The slogan “Death to America” is seemingly gaining steam among anti-Israel agitators, who have swept across the nation.
The anti-Israel demonstrations that have spread across the country have taken on an anti-American tenor in recent weeks, with students at the University of Michigan who were participating in the protests being given pamphlets titled “10 anarchist theses on Palestine solidarity in the United States,” which included a page that stated, “Freedom for Palestine means Death to America.”
The pamphlets come as anti-Israel protests have continued to gain steam, leading to multiple days-long “encampments” at some of the most elite colleges and universities in the United States.
But such rhetoric has not been limited to college campuses, with similar slogans being chanted in nearby Dearborn, Michigan, during a recent rally on the last Friday of Ramadan.
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“Imam Khomeini, who declared the International Al-Quds Day, this is why he would say to pour all of your chants and all of your shouts upon the head of America,” Tarek Bazzi, a Michigan-based activist associated with the Hadi institute, said in a video before leading rallygoers in chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”
The protests have spread at a rapid pace since a Hamas terrorist attack on Israel in October, becoming part of a growing movement that one expert believes can be traced in part to wavering support for Israel among top Democrats.
“The recent change of possible U.S. policy … the pressure that Biden is under, and then also Democrats going down from Senator Schumer to Pelosi, people that have been very stalwart, always pro-Israel seem to be turning,” Steven Stalinsky, the executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), told Fox News Digital.
While the protests have been called “mostly peaceful,” participants in the demonstrations have been heard making antisemitic chants or rallying in support of the terrorist group Hamas.
