Palestine News Network (PNN)

Key Points

• Palestine News Network (PNN) consists of a group of individuals who engage in aggressive and provocative street interviews with people, often Jews, regarding their stance on Palestine. 
• These exchanges, which are often antagonizing or mocking, are shared on PNN social accounts to over 200,000 followers across platforms, though that reach fluctuates as accounts are removed. PNN alleges that before some of its content was deplatformed, it generated over 100 million views on TikTok and Instagram combined. 
• PNN social media accounts also post content that celebrates terror attacks and other violence against Israelis, and venerates terror groups and leaders. 
• PNN emerged after the Hamas-led terror massacre of October 7, 2023.

Recent Activity

• PNN continues to be antagonistic to the Jewish community, going so far as to harangue individuals outside of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles in videos posted March 24, 2026, asking them what their stance was on the “Palestinian Holocaust”.
• PNN posts primarily on “free speech” platform Upscrolled, launched in June 2025, amid account removals on other social media platforms. The group continues to post across social media from other accounts.

Introduction

Palestine News Network (PNN) creates confrontational street videos by approaching strangers — often Jewish people — in public to ask them antagonizing questions about Palestine. 

PNN associates have a history of targeting neighborhoods with significant Jewish populations, Jewish establishments, and Jewish or pro-Israel events to film these confrontational encounters.

As of April 2026, PNN operates several social media accounts, including on TikTok (over 2,200 followers, though these accounts are frequently taken down), YouTube (34,000 followers, but the account has been demonetized), X (105,000 followers), and Upscrolled (60,000 followers). PNN accounts on Instagram and TikTok are routinely removed.

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A screenshot of PNN’s YouTube channel. 

In addition to street confrontations, PNN accounts also post content celebrating the deaths of Israelis in terror attacks, including on October 7, 2023, and express support for terror groups like Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

On social media, PNN has trafficked in rhetoric that contains antisemitic tropes, including posting the ”Happy Merchant” meme, denying Jewish historical connections to Israel, alleging the U.S. is ”run by Jews,” and reposting content that the U.S.-Israel war against Iran is a result of ”Jewish greed.”

One PNN affiliate has also posted memes of religious Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers, emphasizing their physical appearance and including oversized teeth. On February 18, 2026, Essa Ejelat, AKA PNN NYC posted an Instagram story reply to a question about his thoughts on Jewish people. The reply reads, “I love Jewish people I don’t consider Zionist [sic] real Jews.”

PNN also engages with other accounts and influencers who are notorious for antisemitic content, including Sneako, Ian Carroll,  and Jake Shields.

PNN posts are often shared widely by popular anti-Israel figures, including JVP Rabbinical Council member Rabbi David Mivasair, Maram Susli, better known by her X handle “Syrian Girl”, a 9/11 truther and a known source of disinformation on Syria, antisemitic conspiracy theorist and UK-based rapper Lowkey, and notorious disinformation source Sulaiman Ahmed. 

The group has drawn criticism from pro-Israel advocates and others for its overly aggressive tactics.

Harassment of Elderly Jews and October 7 Survivors

PNN targets have included October 7 survivors, elderly Jewish Americans, members of the Jewish community, and others going about their daily lives.

PNN associates have approached survivors of the Nova Music Festival — where some 350 people were killed on October 7, 2023 — at U.S. memorials on multiple occasions. In Los Angeles in November 2024, they asked attendees and passersby outside an event hosted by the Nova Exhibition if they supported “the death of innocent children and babies, that they’re killing”, and chanted “free Palestine” at them. The following month, they accosted a survivor of the Nova festival massacre outside the Museum of Tolerance, questioning whether he had actually been shot at the festival. PNN has described the Nova rave as having taken place next to a “Gaza Concentration Camp.”

The group has also set its sights on elderly Jewish people and Jewish or pro-Israel events. PNN co-founder Ramsey Aburdene filmed himself approaching an elderly couple arriving at an Israeli embassy event in Washington D.C., telling them, "Israel is going down the tubes, just like you two.” The post is dated November 29, 2024.

The next month, at a Friends of the IDF gala in Los Angeles, PNN associates filmed attendees and called them “baby killers.” 

In February 2026, PNN associate Essa Ejelat attempted to enter the 92nd Street Y’s State of World Jewry Address, yelling at attendees, "America first or Israel first, you dirty fucking Zionist."

PNN has also collaborated with openly antisemitic figures. Ejelat has filmed with Erik Warsaw, including in a February 2026 video in which the two drove to the “Zionist neighborhood” of Fieldston, a heavily Jewish area in the Bronx, blasting "Boom, Boom, Tel Aviv" — an AI-generated antisemitic song that went viral in 2025. Warsaw punctuated the trip by performing the "Happy Merchant" antisemitic caricature on camera, to Ejelat's amusement.

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Eric Warsaw, also known as Arjusz Roszkowski, is an antisemitic and anti-Israel social media influencer.

Warsaw, also known as Arjusz Roszkowski, is an antisemitic and anti-Israel social media influencer. He routinely engages in Holocaust denial and antisemitic tropes and has platformed at least one well-known antisemite, Ken O’Keefe, on his social media. He claims his rise to popularity as a content creator followed an October 8, 2023, TikTok livestream during which he railed against a "group called Zionists, they control our media, they control our Congress, they control everything,” and accused them of “lying and twisting the story and making themselves like the victimhood [sic]” following the October 7 terror massacre.

PNN associates also blasted the “Boom, Boom Tel Aviv” song, composed by antisemitic influencer Lucas Gage, outside a kosher restaurant in Los Angeles in a July 2025 video that’s branded with the group’s logo. The lyrics include “this is what you get for all your evil deeds… you were mocking dead kids but now you’re getting hit… Iranian missiles have your entire sky…”

PNN is perhaps best known for accosting strangers at outdoor eateries. In Beverly Hills in October 2024, PNN associates yelled at a man trying to eat that he was a "baby killer and war criminal" with a "triangle on top of his head" — a reference to the inverted red triangle, a Hamas symbol used in its propaganda videos to show an Israeli military target. They also yelled generally at people that Israel is a “Rothschild state,” not a Jewish state.

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In Los Angeles in December 2024, PNN approached two men, one of whom was wearing a yellow pin and badgered them about their stance “on Palestine.” In the edited video of the encounter, PNN briefly flashes an inverted red triangle over the hostage pin. 

In a separate February 2026 incident, also in Beverly Hills, a PNN associate antagonized a group of Persian Jews, mocking them for their concerns about Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini. “It's always Persian Jews crying about Khamenei…Why are you guys crying about Khamenei all the time?”

In May 2024, in Washington D.C., Aburdene targeted U.S. Congressman Brian Mast (R-FL), a U.S. Army veteran and staunch supporter of Israel, asking where his legs went and if he had a red triangle “go over his head.” Mast lost both of his legs in combat in Afghanistan.

Leadership and Associates

A number of individuals claim to be PNN co-founders, though among the most prominent are Ramsey Aburdene and David Wolf, both of whom have expressed support for Hamas and routinely celebrate violence targeting Israel.

Aburdene, who goes by Abu Rahss on social media, is a rapper and the founder of the Forest Hills Tenleytown Music Group (FHTMG). Approximately 10 years ago, he produced a hip-hop music video in North Korea. He also uses the FHTMG Instagram to promote PNN. A 2014 article in The Guardian described Aburdene as an investment banker, though more recent publications do not refer to Aburdene in this way.

Aburdene explicitly supports the October 7 terror attacks and terror leaders such as Sinwar. He says he’s told people for years to “stop condemning Hamas.”

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Ramsey Aburdene (forefront) in a music video.

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A post from Aburdene's Facebook page depicting Hamas terrorists with the text, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has,” published on October 10, 2023.

Wolf is a Jewish man from New Jersey and an extreme anti-Zionist. He notably had his Star of David tattooed over with a Palestinian flag and often joins Aburdene at events. Wolf posted that they tried (unsuccessfully) to enter the November 2024 Stand Together event in Washington, D.C., honoring the first anniversary of the October 7 terror attacks, which they referred to as the “Stand Together Nuremberg bash”.  Wolf celebrates Hamas leadership, such as former spokesperson Abu Obaida and Yahya Sinwar and lauds Hezbollah attacks against Israel.

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An Instagram post by David Wolf reading “Happy Veterans Day” with an image of Hamas spokesperson Abu Obaida, November 2024.

Additional leaders and supporters include Dr. Pressure, also known as Abdulrahman Abed, of Los Angeles, a frequent, vocal, and enthusiastic PNN booster who occasionally assists with filming. He has posted on his Instagram that “there is absolutely no such thing as 'innocent Israeli''" and claimed that Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks.

Another PNN associate, Essa Ejelat of New York, harasses people he perceives to be Zionists or supporters of Israel and films those interactions. 

Yoseph Haddad, an Arab Israeli and pro-Israel activist, accused Ejelat of assaulting him at a protest at Columbia in April 2024. On January 8, 2026, PNN posted a video of Ejelat assaulting Haddad, captioning it, “that time PNN NYC @pnn.nyc gave @yosephhaddad a bloody lip 🤩.” Ejelat has also been arrested at least twice for his alleged unlawful behavior at protests. Ejelat has increasingly posted overtly antisemitic content, including a repost of a link to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. On a podcast episode with Erik Warsaw, Ejelat asked They say America is a Christian nation, why is it run by Jews?”

Fernando Islas is another PNN associate, based in the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. In a November 2025 video posted to X, he was seen shouting “long live Hamas” at people in Beverly Hills. The post was captioned, “East LA 🇲🇽 Native tells Beverly Hills zios “Long Live Hamas!”

Shane Farrington, a New York-based associate, occasionally films himself approaching Jewish families attending synagogue or in the street to ask their opinion on Palestine. Farrington typically opens these encounters by identifying himself as Jewish. The individuals often appear visibly uncomfortable being filmed. 

Platform Ban Evasions and Merchandise Sales

Though PNN accounts are frequently deplatformed from mainstream social media, their members circumvent these bans by creating new and/or affiliated accounts.

In January 2026 X posts, PNN claimed to have had 27 accounts banned between TikTok and Instagram. They use numerous personal accounts to share content as backups when the main PNN account is removed. Since ”free speech” platform Upscrolled was launched  in June 2025, PNN has been using it as its new “world HQ.” As of April 2026, they appear to publish videos there first, while continuing to post on other platforms. 

PNN claims no revenue from its social media presence. 

A TikTok page called “Gasrow, LLC” sells PNN merchandise on its TikTok shop. 

PNN claims all proceeds go to Southeast DC and Palestine. 

Abed (Dr. Pressure LA) also has PNN subscriptions listed on his TikTok pages, which range in cost from around $5 to as high as $89. The subscription includes PNN stickers and increased access to PNN creators.

It is unclear how many people subscribe to these options or if Abed shares that money with PNN.