Top pro-Palestinian activist: ‘It’s our job to destroy the United States’

The pro-Palestine movement intends to “destroy” and “undermine” the United States, some of its top activists recently said.

On April 24th, a webinar was held to celebrate the 71st birthday of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is serving a prison sentence for killing a police officer in 1981. Participants included Abu-Jamal himself; Rishi Arun, president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Temple University in Philadelphia; Mohammed Khatib, the Europe coordinator of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a designated terror organization; a participant identified as Zach with the pronouns “he/him/his” beside his name; a transgender activist wearing a face mask identified as Bina with the pronouns “she/her”; and other pro-Palestinian student activists.

As president of Temple University’s SJP chapter, Rishi Arun was one of the leading organizers of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment that occupied parts of the University of Pennsylvania campus last year, where demonstrators vandalized property and called for Hamas to increase its violent attacks on Israelis.

Speaking to the webinar’s participants, Arun said: “It is our job to destroy imperialism, to destroy the United States... by organizing in a way that actively undermines and destabilizes the legitimacy and power of the state.” A webinar participant identified as “Maya (any pronouns)” reacted to Arun’s remarks about destroying the United States by smiling and performing a small dance.

Mohammed Khatib appeared to confirm this point by saying: "If Palestine is liberated, this is a nail to dismantle the United States of America."

The trans student activist who went by Bina voiced open support for Hamas, which has come to use a red triangle as a symbol of its October 7th attack, and the murder of police.

"We know it is a victory when a red triangle goes above an Israeli soldier's head, and a pig gets iced,” Bina said. “We know that is a victory. We know it is a victory when prisoners break out, we know it is a victory when all these things happen. But a lot of people don't necessarily know that. And it's not their fault they don't know that. It's our fault."

Islamic efforts to conquer the US

While some Islamists, like pro-Palestinian activists, work to destroy the United States, others are working to conquer it through infiltration. Last year, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) revealed ambitious plans to gain power in the US political system.

"There is Islamophobia [in the U.S.] that is so deeply rooted in the culture, in academia, in Hollywood, in the portrayal of Islam,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a speech at the East Plano Islamic Center. “For hundreds of years, Islam has been denigrated, the Prophet has been smeared and defamed in books and textbooks that were taught in public schools, that Allah be praised, we have been working to eliminate and change.”

Awad revealed the organization's plan to create an “army” of 50,000 academics, journalists, and lawyers to create pro-Islam narratives.

“If we commit to do this, four years from now, the Muslim community will have 4,000 new journalists, we will have 4,000 filmmakers, 4,000 lawyers, 4,000 students of political science, 4,000 students of history,” he said.

Within the decade, CAIR hopes to start carving out a major Muslim presence in the US government.

“We can have in ten years, at least 40-50 members of Congress — in the US Congress.”

CAIR, which busies itself with accusing Americans of “Islamophobia,” has been a longtime supporter of Hamas. As early as 1994, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad endorsed the terror group. Last year, he cheered the October 7th massacre of some 1,200 Israelis by Hamas.

Awad and CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmad both have ties to Hamas through the Islamic Association of Palestine. In 2014, the United Arab Emirates designated CAIR as a terror organization for its ties to Hamas’ parent network, the Muslim Brotherhood.

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