Once again: how long can a nation endure the presence within it of people who hate it and want to see it destroyed?
“Controversial Pulitzer Prize Winner Set To Appear at Detroit Conference Alongside Terrorists,” by Jessica Costescu, Washington Free Beacon, August 21, 2025:
Palestinian “poet” and writer Mosab Abu Toha, the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, is scheduled to appear at an upcoming anti-Israel conference alongside several radical speakers with ties to terror groups.
Abu Toha, who defended the atrocities of Oct. 7 and disparaged Israelis kidnapped by Hamas, will address the People’s Conference for Palestine, held in Detroit from Aug. 29–31.
Other featured speakers include Hussam Shaheen, who spent 27 years in prison for attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder until he was released in February as part of a deal to swap Israeli hostages for Palestinian terrorists. Omar Assaf, a former member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, and Lama Ghosheh, a Palestinian journalist from East Jerusalem, will also deliver speeches. Assaf spent eight years in jail for serving with the DFLP, which is part of the Palestine Liberation Organization, while an Israeli court sentenced Ghosheh to three years in prison in 2023 for inciting violence and praising terrorism in the West Bank and Gaza.
The speaker list caught the attention of the Trump administration, which is preparing to block “terrorist sympathizers” who apply for visas to speak at the conference, a senior State Department official told the Washington Free Beacon.
“Given the public invite lists seem to include a number of terrorist sympathizers, we are going through and ensuring all international speakers slated to attend the conference are being placed on a ‘look out’ status for visa applications, so we are alerted if a request is submitted and can ensure they are appropriately processed,” the senior official told the Free Beacon.
Abu Toha, for his part, has repeatedly come to the defense of Hamas.
The Palestinian was awarded the Pulitzer for his essays in the New Yorker for documenting the “physical and emotional carnage in Gaza” in a way that combined “deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience of more than a year and a half of war with Israel.”
Soon after, his extremist anti-Israel social media posts surfaced.
“How on earth is this girl called a hostage? (And this is the case of most ‘hostages’),” Abu Toha wrote on Facebook on Jan. 24, 2025. “This is Emily Damari, a 28 [year-old] UK-Israeli soldier that Hamas detailed [sic] on 10/7… So this girl is called a ‘hostage?’ This soldier who was close to the border with a city that she and her country have been occupying is called a ‘hostage.’”
Damari was abducted from her home in the Kfar Aza kibbutz on Oct. 7 and spent 471 days in Hamas captivity. She denounced the Pulitzer Board for giving Abu Toha the prize, calling out the Pulitzers for elevating “a voice that denies truth, erases victims, and desecrates the memory of the murdered.”
Abu Toha, who is currently a “visiting scholar” at Syracuse University and was previously a “visiting poet” and “librarian in residence” at Harvard University, also targeted Agam Berger, an Israeli violinist and former Gaza border scout who spent 482 days in Hamas captivity….
Laurence Jarvik says
Pulitzer Prize? The New Yorker? Obviously the voice of the Establishment. Houston, we have a problem…
OLD GUY says
A BIG PROBLEM, we’ve been invaded.
JS says
Does this Abu guy live in the U.S.? He needs to be forever blocked from ever stepping foot in the U.S.
No one will learn until they start attacking everyone else!
DavidW says
Be sure to have ICE and the FBI there to screen the attendees (they can probably pick up a few illegals and some who are violating their VISAs).
James Lincoln says
Absolutely, DavidW.
Billy says
Islam’s Muslims are enemies of America, Israel, and all Non-Muslims as expressed by Muslim discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran(Quran 9:5, 29, 111; 98:6-7, etc.).
ISLAM IS AHISTORICAL, FALLACIOUS, DECEITFUL, AND POLITICAL to conquer and to subjugate Non-Muslims(Quran 3:54; 7:99; 8:30, etc.). There is NO MECCA, NO MUHAMMAD, and NO QURAN in the 7th century AD in Saudi Arabia despite the Muslim Standard Islamic Narrative(SIN) claims. Thus, Islam is a FACTITIOUS IDEOLOGY and CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION despicably fabricated over time into the 21sth century, and there is NO PEACE with Islam and its Murderous Muslims(Quran 8:39: 9:5, 29, 111, etc.).
Allah’s cursed Islam, a CRIMINAL-TERRORIST ENTERPRISE and a MURDEROUS-DEMONIC CULT OF BELIEVERS, Terrorist Muslim Soldiers for Allah, continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, mass murder, intimidation, supremacy, segregation, hatred, incitement to violence, criminality, genocide, victimhood, censorship, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law, Sharia, and in Islam’s Quran(Quran 5:14,35; 8:60; 9:41, 88, etc.).
Allah’s specious ideology in Qur’an 8:39 commands Muslims to fight Non-Muslims until they surrender to Muslim rule when it says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Muslims are encouraged to conquer and subjugate every territory for Islam. Hence, Islam and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Westerners via Tax Exempt Organizations, the Media and Hollywood, Foreign Funding, etc. because Islam violates and is incompatible with Western Laws(Quran 8:60; 9:5,29, 111; 47:4; 49:15; 60:4 etc.).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam and its Muslims function as a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims to make Islam supreme and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes Terrorist Criminal Organizations with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 2:191; 4:89, 91; 9:5,29, 111; 49:15, etc.).
Allah’s Islam, a supremacist Antichrist Ideology, is using Western Freedoms and Laws against Non-Muslims to conquer Non-Muslims under Islamic Rule. Non-Muslims should legally designate Islam as a Muslim Terrorist Organization(MTO) where Mosques, Muslim Schools, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, and Muslim Organizations are banned because of their incitement of segregation and discrimination to fight back against ISLAMIZATION, Muslim subjugation, and tyrannical violence(Quran 4:65; 9:5,29,111; 60:4; 98:6-7, etc.).
Allah’s Muslims desire to make Islam supreme. Sahih Bukhari 3126 says, “… the Prophet said, He who fights so that Allah’s Word(ie. Islam) should be superior, fights for Allah’s Cause.” Allah, the Supreme Destroyer, in Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah[ie. Allah’s Cause), so they kill and are killed…”. Allah teaches that Death By Jihad leads to Muslim Paradise and Allah’s reward. Allah in Qur’an 3:169 says, “And do not consider those who were killed for the sake of Allah as dead. Yet they are alive with their lord, receiving their provision.”
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a CRIME of Blasphemy, Unbelief, and Infidelity against tyrannical Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION AS SUPREME(Quran 3:115, 151; 9:5, 29, 111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0, etc.).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-totalitarian way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of: incitement, intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, oppression, segregation, slavery, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, sedition, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:191, 208,216; 4:65, 89,91, 95, 115; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,60, 74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49, 73,88, 111,123; 21:92; 47:4; 49:15; 60:4; 61:9-11; 62:6; 89:14; etc.).
Brigitte from Germany says
https://cufi.org/#:~:text=MAKING%20ISRAEL%20STRONGER%20AND%20HER,wherever%20it%20may%20be%20found.
By CUFI can we stay with Israel.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Those jihadists would be pretty stupid to even try to come to the US, given the current immigration regime. Their best bet would be to sit in Doha and attend that conference by Zoom
In the meantime, all non-US citizens, including Green Card holders, who are physically there in Detroit as a part of this conference ought to be rounded up and deported instantly before any rogue judge can step in and delay it
Dr K says
BOOM !
Perfect opportunity