Anti-Israel activists were heard chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” at a rally in a Michigan city recently dubbed the “jihad capital” of the US.
The sick chants erupted at a rally Friday in Dearborn marking Al Quds Day, in which Muslims around the world denounce Israel, according to a video posted by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
They came after Dearborn activist Tarek Bazzi ripped the US for supporting Israel — and told the crowd that “the chant ‘Death to Israel’ has become the most logical chant across the world today.
“Imam Khomeini, who declared International Al Quds Day, this is why he would say to pour all of your chants and all of your shots upon the head of America,” Bazzi said of former Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini as chants of “Death to America” started.
“It’s not Genocide Joe that has to go,” he continued, referring to President Biden.
“It’s the entire system that has to go.”
Bazzi said that “any system that would allow such atrocities and such devilry to happen and would support it — such a system does not deserve to exist on God’s Earth.
“So when these fools ask us if Israel has the right to exist … the chant ‘Death to Israel’ has become the most logical chant across the world today,” he said, spurring his supporters to start chanting for the end of the Jewish nation.
His comments were followed at the rally by Imam Usama Abdulghani, who declared: “Israel is ISIS, Israel — they are Nazis, they are fascists, they are racists.
“The people of the world now know this,” the imam said.
In recent months, Dearborn — which has the largest Muslim population in the United States, according to the US Census — has become a hotbed of anti-Israel sentiment.
Residents there led efforts to vote “uncommitted” in the Democratic primary rather than vote for Biden, in protest of his support for Israel.
MEMRI executive director Steven Stalinsky even branded the city “America’s jihad capital” in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece in February.
“Almost immediately after” Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, “people were celebrating the horrific events of that day in pro-Hamas rallies and marches throughout Dearborn,” he wrote.
Stalinsky also claimed that religious leaders in the city have called for the extermination of Israel.
Republican state Rep. Phil Green has since also acknowledged that there is a growing problem of anti-Israel and anti-American sentiment in Dearborn, telling Fox News it saddens him to see “the world’s problems coming to our doorstep.”
He said the majority of the citizens are peaceful and do not promote violence, but acknowledged that local politicians should continue to keep an eye on the more radical population.
