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Jew haters had the bully pulpit last weekend at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit — where a pair of terrorists joined foul-mouthed speakers like “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib to push for the extinction of Israel.
“Every genocide enabler, look at this room motherf–ers — we ain’t going anywhere!” bellowed Tlaib (D-Mich.) to a cheering crowd attending the second annual conference held Aug. 29-31 at the Huntington Place convention center.
“They are just growing and growing and growing! We are bringing siblings from other movements with us.”
“They thought they could kill us, rape us, imprison us, violently uproot us from our olive tree farms, starve our children to death, and we would disappear,” added Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American elected to Congress.
“Well, guess what? Now we’re in Congress, and we’re in every corner of the United States.”
Nidal Jboor, a Michigan-based doctor and anti-Israel activist, was among a bevy of speakers who openly called for the murder of Jews.
“We all know who they are — whether they are in Israel, Tel Aviv, in Washington, in Germany, in Europe,” he said. “They need to be locked up. They need to be taken out. They need to be neutralized.”
The three-day event – which highlighted the growing extremism in the pro-Palestine movement — also featured two former prisoners released in recent hostage swaps who served as panelists: Hussam Shaheen and Omar Assaf.
Shaheen was sentenced by Israeli authorities to almost 30 years in prison in 2004 for murder and conspiracy to commit murder. He was released on Feb. 1 as part of a prisoner swap in exchange for living and dead hostages of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel.
Assaf was formerly an official of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which has been targeted by U.S. sanctions. However, he was introduced warmly as “a freed political prisoner” and “coordinator of the Popular Conference executive committee,” according to Stu Smith, an investigative analyst with the Manhattan Institute who shared video of the conference on X.
Former Black Panther and convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal also addressed the conference via a recorded message from prison, drawing cheers as he bizarrely compared his sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner to that of Palestinian “political prisoners.”
“When have you ever heard about Palestinians’ right to self-defense? Or the human right for all human beings to defend themselves, wherever they are on the planet Earth?” he said.
“They are fighting for their freedom against a government that has outlawed support for Palestine for political reasons.”
Other speakers included a long list of Hamas-sympathizing Jew haters, such as Columbia University agitator and terror fanboy Mahmoud Khalil; notorious activist Linda Sarsour, the former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York who is a top advisor and among the biggest supporters of socialist Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral campaign; University of California-Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian, who chairs American Muslims for Palestine; and controversial lefty influencer Hasan Piker, who has a vile history of calling Israelis “inbred” and claiming America “deserved 9/11.”
“The Palestinian liberation movement is winning,” declared Khalil. “It punctures the Zionist narrative and the propaganda that Israel depends on. . . . Our work is to strip that facade until Israel stands exposed as a pariah state.”
“I know when the people of Palestine are free, all of us are going to be free,” said Sarsour, who led the crowd in chants of “Free! Free Palestine!”
The Jewish Federation of Detroit said it was” deeply disturbed that the [conference] provides a platform to speakers advocating for the destruction of Israel.”
“This conference, which vilifies Zionism, the right to self-determination for the Jewish people, does nothing to advance peace and alarmingly escalates tensions – in Detroit, around the country, and abroad,” said the federation.
“We look forward to a day when peace between the Israeli people and the Palestinian people prevails and all people in the region can live without the threat of Hamas and other terrorist organizations responsible for the ongoing conflict.”
