The People’s Conference for Palestine, held in Troy, Michigan, this past weekend, was billed as a grassroots gathering of Palestinian activists and their allies. But behind the carefully packaged language of “liberation,” the rhetoric captured in multiple clips from the conference reveals an alarming mix of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism—messaging that seeks to delegitimize the United States itself while demonizing Israel and its supporters.
The clips, shared by Twitter/X user @thestustustudio (Stu Smith), expose the raw language used by speakers across multiple sessions.
One speaker called for direct campaigns against the United States and allied governments, boasting about pressure tactics against Egypt and urging confrontation against America in the wake of the Trump administration:
“It’s empowering people to actually transform what we’re able to do, whether it’s speaking out, whether it’s organizing as ourselves, whether it’s carrying out campaigns, into tangible, strategic targets that have to respond to us… What the one thing that I say repression does? It makes you feel alienated and isolated. The only thing that allows you to overcome that is community and organization and strength, and that’s what we need to do.”
Another speaker explicitly tied the Palestinian movement to American political symbols—demanding that their rallies use the U.S. flag while simultaneously denouncing American leadership and praising fringe voices:
“Do not let the Israelis and the Zionists in this country to have a monopoly over the American flag… It should always be present in our rallies and activities, because we do not do this work alone. We do not hate this country. We love this country. We hate the genocide of health, whether it’s the guys who were in the last administration who owned this mess or the current administration… The ones who are making the most sense right now are Tucker Carlson and Congresswoman from Georgia, and we have to appeal to a broader coalition.”
One of the most chilling moments came when a speaker openly described the United States as locked in a “double suicide pact” with Israel:
“You must always continue to organize. You must always continue to agitate because the quicker we can create enough insurmountable pressure that causes the American state to recalculate its double suicide pact with Israel, the quicker we can save as many Palestinian lives as possible.”
Other rhetoric was more explicitly anti-American, calling for dismantling the very idea of the country itself:
“We have to destroy the idea of America in our heads, in our neighbors’ heads, in our comrades’ heads, in everybody’s heads in this country.”
And in another panel, the United States and Israel were equated as indistinguishable “empires,” with calls to erase American exceptionalism from the minds of citizens:
“The average American will never understand the plight of the Palestinian person, because the state of Israel is a carbon copy of the United States, and therefore the thing to do is to destroy the idea of America in American [minds] so that they can see the humanity of everybody outside of the warping of American exceptionalism and imperialism and all these evil things.”
According to the official program, the conference was convened by a coalition of groups including the Palestinian Youth Movement, U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, ANSWER Coalition, and National Students for Justice in Palestine.
But as these speeches show, what’s being promoted is not just “solidarity with Gaza”—it’s a deliberate campaign to delegitimize both Israel and America, while spreading rhetoric that normalizes anti-Semitism under the guise of “resistance.”
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