‘Motherf*ckers, We Ain’t Going Anywhere’: Tlaib Gives Fiery Speech At Conference Where America Was Called an ‘Evil Country’

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Rep Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) spoke at a controversial conference over the weekend and offered a rallying cry for the pro-Palestinian movement. Tlaib spoke at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, which grabbed headlines as one panelist used his speaking time to call the U.S. “evil” while another called to “continue to globalize the intifada.”

“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. 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.

Fox News covered the event’s Friday sessions, ahead of Tlaib’s address, in an article titled, “Pro-Palestinian conference panelist calls US ‘evil,’ urges ‘destroying the idea of America.’” 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.”

“We live in an evil country,” Peddada told the approving audience, later added, “And, therefore, the thing to do is to destroy the idea of America in Americans’ heads so that they can see the humanity of everybody outside the warping of American exceptionalism and imperialism and all these evil things.”

Other clips from the conference quickly went viral among both critics and fans of the event.

The Anti-Defamation League released a statement on Monday condemning the event. “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,” wrote the ADL on X, adding:

As we’ve seen recently, some media outlets—including mainstream ones—ignore the hateful rhetoric some of these individuals engage in and keep offering platforms and lionizing those who support violence against Jews. Let’s hope this event at least serves as a reminder.

Watch the clips above.