In my talk, I will present a linguistic ethnographic study that offers a nuanced pedagogical understanding of the Arabic term ‘sumud,’ or steadfastness, through a sociolinguistic analysis of decolonial modes of expression among Palestinian youth in Israel. I reflect on events during the 2021 uprisings in East Jerusalem, when Palestinian youth within Israel took to the streets in solidarity with Palestinians in Jerusalem and Gaza. Considering the Israeli education system’s denationalization of the Palestinian community within its borders, I examine how Palestinian political ideals cultivated outside the formal educational system open new possibilities for political organizing and expression. I reflect upon conversations that I had shortly after the May events with members of the Haifa Youth Movement, and a Palestinian hip-hop artist known as Big Sam and his lyrics. Engaging with Stroud’s theorization of linguistic citizenship, I show how pedagogy of sumud as a linguistic citizenship practice opens new semiotic spaces for Palestinian youth in Israel to resist the erasure of their identity, and craft new subjectivities of political speakerhood different than those imposed on them.