Reporter’s Notebook: Outside Detroit’s Palestine Conference, Extremism and Denial Surface A pro-Palestinian gathering in Detroit drew thousands, but the rhetoric from speakers and some attendees linked the event to groups accused of extremism By Aaron Poris / The Media Line [Detroit] The sidewalks outside Huntington Place in downtown Detroit were alive with motion all weekend. […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: Outside Detroit’s Palestine Conference, Extremism and Denial Surface
A pro-Palestinian gathering in Detroit drew thousands, but the rhetoric from speakers and some attendees linked the event to groups accused of extremism
By Aaron Poris / The Media Line
[Detroit] The sidewalks outside Huntington Place in downtown Detroit were alive with motion all weekend. Caravans of buses had been promised, but many never materialized; I met attendees who shrugged and told me they’d cobbled together their own travel after “organized” groups fizzled out. Still, by the organizers’ count, some 4,000 people made their way to the second annual “People’s Conference for Palestine: Gaza is the Compass.” Families with children in tow, students with keffiyehs draped over their shoulders, and activists with clipboards streamed through the doors.
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