While Americans celebrated our fallen heroes over the Memorial Day weekend, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) chose to celebrate something else. More correctly, she chose to celebrate someone, or somewhere, else.
It shouldn’t shock us that one of our most anti-American officials celebrated with a terrorist organization in which speakers called for protestors to “bring down this empire with one million cuts” — referring to the United States.
The three-day event in Detroit was called the “Peoples Conference for Palestine.” The organizers were a founding member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Salah Salah, and member of the PFLP, Wisam Rafeedie. The PFLP is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing of a 17-year-old girl.
While Americans across the country sang our national anthem, attendees…