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Yaya Musa
Overview
Yaya Musa participated in a violent anti-Israel counterprotest on May 20, 2021, in Times Square in New York City.
In December 2021, Musa graduated from Onlybullish, a company that offered an in-person trading class.
As of May 2022, Musa used the handle “@DonYayo__” and username “yaya musa” on Twitter.
Musa participated [00:02:44] in a violent counterprotest against a pro-Israel rally in Times Square in New York City.
Musa can be seen [00:02:44] wearing a black shirt and clapping his hands, while protesters chanted: “be-ruh be-dam nifdik ya Aqsa!”
The chant: “Be-ruh, be-dam, nifdik ya Aqsa بروح ودم نفديك يا اقصى [With spirit, with blood, we will redeem you, Aqsa]” can be heard [00:01:14] at anti-Israel rallies [00:02:19] in America. Yasser Arafat popularized the chant [00:00:23], which is invoked by anti-Israel protesters regarding a variety of causes.
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.
At the rally, anti-Israel activists pushed against a police barricade erected to separate the two sides. They breached the barricade and then the anti-Israel activists marched toward the pro-Israel side where many verbally assaulted pro-Israel activists. Some anti-Israel activists approached the pro-Israel activists and stole their Israeli flags.
The anti-Israel activists then moved back to their side of the barricade, where they chanted [00:02:23]: “Nazis! Nazis!”
After demonstrators threw projectiles, police removed the barricade and proceeded to arrest several anti-Israel activists. Police declared that the “assembly is unlawful” and demanded the crowd disperse or be arrested. Despite police warnings, some rioters reportedly continued to throw projectiles at police while others fled the scene.
Police proceeded to arrest several anti-Israel activists while others fled the scene.
Police used bicycles to disperse the rioters and pursue a number of them. Some rioters overturned police barricades to create obstacles in the street. Others threw garbage bags filled with trash onto the street, while others dragged traffic barriers onto the street and overturned fencing.
Also on May 20, 2021, anti-Israel activists from the counter-protest violently attacked and reportedly yelled antisemitic slurs at Joseph Borgen, a Jewish man, who was heading to the pro-Israel rally. Police arrested two of the anti-Israel activists, charging them with assault as a hate crime, menacing as a hate crime and aggravated harassment as a hate crime. Other anti-Israel activists also shot fireworks and spat at people that same day.
On May 21, 2021, Within Our Lifetime (WOL), an anti-Israel activist group in New York City, posted on Instagram, portraying [slide 1] the rioters as victims and offering [slides 2-6] legal advice to anyone arrested.
Within Our Lifetime (WOL) is an anti-Israel activist group in New York City founded by Nerdeen Kiswani. In her WOL activism, Kiswani has called for the death of Zionists and for the destruction of Israel, spread incitement to violence and celebrated terrorists. WOL’s “Points of Unity” states: “We defend the right of Palestinians as colonized people to resist the zionist occupation by any means necessary.”
