Back in August, Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib gave a vile, anti-American diatribe to the People’s Conference for Palestine. Over three months later, on Wednesday, Snopes’s Jack Izzo would ride to her rescue and give a “false” label to those who claimed she “publicly called for Hamas supporters to mobilize and take over America.” Izzo’s rating only came about after some straw man burning, omission of key facts about the conference in question, and attacks on the source.
According to Izzo, the claim he was checking was a series of social media posts that “claimed that Tlaib had called on supporters of Hamas, a Palestinian militant group that the U.S. government has designated a terrorist organization, to 'mobilize and take over America.'"
He then embedded one such post that said, in part, “Rep. Rashida Tlaib calls for Hamas supporters to mobilize and take over America. She said she hates that she works in a building for a country that was built on slavery, genocide, rape, and oppression.”
Rep. Rashida Tlaib calls for Hamas supporters to mobilize and take over America. She said she hates that she works in a building for a country that was built on slavery, genocide, rape and oppression.
— ❤🎹 Ames 🎹❤ (@Real_Ames) November 30, 2025
She was speaking at the People’s Conference for Palestine in… pic.twitter.com/b1VRRGMqnf
Nowhere did the user put quote marks around “mobilize and take over America,” but it was close enough to Tlaib’s actual remarks, “Real change doesn't come from the cowards and warmongers in Congress. It comes from the streets, it comes from all of us mobilizing and seizing the power to resist and fight back.”
In the next paragraph, the user quotes Tlaib directly, “She was speaking at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit—essentially a Hamas fan convention—and snarled at the crowd, 'We ain’t going anywhere, motherf***ers,' while they chanted about 'globalizing the intifada' and 'seizing power' in America.”
The quotes from Tlaib about slavery, genocide, rape, “we ain’t going anywhere,” and “seizing power” are accurate, and we know this because Izzo quotes them himself later on in the article. Furthermore, the idea that the conference is a Hamas fan convention isn’t unique to an anonymous right-wing X user. The Anti-Defamation League agrees, and any honest observer would find that hard to argue with.
Nevertheless, Izzo tried to claim, “Supporters of Israel sometimes equate support for the civilian population in Palestine and opposition to genocide with support for Hamas. Some critics describe that as a false equivalence.”
However, instead of checking the substance of the claim, Izzo also sought to attack the source, as if that makes any difference to the claim’s truthfulness, “Many clips of Tlaib's speech contained watermarks for Canary Mission, an anonymously run website that The New York Times described as doxing (sharing someone's personal details for the purpose of public shaming and ridicule) people and organizations it considers to ‘promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews.’
It is hard for many people, including journalists, who call themselves anti-war, to realize that so many of their supposed allies are actually pro-war; they just support the other side and demand a ceasefire because their side is losing. Still, such people exist, and they spoke at the conference Tlaib spoke at, and highlighting that does not deserve a “false” label.
