If you had any doubts about the true agenda of the “pro-Palestine” movement, just consider last weekend’s annual People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit.
It was a gathering of martyrdom fetishists, Hamas supporters and antisemites, all bathing in an atmosphere of hate, rage and despair as they condemned Israel but reserved their deepest scorn for the United States.
The focus was a kind of patriotism and love of country — for Palestine. No American flags were in sight, though a prominent “Glory to Our Martyrs” banner kept everyone mindful of their ultimate duty to the cause.
Speakers vied to outdo one another in their fury at Israel, America, the West and Jews.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) used her favorite “M-word” to whoops and applause, telling the crowd, “I wanna say to every genocide enabler, look at this room motherf—-ers, we ain’t going anywhere!”
America, the potty-mouthed pol explained, was built on “slavery, genocide, rape and oppression.”
Among her big ideas: “Keep AIPAC out of US politics!” — though the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is an American organization funded entirely by Americans; the lobbyists and “activists” relying on foreign funding and anti-American priorities would be AIPAC’s critics.
Aisha Nizar of the Palestinian Youth Movement called for interrupting the “supply chains of death that we can intervene in and must intervene in” to disrupt, for example, the construction of F-35 combat planes.
Nidal Jboor, an MD who spoke of his dedication to life and love, also insisted that “Jewish supremacists” be “taken out, neutralized.” Jewish supremacists? “We know who they are,” the loving doctor assured the crowd.
Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University protest organizer, explained that Hamas — the rapist child-burners and rabid Islamists, though of course he didn’t spell that out — is the model for action against the worldwide “Zionist genocidal project.”
Another star list of the lunatic left, podcaster Hasan Piker, urged the crowd to motivate themselves through “spite for the worst people in the world, like Michael Rappaport and Amy Schumer.”
If resenting the social-media posts of a couple of C-list actor/comedians are how you fire up your base, either your cause is off-center or your followers are emotionally unstable.
In all, the People’s Conference for Palestine wasn’t much different in tone than what the “river to the sea” gang offers on any given day — except that so much unhinged rage, gathered in one room, nicely exposed what a toxic stream of filth this movement truly is.