A gathering in Dearborn, Michigan, featured pro-Palestine chants, such as “Death to America!” and demands to abolish the “entire” American system. Along with calling the United States “one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this Earth,” the anti-Israel crowd also demanded the resignation of President Joe Biden.
A pro-Palestinian demonstration on International Al-Quds Day took place in Dearborn on Friday. Speaker Tarek Bazzi, a Michigan activist affiliated with the Hadi Institute, delivered a speech to the gathering.
Pro-Palestine demonstrations, according to Bazzi, must be both anti-American and anti-Israeli, as “the United States government provides the finances for all of the horrors” in Gaza.
Bazzi said, “Imam Khomeini would urge you to pour all of your chants and all of your yells upon the head of America since it is Imam Khomeini who declared the International Al-Quds Day.”
Next, demonstrators screamed, “Death to America!” during the protest.
Then, Bazzi cited Malcolm X, who said, “We live in one of the rottest countries that has ever existed on this Earth” during a 1964 demonstration.
Next, the Muslim speaker criticized President Biden and the US political system.
“Genocide Joe is not the only one who has to go. It is the system as a whole that has to change, declared Bazzi. “There is no place for such a system on God’s Earth—any system that would permit and encourage such crimes and depravity.”
Then Bazzi criticized “these idiots” for questioning if “Israel has a right to exist.”
He declared, “The most rational cry heard throughout the world today is ‘Death to Israel!’”
The protesters chanted, “Death to Israel!”
Iman Usama Abdulghani, a resident of Michigan, made the observation that Israel is a “disease” and an “evil settler imperialist enterprise.”
“Those of conscious awareness,” he claimed, understand that “Israel is ISIS; they are Nazis, they are fascists, they are racists.”
Then, one could hear demonstrators yelling, “From the river to the sea” and “Free Palestine.”
“From the river to the sea” demands the abolition of the state of Israel and the creation of a state for Palestine stretching from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
Democrats in Michigan began to turn against the head of their own party in February, pushing for voters to support Biden in the state’s primary over the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) spoke passionately against “Biden’s sponsoring war and murder in Gaza” when visiting Dearborn to do a stump speech for a progressive organization.
The pro-Palestine group is so dedicated to preventing American assistance to Israel that it even makes suggestions on helping Donald Trump win Michigan, a crucial state in the 2024 presidential contest.
