Two reported Palestinian terrorists who will be featured speakers at an upcoming conference in Detroit.
Hossam Shaheen, who was released in February by Israel with other Palestinian terrorists in return for Israel hostages, will speak at the People’s Conference for Palestine, which calls him “A Palestinian writer known for capturing the complexities of life in captivity.” He was arrested by Israel in 2004; according to Israel National News, Shaheen “was sentenced to 22 years for shooting attacks targeting Israeli vehicles and was involved in throwing a hand grenade at a Border Police jeep, and was also involved in a conspiracy to send a suicide bomber to Jerusalem.”
???? A terrorist released as part of a ransom in exchange for October 7 Massacre hostages is going to be speaking at a conference in Detroit
Hossam Shaheen will be speaking at the upcoming People’s Conference for Palestine, but he’s not just a writer???? pic.twitter.com/G9KdRr19kg
— Michael Starr (@StarrJpost) August 19, 2025
“The Prime Minister’s Office announced in 2002 that four members of the Jebl Mukaber Martyrs’ Brigade cell admitted that Shaheen had recruited them into the terrorist organization and supplied them weapons for two failed Jerusalem terrorist attacks,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
More rabid antisemitic speakers have been added to the list at the People’s Conference in Michigan at the end of the month.
People tied to Muslim Brotherhood Organizations, Congress members, antisemitic influencers, the guy who hunts down IDF soldiers who leave Israel.
And many… https://t.co/yoziuX0tQo pic.twitter.com/rRDBFfCXNs
— Angela Van Der Pluym (@anjewla90) August 17, 2025
Omar Assaf, who was reportedly an official in the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) terrorist group, will also speak. Members of the DFLP committed the infamous Ma’alot massacre in 1994, in which 21 children were murdered. Assaf is currently the coordinator of the executive committees of the Palestinian Popular Conference, which “praised the Gazan attackers and promised to build upon the achievements of the terrorist attack,” the day after the Hamas October 7 massacre, the Post noted, adding, “The previous year also courted terrorists as speakers, with Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) member Wisam Rafeedie speaking remotely after being denied a visa.”
“Also expected to speak is Abu-Bakr Abd, a Gazan journalist who fled the Gaza Strip and is affiliated with Iranian propaganda outlets and Hamas,” VIN News reported. “Abd, a writer for Iran’s PressTV and other Palestinian websites, has publicly expressed admiration for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, justified executions carried out by the terrorist organization, and even expressed regret that he had not participated personally in terrorist attacks.”
Viciously anti-Israel Michigan Democrat Rep. Rashida Talib will also speak at the conference.