Antisemitic watchdog Canary Mission has released a startling report showing how anti-Israel groups “declared war on America” following Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. By using activists’ own words, the watchdog has shown that numerous anti-Israel protesters in the United States now “view the destruction of the State of Israel as the gateway to achieving the destruction of America.”
Along with its extensive report, Canary Mission has created an alarming eight-minute video featuring frightening footage of violence, burning American flags, vandalism, and support for terrorism at anti-Israel protests over the past year, as well as statements from anti-Israel leaders about their intentions to escalate during the coming phases of their efforts.
Many of the statements Canary Mission has highlighted emanate from the May 2024 People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, where around 3,000 conference attendees raised “more than $165,000 in attendance fees to be forwarded to Gaza.” Speakers at the conference included Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, as well as designated terrorist organization People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine member Wisam Rafeedie, who was one of several speakers who presented remotely after being denied a visa to enter the country.
Conference attendees presented a gift to the widow of Walid Daqqa, a PFLP terrorist who died in an Israeli prison after kidnapping, torturing, castrating, disfiguring, and murdering an Israeli soldier in 1984. Organizers also renamed a ballroom at the conference Walid Daqqa Hall in his honor.
Escalation was a key focus of the People’s Conference for Palestine. Conference speaker Taher Herzallah, director of outreach and grassroots organizing for American Muslims for Palestine, told attendees, “I caution you of the days to come because they will not be easy. There are people among us today who might not be with us next year at this conference. And this is a reality. Because the liberation struggle requires sacrifice. And I know everyone here is prepared to make that sacrifice.”
Herzallah further explained that “the Palestinian diaspora in North America has committed its martyrs for this cause.”
The remarks were eerily similar to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s explanation in an April letter to Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas political chief, that the thousands of civilian casualties in Gaza “are necessary sacrifices.”
Canary Mission’s report also outlined the anti-Israel movement’s three-pronged strategy for destroying Israel. Borrowed from the South African anti-apartheid movement, the plan involves garnering international support, mass mobilization, and normalizing armed struggle. The final component in this tactic is vital, explained South African Communist Party Chairman Mandla Radebe, because “if the enemy refuses to die, it must be killed.”
Anti-Israel groups have already spread fear as a facet of promoting resistance “by any means necessary.” Over the last year, opponents’ homes and important American institutions have been tagged with the inverted red triangle that Hamas uses to mark military targets. Terrorism advocacy has become a normal component of rallies and messaging. At an Oct. 8 rally in Philadelphia, an activist effused, “I salute Hamas, a job well done,” a sentiment that has continued to spread.
“I am Hamas,” Canary Mission’s video shows one protester screaming. “We’re all Hamas, pig,” another activist shrieks.
In this atmosphere of escalation, a number of American activists have ceased to promote any two-state solution for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As Rafeedie told the People’s Conference for Palestine, “There is no longer a place for the two-state solution for any Palestinian. The only solution is one democratic Palestinian state on all Palestinian land, which will end the Zionist project in Palestine.”
Dismantling the U.S., which activists euphemistically refer to as “Empire” and “the beast,” is ultimately at the heart of the movement’s goals. As activist Yara Shoufani explained in Detroit, “The Palestinian revolution … radicalizes us and shows us clearly who our enemies are … there is no reforming the U.S. empire.”
This sentiment permeates activists’ messaging.
“It is time to bring the war home. It is time to smash this empire,” one activist states in Canary Mission’s video.
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Another activist calls followers to “bring Empire to its knees.” Another asks, “What is next? To strike at the heart of Empire.”
With antisemitism raging within the U.S. and the conflicts in Israel, Gaza, and Lebanon only growing, Canary Mission’s report is timed at a crucial juncture. In its own words, anti-Israel activists demonstrate preparations to increase the ferocity of their efforts to bring down Israel and the West from within. America must prepare to head off the war that protesters seek to bring home by demanding that our leaders enforce our laws, speak truth to propaganda, and stand for tolerance and peace amid rising calls for hate.
Beth Bailey (@BWBailey85) is a freelance contributor to Fox News and the host of The Afghanistan Project podcast, which takes a deep dive into nearly two decades of war and the tragedy wrought in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.