:
- Al-Awda,
- BDS,
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- Last Modified:
- 06/23/2025
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