Rep. Rashida Tlaib addressed the People's Conference for Palestine in Detroit with a forceful, defiant message that supporters will not disappear and are "just getting started." The address included an explicit denunciation of "genocide enablers" and an expletive-laden call to action. The conference featured controversial panels, including a session where Sachin Peddada called the United States evil and urged destroying the idea of America while arguing for an arms embargo to prevent alleged genocide. Media outlets reported on the event and on provocative remarks made during Friday sessions.
Well, guess what? Now we're in Congress and we're in every corner of the United States, Tlaib said to an energetic crowd, adding: 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*ckers. We ain't going anywhere.
Sachin Peddada, a Ph.D. student, made the remarks while speaking on a panel titled, No Weapons for Genocide: The People Demand an Arms Embargo. If there's one soundbite that I hope becomes synonymous with the People's Conference for Palestine beyond all the Hamas mentions it's this: We have to destroy the idea of America in our heads, in our neighbors' heads, in our comrades' heads"
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