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Marcela Mitaynes
Marcela Mitaynes is a politician with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), an organization that has expressed support for terrorism, praised America's enemies and spread anti-Semitism.
Marcela Mitaynes was arrested in her political activism in 2020. She has also promoted hatred of America and Israel, engaged in anti-Israel activism and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Mitaynes has been a DSA activist since at least 2019. She expressed support for 2025 New York mayoral candidate and DSA member Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani's anti-America and far-left activist network, which includes the DSA, helped him win the 2025 Democratic Party primary. He won the general election in November 2025.
DSA's ideology includes anti-American and abolitionist elements. DSA justified Hamas murdering 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023. Notable members are activist Linda Sarsour and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.
As of August 2025, Mitaynes was listed on the New York State Assembly website as an assemblymember for the 51st assembly district, which includes Red Hook, Sunset Park and northern Bay Ridge neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York.
On January 13, 2024, during Israel's war against Hamas terrorists and their allies and while Mitaynes was a DSA activist, the group posted on X: "DSA demands an immediate and permanent cessation of hostilities by the US against Yemen and an end to military support of Israel..."
Following the outbreak of Israel’s 2023 war against Hamas, Houthi terrorists attacked commercial ships off Yemen’s Red Sea coast and launched missiles into southern Israel. Like Hamas, the Houthi movement is backed by Iran, and is designated as a terror group by the United States, Saudi Arabia and other countries.
The Houthi slogan reads: “God is the Greatest / Death to America / Death to Israel / A Curse Upon the Jews / Victory to Islam.”
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
On October 9, 2023, two days after Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, DSA posted on Instagram a statement that said [slide 1]: "DSA is steadfast in expressing our solidarity with Palestine. / Today’s events are a direct result of Israel’s apartheid regime—a regime that receives billions in funding from the United States. / End the violence. End the Occupation. Free Palestine."
“Free Palestine” is a chant that has been described as a "battle cry for the death of Jews.” In May 2025, two Israeli diplomats in Washington, D.C., were murdered by a gunman shouting “Free Palestine!” In June 2025, one pro-Israel activist was killed and over 25 were injured in Boulder, Colorado, when a man yelling “Free Palestine” firebombed them.
The statement further read [slide 2], referring to Hamas' October 7, 2023 terror attack: "...This was not unprovoked. / For over 60 years, Palestinians have faced ethnic cleansing, torture, bombings, and housing demolitions. Gaza is still under a blockade."
Israel and Egypt implemented a UN-approved [pp. 39–41] joint blockade of the Gaza Strip in 2011 to stop Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets. Hamas went around the blockade by smuggling weaponry through tunnels under the Philadelphi corridor separating Gaza from Egypt.
On November 2, 2024, while Mitaynes was a DSA activist, the group posted on X: "Cuba’s resilience is legendary, but the U.S. blockade’s toll is relentless...Join our campaign to stand with Cuba..."
On October 22, 2020, DSA posted on X: "Russia is not the problem. China is not the problem. The problem is a global system of capitalism..."
On March 11, 2024, while Mitaynes was a DSA activist, the group posted on X: "'For decades, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has been a hawkish, warmongering, and bullying force in U.S. politics.'"
The stated mission of AIPAC is to “strengthen, protect and promote the U.S.-Israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the United States and Israel.”
The implication that AIPAC buys political support for Israel has been described as playing into “anti-Semitic tropes” that led to “centuries of stereotypes about Jews using money to control the world.”
On October 1, 2020, Mitaynes posted on X a photo of her arrest and wrote: "We were arrested while peacefully protesting for an #EvictionFreeNY..."
On September 27, 2024, while Mitaynes was a DSA activist, the group posted on X: "...Biden, Harris, and Netanyahu are all war criminals. Until we win an arms embargo every action of the U.S. war machine must be disrupted."
On October 25, 2023, DSA posted on X, referring to America: "The best tool we have to fight empire is a mass, resilient socialist organization..."
On March 22, 2022, DSA posted on X, referring to the U.S.: "Bringing the fight to win a union to the belly of the beast..."
On May 14, 2020, Mitaynes posted on X: "While 30 million Americans filed for unemployement, the wealthy have seen their fortunes skyrocket everyday...Billionaires shouldn’t exist, period..."
On May 20, 2024, during Israel's war against Hamas terrorists, Mitaynes posted on X, accusing Israel of "carrying out...genocide in Gaza."
On the same date, Mitaynes posted on X, accusing Israel of "settler violence" and "assault on Gaza."
On the same date, Mitaynes posted on X, accusing Israel of committing "war crimes."
On April 23, 2024, Mitaynes posted on X, referring to Columbia's pro-Hamas encampment: "We support the right of students to protest the war being waged against the Palestinian people..." The encampment was also in support of the BDS movement.
There were over 200 pro-Hamas and anti-Israel college encampments set up in North America, and over 20 more globally, in the spring of 2024. The first began on April 17, 2024, at Columbia University. The encampments were unofficially known as the “student intifada,” borrowing a term associated with terrorist violence.
Protesters harassed Jewish students, blocked Jews from campus facilities and shouted anti-Semitic slogans. They occupied campus grounds, in many cases illegally, caused property damage, violently took over buildings, celebrated terrorism and promoted the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Activists set up encampments to oppose Israel’s right to wage war against the Hamas terror group following October 7, 2023, when Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 people, including 32 American and 8 Canadian citizens. Hamas also kidnapped 252 people, including 11 Americans and the bodies of 2 murdered Canadians.
In November 2023, Mitaynes co-signed a letter condemning Columbia for suspending anti-Israel campus groups Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), which had expressed support for Hamas' October 7, 2023 terror attacks.
On June 11, 2025, Mitaynes shared on X a link to a Politico article titled: "Mamdani surges in new poll, leading Cuomo for first time in New York mayor's race," and wrote: "Let’s build a New York City we all deserve, together."
On June 4, 2025, Mitaynes posted on X: "Zohran showed us tonight that he is the candidate who can lead our city..."
On May 30, 2024, Mitaynes posted on Instagram, expressing support for the "Not on Our Dime Act," a bill introduced into the New York State Assembly in May 2023 by Mamdani.
The bill titled: "Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence act" would prohibit New York-registered charities from donating to organizations that support Israeli activity in the West Bank.
On November 29, 2022, Mitaynes posted on X: "Once again, my friend Zohran is speaking nothing but facts..."
On July 17, 2020, Mitaynes posted on X: "We won yesterday and celebrated! Now it’s time to get back to work 
/ @ZohranKMamdani needs in person volunteers to help with sorting through thousands of ballots! Go support Zohran to ensure our slate can sweep this election!"
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is America’s largest socialist organization. Its core ideology includes anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-Western and abolitionist elements.
Following the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks against Israel, DSA condemned Israel, expressed support for Hamas, endorsed anti-Israel rallies and called for members to engage in anti-Israel activism. It condemned Israeli retaliatory attacks against the IRGC and Hezbollah, as well as the U.S. attacks against the Houthi terror organization, whose slogan reads: "...Death to America / Death to Israel / A Curse upon the Jews...”
DSA first endorsed the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement in 2017 and it has also condemned sanctions against countries like Iran and Cuba.
The group endorses far-left politicians on the local, state and federal levels. DSA also promotes anti-Israel agitators, including DSA members Rashida Tlaib, Zohran Mamdani and Linda Sarsour.
Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), DSA’s youth section active in high schools and colleges, has co-organized anti-Israel protests across the U.S. since October 7, 2023, particularly the April 2024 pro-terror encampments on university campuses.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
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