Israeli prisoners released in exchange for Hamas to speak alongside Rashida Tlaib

A controversial pro-Palestinian rally in Detroit is the subject of a meticulous examination for having presented speakers with extremist views-including two former Israeli prisoners released in an agreement of Hamas-the representative of Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., An eminent anti-Israel congress.

The second annual conference of the “People’s Conference for Palestine” conference, which is organized by a dozen different pro-Palestinian groups, will start on Friday afternoon and will end on Sunday.

The representative Tlaib will speak alongside several people accused of having married an anti -Semitic rhetoric, including a professor who compared the Jews to the Nazis, a journalist who joked on Hamas kidnapping “several dozen hips” in “a sort of rave” on October 7, 2023, and a high -end activist who said that his other philanthropic in the midst of anti -Semitism complaints.

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The Palestinian terrorists of Hamas are custody of the day of the transmission of hostages held in Gaza since the mortal of October 7, 2023, as part of a ceasefire and the hostages to exchange the agreement between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah in the south of Gaza, on February 22, 2025. (Reuters / Hatem Khaled / Photo file)

Tlaib, herself, was not foreign to criticism of his anti-Israeli opinions either. She was censored in 2023 by her colleagues from Congress for an alleged inflammatory rhetoric on the War of Israel-Hamas. Censorship has followed several comments from Tlaib which attracted the output, including its use of the “river to the sea” expression, a slogan that many supporters of Israel consider as a call for the destruction of Israel.

TLAIB was also criticized in 2023 for having been part of a Facebook secret group for many years that glorified the terrorists following attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023.

Representative Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Expresses himself during a demonstration calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, on October 18, 2023, near the Capitol in Washington. (AP photo / Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, file)

The deputy will be joined at the conference by two former prisoners held by Israel who won their freedom thanks to an exchange of Israeli prisoners with Hamas. One of these people, Hussam Shaheen, was sentenced by the Israeli authorities to almost 30 years in prison in the early 2000s for murder and plot in order to commit murder.

The other former prisoner, Omar Assaf, was formerly an official of the Democratic Front for the release of Palestine (DFLP). The DFLP is not a terrorist group designated by the United States, but it has been targeted by American sanctions.

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The other participants of the this weekend conference include Raja Abdulhaq, who is listed on the conference website as co-founder of the NEDA Network (QNN), which was suspended from Twitter in 2019 for alleged ties with terrorism, said a company spokesperson. Time of Israel. Subsequently, other main social media platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok, have all taken steps to restrict QNN’s presence on their platforms.

Wesam Ahmed, another speaker, is listed as a “human rights defender” with Al-Haq, an entity Accused by the Israeli government to have links with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Meanwhile, the militant of the Michigan region and former Congress candidate, Huwaida Arraf, should also speak. Arraf is known to be a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), which has already been studied by the FBI for possible links with the terrorists. In 2021, Arraf also wrote an article which favored the use of violent tactics against the Israelis.

“Palestinian resistance must take a variety of characteristics-non-violent and violent,” she wrote at the time. “But above all, he must develop a strategy involving both aspects.”

However, when it has been contacted to comment, Arraf criticized that it can be anti -Semitic, arguing that any accusation of such “is supposed to mack and silence the Palestinians and anyone who dares to talk about their rights”.

“My file is clear,” she added. “I have spent my life opposing all forms of racism, discrimination and oppression. Keeping the criticism of a government with the hatred of a people is dishonest and dangerous – it arms anti -Semitism instead of doing it.”

A director of Michigan High School was forced to apologize to students and parents in 2023 after Arraf left the scenario in a “diversity assembly” and attacked Israel.

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People walk to support the Palestinians in New York on October 8, 2023, after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a terrorist attack on Israel. (Bryan R. Smith / AFP)

Several university professors accused of anti -Semitism will also be at the event with Tlaib. One of them, Hatem Bazian, was criticized by his university, the University of California – Berkley, in 2017 after sharing an anti -Israeli animated cartoon which made a generalized game to compare the Jews to the Nazis, among other tropes.

“Mom, look! I am chosen! I can now kill, rape, make the nail of organs and steal the land of the Palestinians Yay # Ashke-Nazi”, read the legend of a political cartoon shared by Bazian, the president of American Muslims for Palestine and the co-founder of students for justice in Palestine.

The legend was superimposed on an image of an Orthodox Jewish individual who was juxtaposed alongside an image of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un carrying a kippah and other traditional Jewish costumes. This photo was also superimposed with his own legend: “Donald Trump: now, my nuclear weapons are legal and I can annex South Korea and you have to start paying me 34 billion per year of well-being.”

In 2015, Bazian, whose SJP group fueled anti-Israeli riots on university campuses, raised alarm ringtones when he called for an “intifada in this country which fundamentally changes political dynamics here”, which is largely interpreted as calling for violence against the Jews. He continued saying: “They will say that a Palestinian is too radical – well, you have not yet seen radicalism.”

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Another speaker of the event, journalist Eugene Puryear, was criticized for having trivialized the attacks of October 7, 2023 of Hamas who killed more than a thousand innocent Israelis.

“As you may have seen, there was a kind of rave or desert where they spent a good time, until the resistance arrived in electrified gliders and taking at least dozens of hipsters,” said Puryear on October 8, one day after the attack, according to a report of the anti-deficiency league.

Linda Sarsour, who had to resume his remarks after declaring Israel “is built on the idea that the Jews are supreme for everyone”, and lost his seat on the board of directors of the women’s march in the midst of anti-Semitism allegations, will also appear on Friday afternoon. Sarsour had previously denied the allegations of anti -Semitism that came during his stay with the walking of women.

Activist Linda Sarsour speaks at the Rally in New York. ((Photo by Erik McGregor / Lightrocket via Getty Images) IMGA)

“Ask them, how can you be against white supremacy in America and the idea of ​​being in a state-based state and class, but you then support a state like Israel which is based on supremacy, which is built on the idea that the Jews are supreme for everyone,” asked a crowd in 2019, according to the Israeli news outlet.

Mahmoud Khalil, the former student of the University of Columbia that the Trump administration tried to deport for allegedly aroused anti-Israeli violence on his campus, will also be present.

In addition to the speakers, the organizers added a special program for children. “We are proud to introduce a two -day children’s program for 6 to 12 years old, with engaging activities and an educational program that explores the history, culture and Palestinian resistance,” said the Conference website.

Fox News Digital contacted the conference to comment on its list of speakers, but did not immediately receive an answer. Fox News Digital also contacted several of the speakers for comments, but, with the exception of Arraf, did not immediately hear.

Cameron Cawthorne and Andrew Mark Miller from Fox News contributed to this report