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More From the People’s Conference for Palestine – HotAir

September 3, 2025
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Yesterday Ed wrote about Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s appearance at a Detroit gathering called the People’s Conference for Palestine. Her message was basically that Palestine had won in its war against Israel, if not on the ground in Gaza then at least with the youth of America.





The Detroit Democrat and only Palestinian-American in Congress said Sunday her colleagues in Congress are “scared” by protesters at their district offices and town hall attendees questioning U.S. arms sales to Israel. She said activists are “winning” outside of Washington, D.C., and encouraged them to continue mobilizing for Palestinian rights, boycotting companies that support Israel’s war and protesting the U.S. support of Israel.

“The tide is turning in a way that it can never be turned back,” Tlaib said. “Palestine will be free.”

Didn’t we hear this same triumphalist tone five years ago from Black Lives Matter? Haven’t heard much from them lately though. The tide did turn for about a year and then it quickly turned back as people realized defunding the police was a terribly stupid idea.

That’s what these left-wing populist movements create, a platform for dumb ideas to arise and then fail spectacularly. This one will be the same. The left will move on to some other cause in a few years and Palestine will get lip service and not much else. Here’s a Columbia student speaker at the event basically saying that the current Palestine movement is just a repackaging of Occupy and the BLM riots.





There were a lot of speakers at this weekend conference. Many of them seemed to be advocating for the destruction of the US as their preferred path forward. “We live in an evil county. That’s just what’s happening,” said Sachin Peddada — Research Coordinator for Progressive International.

Sitting next to him was Aisha Nizar of the Palestinian Youth Movement. She recommended a campaign of pressure aimed at sabotaging the US military’s F-35 fighter jet. “If one specific node of the F-35 supply chain is intervened in, it has a huge impact on our people back home,” she said.

She went on to propose targeting Maersk as a way to limit arms deliveries.





Not all of the conference was that practical. Some of it was just ideological programming. Here’s speaker Raja Abdulhaq explaining how the 1979 revolution in Iran inspired a wave of terrorist groups. He thinks this was a very good thing because it helped the region respond to western capitalism and individualism.

UCLA Professor Loubna Qutami praised the movement’s success and the “student uprising.”

And always America is the main villain in this story. Hani Al-Masri, speaking in Arabic, called America the head of the snake.





And part of that anti-American fervor comes because America is the land of capitalism and billionaires and this is a movement which is clearly taking cues from communism.

And of course left-wing meathead Hasan Piker was there.

He’s worked hard to downplay his own extremism, but here’s Mahmoud Khalil talking about revolution and victory, which in this case seems to mean the end of Israel’s existence. He got a big response.

It goes on and on like this. Kudos to Stu Smith from the Manhattan Institute who suffered through three days of this revolutionary cosplay. That can’t have been easy to take. Especially listening to this speaker:





But there’s no doubt these folks are having a moment right now, just as BLM did five years ago. It’s exhausting but ultimately it will fail in its goals. The only question is how much collateral damage it will do in the meantime.


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