Pro-Palestinian activists reject the two-state solution at protests

Key Points:

• Anti-Israel protests took place worldwide this weekend, with activists openly calling for a single state called "Palestine" encompassing modern-day Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, granting equal rights to Palestinians and Jews and effectively ending Israel as a Jewish nation-state.
• Three prominent anti-Israel leaders—Hatem Abudayyeh, Miko Peled, and Sam Husseini—explicitly endorsed the one-state solution, including the Palestinian "right of return," and rejected the long-standing two-state solution.
• Protesters and affiliated groups, including socialist and communist organizations funded by tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, have built a powerful infrastructure to amplify slogans like "Free Palestine" and the vision of one democratic, secular state.
• The activists frame Israel as a "racist, Zionist, apartheid state" and liken their struggle to the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, while Israeli officials reject these characterizations and maintain Israel's identity as a Jewish state with equal rights for all citizens.
• Some leaders propose renaming the country "Palestine" or even "1948," symbolizing the year of Israel's founding and the Palestinian Nakba, reflecting a radical reimagining of the region's political future.