Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has once again shown the world exactly where her sympathies lie — and it isn’t with the United States or its allies. Speaking at the “People’s Conference for Palestine” in Detroit, Tlaib unleashed a profanity-laced tirade that could have been lifted straight from a Hamas recruitment video.
“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,” she shouted to cheers from the crowd. “Well, guess what? Now we’re in Congress and we’re in every corner of the United States… Look at this room, motherf***ers. We ain’t going anywhere!”
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib addressed the People’s Conference for Palestine in her hometown of Detroit today, where she paused to deliver a message to the “genocide-enablers” in the halls of power:
“Look at this room, motherfuckers! We ain’t going anywhere.”
The crowd erupted… pic.twitter.com/UxDPVXPWyt
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This wasn’t simply a fiery stump speech — it was a rallying cry at a conference already steeped in anti-American, anti-Israel rhetoric. Hours before Tlaib took the stage, Ph.D. student Sachin Peddada declared from the same platform: “We live in an evil country.” Another speaker, activist Huwaida Arraf, called to “globalize the intifada,” language long understood as an endorsement of terror campaigns against Jews worldwide.
The Anti-Defamation League wasted no time condemning the event, noting that it “lionized those who support violence against Jews” and expressing alarm that an elected member of Congress would participate alongside individuals tied to terrorist organizations.
But none of this is surprising. Tlaib has built a career on blending identity politics with open hostility toward Israel and, increasingly, the United States itself. She was censured in 2023 for spreading Hamas propaganda and attacking American allies. She’s defended the Houthis in Yemen, apparently forgetting (or ignoring) that they are designated as a terrorist group. She has repeatedly embraced the toxic slogan “from the river to the sea,” which explicitly calls for the elimination of Israel.
Sachin Peddada: “We Live in an Evil Country”
At the People’s Conference for Palestine, Sachin Peddada — Research Coordinator for Progressive International and a PhD student at UMass Amherst — painted the United States not just as flawed, but as fundamentally wicked:
“We live in… pic.twitter.com/6pstG5APls
— Stu (@thestustustudio) August 29, 2025
And yet, despite this record — despite her attendance at conferences where America is denounced as “evil” and violent revolution is glorified — Tlaib remains a sitting member of Congress.
Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans have every reason, and every obligation, to draw a line. If celebrating with terrorist sympathizers, hurling obscenities at her colleagues, and denouncing her own country as complicit in genocide don’t meet the threshold for expulsion, what does?
1/2 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.
— ADL (@ADL) September 1, 2025
