{"id":2217307,"date":"2024-04-10T11:33:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elissa-slotkin-under-fire-for-weak-response-to-pro-hamas-rally\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T11:34:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:34:19","slug":"elissa-slotkin-under-fire-for-weak-response-to-pro-hamas-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elissa-slotkin-under-fire-for-weak-response-to-pro-hamas-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Elissa Slotkin Faces Criticism for Handling of Pro-Hamas Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felissa-slotkin-under-fire-for-weak-response-to-pro-hamas-rally%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2217307&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin faced criticism for her delayed response to a pro-terrorist rally in Dearborn, where activists chanted &#8216;death to America&#8217; \u200cand &#8216;death to Israel&#8217;. Slotkin, running for \u2063U.S. Senate, denounced the &#8216;hateful language&#8217; four days after the event, stating it has no place in \u2063communities. Critics called her response too little, too late. Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin received backlash for her delayed reaction to a pro-terrorist rally in Dearborn, marked by chants of &#8216;death to America&#8217; and &#8216;death to Israel&#8217;. \u2063Slotkin eventually condemned the \u200c&#8217;hateful language&#8217; four days \u200bafter the rally, emphasizing\u200b it is unacceptable in communities. Critics deemed her \u200cresponse belated\u2062 and insufficient.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Michigan Dem Senate candidate denounces &#8216;hateful language&#8217; four days after rally where activists chanted &#8216;death to Israel and America&#8217;<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tRep. Elissa Slotkin (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Democratic representative Elissa Slotkin (Mich.), a candidate for U.S. Senate, is facing criticism for her &#8220;weak response&#8221; to a pro-terrorist rally in Dearborn, two months after she denied that the city was becoming a hotbed for anti-American radicalism.<\/p>\n<p>Slotkin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepSlotkin\/status\/1777668053154554171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denounced<\/a> &#8220;hateful language,&#8221; four days after the &#8220;Al-Quds Day&#8221; rally on April 5 in the heavily Muslim city of Dearborn. At the event, activists chanted &#8220;death to America,&#8221; &#8220;death to Israel,&#8221; and praised the former supreme leader of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The congresswoman said that &#8220;hateful language has no place in our communities, no matter the cause,&#8221; adding that the &#8220;statements do not reflect the views of Michigan\u2019s communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her comments were more reserved than some other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/terrorist-holding-four-hostages-at-texas-synagogue\/\" title=\"Terrorist Holding Four Hostages at Texas Synagogue\">local community leaders<\/a>. They come as Slotkin has called for an Israeli ceasefire and sought to placate Muslim voters in Michigan, who make up a large portion of the state\u2019s Democratic voting bloc. Dr. Mahmoud Al-Hadidi, the chairman of the Michigan Muslim Community Council, said the rally chants &#8220;should be investigated as hate speech&#8221; and denounced them as &#8220;very dangerous,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/news\/community-leaders-denounce-death-to-america-chants-during-dearborn-rally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> Fox 2 in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans and critics on social media slammed Slotkin\u2019s comments as too little and too late, noting that she <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2023\/10\/rep-elissa-slotkin-met-with-islamic-center-that-blamed-israel-for-hamas-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">met with<\/a> members of an Islamic center that blamed Israel for &#8220;spark[ing] the deadly violence&#8221; of Hamas\u2019s terrorist attacks on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This you?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/1777681268009787752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> Republican operative Steve Guest on Twitter, posting a headline about Slotkin\u2019s meeting with the group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Took you long enough to come out with a statement,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dgoldwas\/status\/1777679803409166666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> another Twitter user. &#8220;Did you have to focus group test it first?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KPBeachGirl\/status\/1777686326516564437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Slotkin was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stanfords-handling-of-dei-dean-is-a-microcosm-of-a-much-larger-problem-in-higher-education\/\" title=\"Stanford\u2019s Handling Of DEI Dean Is A Microcosm Of A Much Larger Problem In Higher Education\">allowing hate speech<\/a> to &#8220;fester with a weak response like this. Pathetic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Slotkin\u2019s comments come days after she called on Israel to halt its military operation against Hamas, and two months after she rejected claims that Islamic radicalism is on the rise in Dearborn.<\/p>\n<p>The congresswoman denounced a <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/welcome-to-dearborn-americas-jihad-capital-pro-hamas-michigan-counterterrorism-a99dba38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a> in February, written by the director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, which called Dearborn &#8220;America\u2019s Jihad Capital.&#8221; The column reported that residents across the city celebrated Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7 attacks in Israel and noted that the &#8220;radical politics are complicating Mr. Biden\u2019s path to re-election&#8221; in the swing state of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bigotry. Hatred. Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepSlotkin\/status\/1753973513877090542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Slotkin. &#8220;If the headline was about any other minority\u2014with the worst stereotype of that group\u2014it would have never gotten through the editors at the WSJ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Slotkin\u2019s positions on Israel drew criticism on Tuesday from Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you surprised? While protesters chant \u2018death to America,\u2019 Elissa Slotkin calls Rashida Tlaib a \u2018bad ass,\u2019 meets with individuals who blamed Israel for Hamas\u2019s terrorist attack just days later, and voted against direct aid for Israel,&#8221; Rogers spokesman Chris Gustafson told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>At the Dearborn rally last week, speaker Tarek Bazzi called on the crowd to &#8220;pour all of your chants and all of your shouts upon the head of America,&#8221; prompting chants of &#8220;death to America&#8221; and &#8220;death to Israel.&#8221; He added that the United States &#8220;does not deserve to exist on God&#8217;s earth.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>Another speaker, Imam Usama Abdulghani, called Israel &#8220;a cancer&#8221; and praised the former supreme leader of Iran Ruhollah Khomeini for &#8220;recogniz[ing] that Israel is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/protesters-at-islamic-event-in-americas-jihad-capital-chant-death-to-america\/\" title=\"Protesters at Islamic Event in \"America's Jihad Capital\" chant \"Death to America!\">evil settler colonialist project<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israel is ISIS, they are Nazis, they are fascists, they are racists. The people of the world now know this,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin condemns &#8216;hateful language&#8217; four days post rally with chants of &#8216;death to Israel and America&#8217;. Criticism follows her delayed reaction to the event. Slotkin, a Democratic representative from Michigan running for U.S. Senate, receives backlash for her handling of the pro-terrorist rally in Dearborn, despite denying it months earlier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":2217308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/house-subcommittee-holds-a-hearing-on-ai-on-the-battlefield-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/house-subcommittee-holds-a-hearing-on-ai-on-the-battlefield-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2217308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}