The following report, alongside the footage seen above, was sent to us anonymously:
“On Thanksgiving Thursday, 11/23/23, a day which commemorates genocide against indigenous Americans and European colonization, a prominent Zionist billboard was torn down in Southwest Houston. The billboard, which read “Pray for Isreal,” was shamelessly displayed during the month of October, while Isreal slaughtered innocent Palestinians by the thousands. The advertisement was removed by force, in solidarity with the struggle to free Palestine from decades of Isreali occupation and genocide.
While the waves of protests and actions opposing Israel’s ongoing attacks against Gaza are powerful and important, there is also room for a greater diversity of tactics in opposition to the state of Israel and their propaganda campaigns.
Printing and renting a billboard costs thousands of dollars, which has now been lost by the zionists who funded the advertisement. Most importantly, the ad itself is no longer visible to thousands of people who were forced to see it driving down interstate 59 South.
The ad has not been replaced, and these types of actions raise the risks for Zionist groups looking to propagandize in Houston.
Removing a billboard can be achieved with limited resources and helps damage the machinery of settler colonialism. It contributes direct material results to a larger movement of those who refuse to allow further violence against those displaced and harmed by Zionists and their supporters.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
