Rep Rashida Tlaib launches anti-Israel tirade at conference where US was branded an ‘evil country’

DETROIT, MICHIGAN: Rep Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) launched an anti-Israel tirade at a pro-Palestinian conference in Detroit over the weekend, dropping f-bombs and riling up the crowd.

The second annual People’s Conference for Palestine was held August 29 to 31 and saw a lineup of activists, including Twitch streamer Hassan Piker, Green Party presidential candidate Dr Jill Stein, and a slew of anti-Israel organizers.

While organizers tried to tone down some of the violent rhetoric that marred last year’s event, the three-day gathering still featured plenty of anti-American soundbites that quickly made headlines.

Rashida Tlaib's expletive-ridden anti-Israel rant

Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American in Congress, amped up the crowd during her address.

“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. Well, guess what? Now we’re in Congress and we’re in every corner of the United States,” she declared.

“Y’all, they just don’t get it. They just don’t get it! They will never truly comprehend, even after seven decades, that we aren’t going anywhere. We are just getting started. I want to say to all of them, every genocide enabler: look at this room, motherf**kers. We ain’t going anywhere," Tlaib added.

The crowd roared in response, eating up the Michigan lawmaker’s stand.

Panelist calls the US an 'evil country'

But it wasn’t just Rashida Tlaib’s speech that raised eyebrows. Earlier panels delivered lines that made many do a double-take.

“We live in an evil country," one panelist, PhD student Sachin Peddada, flat-out told the audience.

Peddada, who was speaking on a panel titled “No Weapons for Genocide: The People Demand an Arms Embargo,” doubled down. “And, therefore, the thing to do is to destroy the idea of America in Americans’ heads so that they can see the humanity of everybody outside the warping of American exceptionalism and imperialism and all these evil things," he said.

Fox News quickly picked up the Friday session. “Pro-Palestinian conference panelist calls US ‘evil,’ urges ‘destroying the idea of America,’” the headline read.

Another speaker called to “continue to globalize the intifada,” leaving no doubt that the conference was still a hotbed of radical rhetoric.

Anti-Defamation League pushes back against pro-Palestinian conference

The three-day conference focused heavily on what organizers called a “genocide” in Gaza. With Israel preparing to move into Hamas strongholds in Gaza City, speakers hammered themes of resistance, destruction of infrastructure, and urgent calls for medical aid.

“We are facing another critical moment. Last night, Israel began its occupation of Gaza City and its plan to level the last inch of life in the strip,” MC Taher Dahleh said, warning that a new line of genocide was being crossed.

“The demands of the people are clear, and we must do everything in our ability, every single thing in our power to advance them. We demand a two-way arms embargo. We demand complete economic and political sanctions on Israel, on its military, and on its leadership. We demand the free flow of lifesaving humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. And we demand, most importantly, that this genocide ends now," he added.

The Anti-Defamation League wasted no time blasting the event. “This weekend’s People’s Conference for Palestine again promoted antisemitic tropes, glorified terror & violence, and called for Israel’s destruction. What’s deeply troubling: elected officials like Rep. Tlaib participated alongside two speakers affiliated with terrorist orgs,” the ADL said in a statement on X (formerly Twitter).

The organization added, “As we’ve seen recently, some media outlets—including mainstream ones—ignore the hateful rhetoric some of these individuals engage in and keep offering platforms and lionizing those who support violence against Jews. Let’s hope this event at least serves as a reminder.”

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