BREAKING: Trump Admin Poised to Block Visas for Terror-Linked Speakers at Secretive ‘People’s Conference for Palestine’ — A Who’s Who of Global Jihad

The Second Annual “People’s Conference for Palestine,” scheduled for August 29–31 in Detroit, is not an innocent cultural gathering; it is a national security threat hiding behind secrecy. The organizers have refused to disclose the location to the public, reserving it only for “vetted” insiders. Now we know why.

The Trump administration confirmed Wednesday that it is moving to block visas for foreign terrorists and sympathizers slated to attend. A senior State Department official told the Washington Free Beacon that nearly 40 international speakers are being placed on a “look out” status to prevent entry, including convicted terrorists like Hussam Shaheen — who served 27 years in prison for attempted murder before being released in February’s hostage-exchange deal — and Omar Assaf, a former member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), a designated terrorist group.

They will be joined by radical propagandists such as Palestinian journalist Lama Ghosheh, convicted of praising terrorism and incitement; Gaza-based poet Mosab Abu Toha, who has openly justified Hamas’s hostage-taking on October 7; UC Berkeley professor Hatem Bazian, founder of Students for Justice in Palestine; infamous anti-Semite Linda Sarsour; and Mahmoud Khalil, an Algerian national tied to violent campus uprisings. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and Richmond, California, mayor Eduardo Martinez are once again lending legitimacy to the event.

This is not free speech; this is a convergence of Hamas sympathizers, foreign agitators, and elected officials working in concert to export their agenda into American communities, campuses, and even elementary schools.

Conference organizers have created a special track for kids ages 6–12, with activities branded as “Palestinian history, culture, and resistance.”

On Saturday, children will attend “story time,” be shown “Palestine on a map,” and learn to identify the “sounds of Palestine.”

On Sunday, they will participate in embroidery sessions, dabke workshops, and even a “Gaza movie theater.” Far from cultural education, these are tools of soft radicalization — planting the idea of “resistance” in the minds of the youngest attendees.

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Who is Behind the Conference? 

The organizations hosting include: 

1. Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), 
2. United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN),
3. The People’s Forum (TPF),
4. Al-Awda: The People’s Right to Return Coalition, 
5. Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC), 
6. Answer Coalition, 
7. United States Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), 
8. Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), 
9. People’s Center for Palestine (PCP),
10.  National Students for Justice in Palestine (National SJP), 
11. Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG), and 
12. Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC).

These organizations are known for their pro-Hamas protests held nationwide over the last two years, the college encampments, possible ties to terrorist organizations, and some of the founding members of these organizations are convicted PFLP terrorists, like USPCN’s Rasmea Odeh; who was deported from the United States in 2017 for lying on her visa application about her involvement in the 1969 Jerusalem bombing that resulted in the death of two civillians. 

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What is their Goal?

The theme this year is “Gaza is the Compass.”

On the conference website, they describe what this theme means:

“Gaza is the compass! This is our guiding principle for the Second Annual People’s Conference for Palestine. Gaza keeps our path true: it reminds us of our direction in the struggle and the sacrifices that have been made; it exposes the forces we must contend with on the path to victory, and it reveals the horizon of liberation. For this reason, Zionism and imperialism waged an ongoing genocide against Gaza and attempt to continue it through other means. With Gaza as our guide, we aim to convene at this critical phase to continue building and strengthening the mass movement in North America.” 

Their listed objectives are: 1) Respond to the genocide and starvation by documenting the genocide, demanding accountibilty, and mobilizing, 2) Engage in our ability and role to support the material needs and steadfastness of our people 3) ISOLATE AND EXPOSE ZIONISM (JEWS) BY MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO RECOVER ITS IMAGE AFTER THIS GENOCIDE and 4) Offer concrete tools and lessons for attendees to bring back their organizing locales and communities. 

Their entire premise is that “liberation” is the key; the attack on October 7th (the liberation) that resulted in the killing of 1200 Israelis and the kidnapping of over 200 people, including Americans, was justified and has nothing to do with why Israel is defending itself. The entire conference’s objective is to isolate “ZIonists”, aka Jews, from society just like the Nazi’s did in World War 2. They will mobilize their efforts to enforce this and distribute lessons and tools to share with their friends at home. The after effects of last year’s conference gave us encampments on college campuses, resulting in mass vandalism, attacks on students, and even a brief hostage situation of an employee on Columbia’s campus.

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Featured Speakers

1. Raja Abdulhaq

Listed as president of the Tamkeen Movement and the co-founder of the Quds News Network.  According to Canary Mission, Raja Abdulhaq has called for the destruction of Israel and America, defended the terror group Hamas, glorified terrorists, and whitewashed the 9/11 terror attacks. Abdulhaq has also compared Israel to Nazi Germany, encouraged violence, spread hatred of Zionists and Israel, and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

 2) Abubaker Abed

Abubaker Abed has family members who are allegedly part of the terror group, Islamic Jihad. On his X account, he has posted things like “Hamas didn’t attack any civilians and actually only attacked people who attacked them first.” He defended Hamas‘ extrajudicial executions. Abubaker praised Yahya Sinwar. Abubaker has incited people to “attack their governments” if they support Israel. He has posted about praying to Allah so that Allah may “Destroy America.” He covered the hostage releases in Gaza while standing next to Hamas. Lastly, he retweeted someone who said, ” No Zionists should be allowed on this planet. Period.”

3) Ghassan Abu Sitteh

Ghassan Abu Sitteh has been involved in many wars in a medical capacity; however, he was in Gaza just two days after the attack on 10/7 to treat patients who hadn’t even been attacked yet. He was placed in Al-Ahil Baptist Hospital. The same hospital that lied and claimed Israel attacked it and allegedly killed 500 Palestinians, when in fact it was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)  rocket that went off and backfired. Ghassan is the man who lied to the media about this attack by giving “testimony” to put the blame on Israel.

4) Mosab Abu Toha

In March 2025, Mosab Abu Toha was scheduled to speak in the United States. He cancelled because he “felt unsafe traveling after watching students and university professors abducted on the street in front of other people.” Mosab has described former Israeli hostages like Emily Damari and Agam Berger as “killers.” He has also denied that it was a PIJ rocket that hit Al-Ahil Baptist hospital; he claimed it was Israel.

5) Thaer Ahmed

Thaer Ahmed is a Chicago resident who “volunteered” in Gaza at Nassar hospital after the 10/7 attack on Israel. Nassar Hospital is known for harboring Hamas terrorists. In February 2024, the IDF found vehicles used by Hamas on October 7th, firearms, explosive devices, and other military equipment. Hundreds of Hamas operatives were detained during this operation. Thaer was allegedly at Nassar Hospital in January 2024 and claims he never saw a Hamas member. Thaer is also known for walking out of a meeting with Biden and Harris “out of respect for his community.”

6) Huwaida Arraf

Huwaida Arraf has been part of “sea voyages” to Gaza for almost 20 years, with her first trip in 2008, and she is now one of the primary organizers of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. According to the Washington Post, at a 2004 Palestine Solidarity Movement conference, “Huwaida Arraf distributed recruitment brochures and encouraged students to enlist in the ISM, which, she acknowledged, cooperates with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.” These are all terrorist organizations. She served as a lawyer to convicted PFLP terrorist Rasmea Odeh. According to Canary Mission, Huwaida has a long history of aligning with terrorists like Hamas, PLO, FTO, PFLP, etc.

7) Mousa Alsadah

Mousa Alsadah was banned from his home in the UAE because of his “activism, taking part in a local protest inspired by the Arab Spring.” He currently lives in Amsterdam. His mother is Nassima Al-Sadah. How does one get banned from going home to the UAE?

The UAE recently banned the Muslim Brotherhood and all of its affiliates.

7) Omar Assaf

“The PLO’s official website identifies Omar Assaf as a founder of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) terrorist group. The DFLP participated in the October 7 massacre and the ongoing war against Israel.”- Israel War Room. According to an article written in 1997, Omar has a long history of being opposed to a peace process with Israel, “Palestinian sources say Palestinian police have arrested opposition faction leader Omar Assaf for his alleged involvement in a 3-week-old teachers’ strike in the West Bank. Assaf is considered a major figure in the Syria-based Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine which is opposed to the peace process with Israel.”

8) Nora Barrows-Friedman

Nora Barrows-Friedman is the staff editor for the Electronic Intifada. You can find her complaining that the West “demonizes Hamas.” She claims that “all Israel knows how to do” “all they can actually achieve is genocide, mass extermination, trauma, suffering…” Nora co-authored a book entitled “Understanding Hamas and Why it Matters.”

9) Mariam Barghouti

Mariam Barghouti, a “Palestinian Journalist”, is based in Ramallah. She writes for DropSite News, and on October 7th, 2023, while Hamas was attacking innocent Israelis, Mariam tweeted, “Hamas just broke out of prison.” On October 8th, she tweeted, “They literally flew over the cage,” referring to Hamas flying into Israel on parachutes. Mariam even laughed at Ilhan Omar while she was condemning the actions of Hamas and said, “Lulz. This one is for the records.” She has downplayed the taking of hostages. Honest Reporting uncovered some deleted tweets of hers back in 2011 that said, “Israel has been beating Hitler at his own game since 1948”, and “one that referred to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as being ‘nothing more than a war criminal and a Nazi.’” 

10) Hatem Bazian

On May 16, 2014, Congress held a hearing before the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence of the Committee on Homeland Security, during which they discussed Hatem Bazian’s ties to those convicted in the Holy Land Foundation Trial, the largest financial terrorism trial in American history to date. Here is some of that transcript:

Mr. Chairman, we have also learned that AMP’s founder and president, Hatem Bazian, was 1 of 2 featured speakers at a 2004 KindHearts fundraising dinner in California. Incidentally, the other speaker at this dinner was Mohammed el-Mezain, who is currently in jail for his role in the Holy Land Foundation and for providing financial support to Hamas. Bazian, I should note, also spoke in England at an event in 2014 sponsored by the Hamas charity known as Interpal, which was designated for terrorism by the U.S. Treasury in 2003. Interpal belonged to an umbrella organization known as Union of Good, which was also designated by the Treasury for terrorism in 2008. Finally, there are multiple connections between AMP and the Islamic Association for Palestine, or IAP. This was a group found civilly liable in Federal court for supporting Hamas. One interesting figure here is Osama Abuirshaid, who ran IAP’s newspaper. He is currently the National coordinator and policy director for AMP.”

Hatem Bazian has a long, sordid history of being an antisemite. He is the leader of AMP, SJP, BDS, and allegedly Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).

11) Hannah Craig

Hannah Craig may be most known for participating in the pro-Hamas encampments at Columbia. “Hannah Priscilla Craig was featured [01:25:09] in a video posted on YouTube participating in a protest held in support of the encampment outside the Columbia campus on April 19, 2024.”- Canary Mission. She is also the Director of Culture & Communications at The People’s Forum. She has been a major advocate for ICE detainees who have expressed sympathy for terrorist organizations. Hannah has gone on trips to Communist Cuba for festivals that “center Palestine.”

12) Amaya Tawasha Diwan

Amaya’s High School interviewed her after the 10/7 attacks. In this interview, she immediately claimed Palestinian racism and said she attends every single protest for Gaza that she can.

Outside of school, Diwan does everything she can to protest the violence in Gaza. She has attended protests and walkouts calling for a ceasefire. Still, Diwan wishes she could do more. “It makes me really mad to know that I have to sit in class all day and I can’t do anything about [the war],” she said. 

She is a part of the Arab Youth Organizations with AROC, which is known for helping high school students engage in protests.

13) Lama Ghosheh

Israeli police arrested Lama Ghosheh for praising terrorist activities on her social media accounts. She was charged with incitement of violence. According to a Times of Israel article, “In addition to incitement, she was accused of ‘identification with a terrorist group,’ according to the indictment, which cited Facebook posts and messages as evidence. Ghosheh allegedly praised terror activities in the West Bank and Gaza.” This was before the Hamas attack on innocent Israelis on October 7th, 2023.

14) Ashraf Hazeyen

Ashraf Hazeyen is a professor at the University of Rhode Island. He is a fan of Edward Said. He attends conferences on Zoom given by Dr. Rashid Al-Khaldi, who twists and lies about the Palestinian narrative.

15) Monadel Herzallah

Monadel Herzallah is a member of the U.S Palestinian Community Network, founded by Rasmea Odeh and Hatem Abudayyeh. (Rasmea Odeh is a convicted PFLP terrorist who was deported from the United States for lying on her visa application. The FBI formerly investigated Hatem Abudayyeh for possible links to Hamas and the PFLP.) According to Monadel’s LinkedIn profile, he is a former Community and Political Coordinator for the Service Employees International Union, SEIU. His Instagram account is filled with Hamas propaganda and calls for “resistance” in Palestine. He also posts about his hatred for the United States and its Presidents.

16) Dr. Nidal Jboor

Dr. Nidal Jboor is the co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide (DAG), founded in November 2023. DAG had planned to protest at and infiltrate the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C, thankfully, they cancelled the protest. He has attended press conferences in front of the U.S. Capitol with Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Cori Bush. He has accused Israel of mass murder and genocide. Nidal was arrested at the U.S. Capitol on May 20, 2025, for protesting Marco Rubio’s opening statements during a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He attended last year’s conference. He came to the United States 24 years ago from Palestine.

17) Rama Kased

Rama Kased is another active member of USPCN. At last year’s conference, she called for Israel’s destruction. She is an associate professor at San Francisco State University, where she teaches “Race and Resistance Studies.” She founded Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media (AWAAM) in NYC and the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) in the San Francisco Bay Area. She previously taught a course for The People’s Forum entitled “Introduction to Racial Capitalism.”

18) Mahmoud Khalil

Mahmoud Khalil was made famous for being arrested and detained by ICE for his pro-terrorism propaganda and involvement in pro-Hamas protests. He was the alleged leader of a student group, CUAPARTHEIDDIVEST, that openly put out a statement declaring that they were “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.” Mahmoud justified the Oct 7th attack during an interview with the New York Times by saying, ” Oct. 7 was a ‘desperate’ moment which Palestinians had to reach in order to have their voices heard.” Mahmoud is featured in the propaganda film “The Encampments.”

19) Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle

Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle is also a co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide. She spends a lot of her time in the West Bank. Currently, Karameh is employed at Boston Children’s Hospital. She has published works in the Harvard Catalyst, which has faced criticism for being antisemitic. Karameh is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, who came under massive scrutiny for the pro-Hamas encampments. She was also arrested with Dr. Nidal Jboor at the U.S. Capitol before Marco Rubio’s opening statements to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

20) Eduardo Martinez

Mayor Eduardo Martinez of Richmond, California, helped pass a resolution to divest from companies with ties to Israel in May 2024.

We all have a conscience. For some of us, that conscience is activated right away,” Mayor Eduardo Martinez said. “ For the rest of us, it takes time to catch up.”

‘So many young people have put their lives, their bodies, livelihoods on the line to voice their resistance to what’s happening,’ said Richmond Mayor Eduardo Martinez, referring to the Israel-Hamas war. Martinez referred to the self-immolations of Aaron Bushnell and an unidentified woman outside Atlanta’s Israel consulate, who did so in protest of Israel’s war in Gaza.”

According to an article, “Richmond has been among the first in the country to answer these calls — being the first U.S. city to call for a ceasefire weeks after Oct. 7 and now the second Bay Area city to divest from Israel-linked companies.”

He also passed a resolution, “Affirming Richmond’s Support and Solidarity with the Palestinian People of Gaza,” that accused Israel of ethnic cleansing.

21) Lamees Mehanna

Lamees Mehanna is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement, which you can see at the pro-Hamas protests all over NYC. Here she is at one of them demanding that U.S. aid to Israel be stopped in December of 2023, just two months after Hamas attacked Israel.

22) Grant Miner

Grant Miner is a former Student of Columbia, who was expelled for participating in the pro-Hamas encampment on campus and taking over Hamilton Hall. “On Oct 9th, 2023, he was photographed at a protest holding a sign justifying Oct 7th: ‘Resistance against occupation is a human right!’”. “Grant called Hamas a ‘militant group’ and Oct 7th a ‘military action’”. During one of the protests that Grant attended, chants of “Zionists off Campus” could be heard. This fits the theme of the upcoming conference, where they want to “isolate and expose Zionists (Jews)”. Students at Columbia were arrested for their involvement in the insurrection at Hamilton Hall; Grant was one of them. Grant is featured in the propaganda film “The Encampments.”

23) Belal Muhammad

Belal Muhammad, an MMA fighter, was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. At his fights, you can spot his fans wearing jerseys glorifying Oct 7th. Before entering the ring for his matches, Belal is known for carrying the Palestinian flag. After October 7th, Belal added the Palestinian flag to his UFC profile. According to Matthew Wells, a writer at USA Today Sports, “The promotion (website) banned flags in 2022 due to the Russia-Ukraine war, but White ended that policy in October 2023.” Belal had taken to Social Media to personally ask Dana White to add the Palestinian flag. He uses his platform to spread lies about Gaza’s starvation; he claims he is winning for them.

24) Mohammed Nabulsi

Canary Mission, “Mohammed Nabulsi [Mohammed Hisam Nabulsi] is an anti-Israel activist who called for chaos in American cities and glorified terrorism in 2024. He has also celebrated intifada violence, honored terrorists, disrupted campus events and spread hatred of Israel.” He spoke [34:57] at last year’s conference explaining the “fundamental, strategic logic of tactics they have used/ utilized” from the “vantage point of PYM’, he is a Texas organizer of the Palestinian Youth Movement. According to the same Canary Mission page, “On July 20, 2018, Nabulsi shared a tweet from the Hamas Twitter account “@hamasinfo” and wrote: “The resistance is prepared, capable, & moving forward in balancing this equation, as a guarantee, no matter the sacrifices. For our Palestinian people, & the courageous resistance behind them, will exercise all of their might to secure their rights & break the siege on Gaza.” (These accounts no longer exist.)

25) Aisha Nizar

Aisha Nizar is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement. She attacks Maersk, a Danish company that Palestinian activists have continuously attacked for allegedly selling weapons to Israel. Aisha explains her campaign as “people’s arms embargo”, arguing that the weapons manufacturers are the “veins of imperialism.” As of June 23, 2025, Maersk cut ties with companies linked to Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Aisha takes credit for this after putting pressure on the company for over a year.

26) Jemma Pasch

Jemma Pasch is the Director of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). Hatem Bazian allegedly runs JVP. Back in 2023, Hatem Bazian meant to respond to Jake Tapper from the JVP account, but responded from his own. In April 2025, Jemma held and was a featured speaker for a “Study & Action For Palestine” hosted by “Comrade Education” and sponsored by U.S Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Jewish Voice for Peace, Adalah Justice Project, Highlander Center, SURJ, Catalyst Project & Rabbis for Ceasefire. Her topic was on grassroots organization. In June 2022, she fought the ADL, which claimed that there is an equivocation of anti-Zionists to White Supremacists, a rare instance of the ADL being correct.

26) Sachin Peddada

Sachin Peddada is a PHD Student best known for his publication rejecting Zionism, where he claims that Zionism isn’t organic, but a tool of Western imperialism. This negates the fact that Zionism is a 2,000-year-old dream come true in 1948 with the reestablishment of the State of Israel, which can be proven in Jewish prayer, stories, history, and the Torah itself. He is relatively new to the scene and practically unknown.

27) Miko Peled

Miko Peled is a Jewish activist who supports the “resistance.” He has been caught in the pro-Hamas encampment at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. The UK counter-terror police launched an investigation into Pelod in July 2024 for “praising Hamas as heroes,” he claimed in a debate that “the October 7 attacks were acts of heroism.” According to his website, “He travels regularly to Palestine where he speaks and works with the popular resistance, the BDS movement, and other justice groups.” The term “popular resistance” could be interpreted as referring to terrorists. He wrote a book entitled “Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five.” The Holy Land Foundation Trial is one of America’s largest financial terrorism trials, where it was proven that the Holy Land Foundation was funneling money to Hamas. It was also proven that many Islamic organizations are linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

28) Eugene Puryear

Eugene Puryear is a cofounder and Central Committee Member for the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL). PSL came under scrutiny recently when a former member, Elias Rodriguez, shot and killed two Israeli Embassy workers in cold blood at the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.. His Canary Mission profile reads, “Eugene Puryear promoted terrorism and expressed support for Hamas at an October 8, 2023, rally he helped organize. Puryear also glorified terrorism in May 2024, as well as spoke at the pro-Hamas encampment at Columbia in April 2024.” Not even 24 hours after the horrific attack on Israel by Hamas, Puryear was organizing protests.

29) Sueda Polat

Sueda Polat helped organize the pro-Hamas encampments at Columbia. She is also seen repeatedly with Mahmoud Khalil. As a former organizer for Columbia University Apartheid Divest, CUAD, Sueda was one of the “two negotiators” at the encampment. The Washington Post quoted Sueda as saying: “Students are prepared to confront militarized police violence. I think people underestimate how powerful and tough students are.” In an exposé piece written by The Wall Street Journal, it was claimed that activists like Sueda were trained for months before the encampment by left-wing groups and received guidance from longtime activists. Sueda is featured in the propaganda film “The Encampments.”

30) Fadi Quran

Fadi Quran is a long-time activist who has been calling Israel an apartheid state for over ten years. Fadi’s Twitter account says he is located in El-Bireh, Palestine. Serving as the Senior Director of AVAAZ, which claims to have over 69 MILLION members, and the founder of Thiqa, he has a broad reach. He spent time in America as a Science and Policy intern at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009 and as a research assistant at Stanford University. According to his Canary Mission page, “On November 15, 2011, Quran was arrested while riding an Israeli commuter bus in the West Bank purportedly to ‘challenge Israel’s regime of colonial Apartheid in Palestine,’ and In June 2014, Quran was reportedly arrested by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and charged with ‘provoking riots and the breach of public tranquility.’ Quran was one of four BDS activists demonstrating against an Indian dance group that had also performed in Tel Aviv.”

31) Jake Romm

Jake Romm is the US Representative for the Hind Rajab Foundation, which is known for hunting IDF soldiers abroad. According to Mark Zell (an International Lawyer), who quoted the NGO Monitor, the head of the Hind Rajab Foundation was trained by Hezbollah. The NGO Monitor report itself says, “In a 2003 New York Times article, he claimed he had joined Hezbollah against Israel and declared, “I had some military training, I’m still very proud of that.” Jake Romm has compared Israel to Adolf Eichmann.

Jake personally encourages his followers to report Israeli’s abroad.

32) Linda Sarsour

Linda Sarsour is perhaps most famous for the Women’s March, which was disbanded due to its antisemitism. She is the co-founder of MPower Change. Linda frequently works with Hamas-linked organizations like CAIR and its affiliated local branches, as well as CAIR Action (an offshoot of CAIR). Controversy surrounds her for her anti-Zionist (Jew) and anti-Israel opinions.

33) Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch

Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch is the Executive Director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA). MECA is a major player in these protests, according to researcher Andrea Shaffer. According to NGO Monitor,  “In 2016-2023, MECA received $430,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund for its ‘Creative Palestinian Communities Fund,’ a ‘funding and support model that incentivizes civic engagement, funds creative solutions, and raises social capital among communities and grassroots organizations across Palestine.’ In 2020-2022, MECA received $400,000 from the Open Society Foundation to “support artistic, cultural, and agricultural projects that will incentivize civic engagement and generate local development solutions which will advance education and promote social welfare in communities across Palestine. In FY 2020-2021, total income was $8.5 million; total expenses were $5.6 million.”

On May 15, 2021, Zeiad wrote:

The first Intifada laid the groundwork for the second Intifada. Now it seems the Palestinians have a new Intifada, and maybe it will grow into more than an Intifada. The young generation will let us know. Free Palestine!”

On Oct 7, 2023, MECA published a blog entitled “Gaza Diaries: Searching for somewhere safe,” where they were blaming Israel for the bombardment of Gaza. Hours before, they posted an article, “We Expect the Worst.” They were blaming Israel for bombing Gaza, not even hours after Hamas attacked innocent civilians and was kidnapping 200 others.

34) Chris Smalls

Chris Smalls recently made headlines for being a Flotilla crew member and trying to sail his way into Israel. He was arrested, and the media made false claims of racism and alleged that he was beaten. Chris recently announced he was going to sue for assault.

35) Dr. Omar Suleiman

Omar Suleiman can be found at ICE detention facilities when the detainees are associated with Muslims being deported: Mahmoud Khalil, Ward Sakeik, and Dr. Badar Khan Suri. He is the founder of the Yaqeen Institute, a religious scholar at the Valley Ranch Islamic Center, an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University (SMU), and a frequent speaker at events hosted by Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations; he has attended every ICNA conference for the last 15 years. Suleiman gave the opening prayer to Congress on May 12, 2019. He has a longstanding relationship with CAIR and its affiliates. He has a long history of antisemitism and being against the state of Israel. He was also at the pro-Hamas encampments reciting and leading prayers.

36) Rashida Tlaib

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is best known for being a part of the “Hamas Caucus.” She spoke at last year’s conference, and according to Canary Mission, “6 of her 2018 fundraiser co-hosts either raised money for Hamas or had a close relationship with the terror group.” The six individuals allegedly involved in raising money for Hamas are: Mwafaq Jbara, Sheikh Muhammad Qatanani, Huwaida Arraf (a speaker at this conference), Salah Sarsour, Rafeeq Jaber, and Abdelbaset Hamayel. Canary Mission also proved that Tlaib: invited a guest of honor at the 2019 swearing-in linked to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, used a pro-terror FB Page for 2018 Election Fundraising,  founded a pro-terror hate group, Black4Palestine, in Detroit in 2015, and that the pro-terror Hate Group, Black4Palestine, worked directly with PFLP Terrorists from 2016 to 2020. 

37) Ammar Youzbashy

Ammar Youzbashy is not well-known in the United States. You can find him on X, tweeting Hamas propaganda.

On November 10th, 2018, he tweeted, “And with the strength of God we see America retreating Its tyranny in the dust Trampled by the barefoot. #From_Palestine_Here_Yemen“

On April 12th, 2012, he tweeted,” I love revolution.”

38) Hossam Shaheen

Hossam Shaheen is a terrorist who was released in the hostage exchange back in February, where he served almost a two-decade sentence for attempted murder and conspiracy to kill. The organizers claim that attendees will “hear directly about the prisoners’ struggle in Zionist prisons from a freed prisoner.” Michael Sharr’s report on X states, “Shaheen, after serving as the international coordinator for Fatah’s youth movement, was part of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, setting up a cell in east Jerusalem. He recruited and supplied weapons for multiple terrorist attacks.”

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A National Security Test for America

The mask is off. The People’s Conference for Palestine is not about peace, justice, or culture — it is about normalizing terror on U.S. soil. Convicted killers, Hamas propagandists, and professional agitators are gathering in Detroit under the protection of secrecy, aided by American elected officials who should know better. The addition of children’s indoctrination tracks proves that this movement is not only trying to mobilize adults — it is planting seeds of hatred in the next generation.

The Trump administration is right to move against foreign radicals by blocking their visas. But that is only the beginning. Non-citizens already inside the United States who glorify Hamas or justify October 7th should face deportation under existing terrorism provisions of immigration law. The groups behind this conference — from Students for Justice in Palestine to the Palestinian Youth Movement — must be investigated for material support to terrorism. And American politicians, including Rashida Tlaib, must be censured for giving legitimacy to extremists bent on dismantling America’s security and Israel’s existence.

Detroit is a test case. If the United States shrugs and looks the other way while this conference unfolds, it sends one message to our enemies: that America will tolerate terrorism so long as it dresses itself up as “activism.” The State Department, Congress, and the American people must not allow this threat to take root. The choice is clear — either we stop it now, or we will pay the price later when today’s “conference” becomes tomorrow’s October 7th on American soil.

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