A Hamas-affiliated organization has listed American activist Linda Sarsour as a featured participant at an upcoming conference in Istanbul, Turkey, though she has denied accepting any invitation or planning to attend.

The Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad (PCPA), which Israel designated as a Hamas front group in 2021, announced in a September 24 statement that Sarsour was “expected to participate” in its upcoming “Palestinian National Forum for Dialogue” scheduled for November.

The conference, to be held in Istanbul, will reportedly focus on what organizers describe as “escalating waves of Judaization, uprooting, and annexation” in Palestinian territories and “Israel’s genocidal war.”

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In response to inquiries from the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF), Sarsour denied any involvement with the event or the group.

“This is misinformation and I will not be attending this conference,” she said in an email.

Sarsour also said she was unaware that her name had been included in the group’s announcement until she was contacted by the outlet.

Sarsour, a long-time activist and former co-chair of the Women’s March, has been politically active in New York and nationally.

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She has been a vocal supporter of New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist and candidate for mayor of New York City.

So proud of @ZohranKMamdani. He’s leading so far but no matter what happens he’s a winner and made our community so proud. Let’s do this fam! https://t.co/UQIf8aayXU

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) June 24, 2020

The two have appeared at multiple campaign and advocacy events together since at least 2020, with Sarsour emerging as a prominent figure in Mamdani’s political base.

Both Sarsour and Mamdani have faced criticism over their rhetoric surrounding the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.

Following the massacre, Mamdani attributed the violence to “occupation” and “apartheid” in posts that did not condemn Hamas directly.

On the second anniversary of the attacks, he referred to the assault as a “horrific war crime” but continued to emphasize criticism of Israel’s military response. Sarsour, for her part, has publicly rejected accusations of supporting Hamas or endorsing violence, saying she opposes “hate” within the pro-Palestinian movement.

Recent polling shows him leading the field in the November mayoral election following his victory in the Democratic primary.

The PCPA did not respond to inquiries from reporters about its invitation list or its designation by Israel as a terrorist-linked organization.

When labeling the group a Hamas proxy in 2021, Israel’s foreign ministry released documents it said showed “high-ranking, well-known Hamas members working in the PCPA.”

Among the documents was a letter from deceased Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh praising the organization’s efforts to expand Hamas’s international influence.

“The organization operates under the pretense of civilian cover and is responsible, on behalf of Hamas, for mobilizing actions against Israel, including violent demonstrations, marches against Israel, and demonstration and provocation flotillas,” the ministry said at the time.

The PCPA has also been linked to recent pro-Palestinian activities, including a flotilla event near Gaza that involved climate activist Greta Thunberg, according to Israeli officials.

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A Wednesday statement from the group expressed support for the recent ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump, which led to the release of multiple Israeli hostages.

The PCPA credited the outcome to “the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance.”

Names of several individuals with reported ties to Hamas appeared alongside Sarsour’s in the PCPA’s conference announcement.

One listed speaker, Hisham Abu Mahfouz, a PCPA leader, posted photos of himself in January 2023 alongside Ahmed Abd al-Hadi, Hamas’s representative in Lebanon.

Another image from January 2024 showed him at a meeting where posters depicted figures from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Another announced guest is Munir Shafiq, a former leader of the Jihad Brigades, a militant group responsible for attacks in Israel during the 1980s, according to the Leibniz Institute of European History.

Also listed is Wadah Khanfar, a former Al Jazeera executive, who was described by Arabic media in 2011 as a senior Hamas official.

According to reporting from The Guardian, Khanfar is also the brother of a “Hamas activist” in Jenin.

Sarsour maintains that she had no knowledge of the event or the organization’s use of her name.

The PCPA has not publicly clarified how she came to be listed among its expected attendees.

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