A Palestinian extremist once jailed for attempted murder is slated to speak at the Detroit People’s Conference for Palestine later this month about “prisoners’ struggle in Zionist prisons.”
Hussam Shaheen, 53, is among two former prisoners who will attend the event starting on Aug. 29, with the man set to discuss his two decades in Israeli jail following his 2004 conviction for attempted murder.
Shaheen was released on Feb. 1 as part of a prisoner swap in exchange for living and dead hostages of the Oct. 7 terror attack. 3
Along with Shaheen, the People’s Conference for Palestine also invited Omar Assaf, 75, a former official of the left-wing Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine group, the Jerusalem Post reported .
The event, in its second year, is billed as a way