As even the New York Times is acknowledging, Palestinian special interest groups have taken over all the other special interest groups to become the Most Special Special Interest Group protesting both inside and outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. I drove to Chicago a few days ago to watch the demonstrations. Even though I witnessed a similar flagrant and pro-Hamas terrorist takeover of the “Stop Cop City” movement in Atlanta several months ago, I was surprised by the thoroughness of the Palestinian activist takeover here.
The first protest in Chicago was held yesterday, the day before the Democratic Convention. As a pre-convention event, it was a sort of a sop from the city to two specific Democratic special interest groups: pro-choice feminists and LGBTQ+ activists. Nevertheless, by the time the protest began, abortion and LGBTQ+ were taking a tiny back seat to the Palestinians, which led to some pretty perplexing images and slogans, since neither feminists nor gay activists are especially welcomed by Islamists. And to be entirely clear, the USPCN, or U.S. Palestinian Community Network, (or, suddenly, the first organization listed on all the flyers for the entire Coalition to March on the DNC), is radical Islamist to its core. Hattam Abudayyem, who is the National Chair for USPCN, recently bemoaned the fact that the current Mayor of Chicago wasn’t Jewish, because then they could really throw down on the streets of Chicago. Or, as Hattam colorfully put it: ...
