Lylla Younes

Lylla Younes [Layla Bazzi] has expressed support for terrorism and promoted hatred of Israel. She has been an organizer with Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG), an anti-Israel and anti-American activist group that glorifies terrorists by sharing “political education materials” about them and also calls for the “complete dismantling of ‘Israel.’”

As of May 2024, Younes was also an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), a national pro-terror activist group.

As of May 2024, Younes had been an organizer with WAWOG, which describes itself as a “coalition of media, cultural, and academic workers who…organize against Zionism and American empire from within the imperial core.”

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. Zionism is a core part of the identity of most Jews.

WAWOG was founded [00:30:10] after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel when terrorists murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis. One of WAWOG’s listed principles of unity was “the right to resist” in “support of the Palestinian right to armed resistance as part of the national liberation struggle.” WAWOG’s second listed principle defended the “complete dismantling of ‘Israel,’” while the last principle aimed to “build a revolutionary cultural front.”

Younes is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

In May 2024, Younes said [00:32:05] she had recently “occupied” the lobby of the “imperial tabloid the New York Times,” having “blockaded” its press.

As of September 2024, Younes’s LinkedIn profile said she had been a staff writer for environmental investigations at Grist since August 2022.

As of the same date, Younes’s X page said she was “teaching” at the City University of New York (CUNY). She was listed online as teaching courses in data journalism at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism during the fall of 2024. Younes’s LinkedIn said she had been an adjunct professor there since January 2020.

CUNY is located in New York, New York.

As of September 2024, Younes’s LinkedIn said she graduated from Cornell University (Cornell) with a bachelor’s degree in information technology in 2017. Cornell is located in Ithaca, New York.

Younes went by the name “Layla Bazzi” at an anti-Israel event in May 2024.

On May 25, 2024, BreakThrough News uploaded a video to YouTube featuring Younes speaking at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, Michigan. She spoke on a panel titled: “Every Time the Media Lies.” The conference was co-organized by PYM and was held during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists, launched after Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023.

In her speech, Younes said [00:33:39]: “We also do political education. This is very important as well to normalize armed struggle.”

Younes also signed on to WAWOG’s October 26, 2023 “Statement of Solidarity.”

The statement said: “We come together…to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine. We stand with their anticolonial struggle for freedom and for self-determination, and with their right to resist occupation.”

Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” is a euphemism for nationalistic terror and is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and antisemitic violence.

The statement also condemned media outlet’s “perversion of meaning” when describing “Hamas’s attack on Israel as ‘unprovoked.’”

On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation.

Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” As of November 10, 2023, approximately 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.

A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.

For more information on the October 7, 2023 terror attacks, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.

Lylla Younes’s Support for Terrorism

Lylla Younes’s Hatred of Israel

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