This week, anti-American and pro-Hamas advocates gathered in Detroit at a "People's Conference for Palestine." There, they expressed radical solidarity with terrorism, celebrated the achievements of Hamas and denigrated the United States. "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," said one speaker. "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."

Points for honesty.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., also showed up to express her raging hatred against the West. "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 intoned. "Well, guess what? Now we're in Congress."

Putting aside Tlaib's obvious lies -- the only genocidal force in the Israeli-Arab conflict is Israel's enemies -- she is right about one thing: the........

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