Steven Landek rented SeatGeek Stadium to American Muslims for Palestine, then praised police while Palestinian activists, Antifa, the People’s Defense Corps, and Corriente Popular stoned a legal protest, hit a 70-year-old pastor in the head, kicked and spray-painted vehicles, and set off an explosive. Hispanic gangs showed up in anti-ICE rammer trucks. No one was arrestedBRIDGEVIEW, Ill. — Mayor Steven Landek wants Sunday remembered as a celebration. His statement said Palestine Fest was “an overwhelmingly positive day,” that the protests “ended with no arrests,” and that Bridgeview police should be proud.Then he added the line the video breaks: “But let me be very, very clear about this. We condemn any hateful message and any mischaracterization of our strong, vibrant, and united community. We will not tolerate violence or other behavior that threatens the safety of our community.”What reporters and witnesses saw was a rock fight in the village that just branded a stretch of Harlem Avenue “Little Palestine Way.” The men throwing rocks were from the crowd Landek called united. The rocks were the violence he said he would not tolerate.Photo provided to The Gateway PunditAn explosive went off in that parking lot. This reporter has the video. A 70-year-old pastor was hit in the head with a large rock. Photos of that injury will run with this story. Landek mentions “projectiles” and two people treated. He does not mention a blast or a pastor.Photo provided to The Gateway PunditWATCH:!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src="https://rumble.com/embedJS/u5o49d"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+"/?url="+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+"&args="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, "script", "Rumble");Rumble("play", {"video":"v7ec0fi","div":"rumble_v7ec0fi"});The other side was smaller than the message. Local Christian protesters were identified by Antifa organizers before the event, threatened, and told to denounce it.In some cases, the plan relayed to them was to send Antifa to their homes. People stayed home. Empty the other side before the first rock, then call the remainder a handful of extremists. On September 22, 2025, President Trump designated Antifa a domestic terrorist organization for using political violence to shut down lawful activity. Bridgeview was a local copy.American Muslims for Palestine Chicago held the stadium contract. Chairman Hatem Bazian told NBC Chicago it was “open to everyone.”Pre-event promotion of the bloc defending the festival, named the People’s Defense Corps and Corriente Popular, a communist organization.The flyer used the line “In the Spirit of the Resistance.” CAIR attacked Jake Lang’s march before it started. Antifa supplied the street muscle. Palestinian activists supplied the crowd, the flags, and the rocks.Someone paid for two digital billboard trucks and pointed them at Lang. One called him a pedophile.Landek later told the Sun-Times he “didn’t know the controversy was going to occur.” He knew who he signed with. He spent the weekend condemning the protesters’ “bigotry and hate-filled rhetoric” and praising Palestinian businesses.He did not condemn the rock through a windshield, the kicked and spray-painted vehicles, or the rock that hit a pastor. He did not mention Hamas or the home threats.Photo provided to The Gateway PunditIn April 2004, while Hamas’s second intifada was still blowing up buses, Hatem Bazian shouted in San Francisco: “How come we don’t have an intifada in this country?… It’s about time we have an intifada in this country… well, you haven’t seen radicalism yet.” Bazian later told Bill O’Reilly he meant a “political” intifada.In October 2023, asked on camera by Asra Nomani if he condemned Hamas for killing about 1,400 Israelis, Bazian refused. His answer was “I like falafel.” He also would not condemn kidnapping and murdering civilians.In 2017 he retweeted a meme of an Orthodox Jew captioned “I can now kill, rape, smuggle organs & steal the land,” hashtagged “#Ashke-Nazi,” then said he had not read it. AMP is in a Chicago federal case accusing it of being the successor to a group already found liable for Hamas support.The mosque is the local half of that record. Jamal Said, principal imam of the Mosque Foundation since the 1980s, was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case. HLF leaders were convicted in 2008 of sending more than $12 million to Hamas.The Chicago Tribune, from a translated tape, reported that in 2000 Said asked a crowd to donate in memory of a Palestinian suicide bomber.In 2003, he raised about $50,000 at the Bridgeview mosque for Sami Al-Arian, later convicted of supporting Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and called Israel “a foreign, malignant and strange element on the blessed land.”Former imam Kifah Mustapha, also an unindicted co-conspirator, admitted he was a registered HLF agent in Illinois. A trial exhibit shows him singing “O mother, Hamas for Jihad.”Former mosque president Rafeeq Jaber ran the Islamic Association for Palestine, hit with a $156 million judgment over Hamas ties. The mosque donated about $374,000 to charities later shut down over terrorism allegations.ABC7 reported counter-protesters launching rocks. The Sun-Times reported water bottles thrown near the stadium.Witnesses saw batteries and handmade glitter bombs thrown with the rocks. Antifa was in the crowd doing the throwing, beside Palestinian activists, the People’s Defense Corps, and Corriente Popular. Hispanic gangs rolled in with anti-ICE rammer trucks.Video from the lot shows it. One clip has a rock in the air toward a truck carrying a “Little Palestine is a disgrace” sign, then the windshield spiderwebbed from the hit.A second shows a man in a thobe and a Bears jersey mid-throw. A third shows the 70-year-old with the crown-of-thorns tattoo ducking, then the bloody cut over his eye. Police are in the background. They are standing there.WGN photojournalist LJ Tabano said it blew up when the targeted group tried to leave under police escort. Protesters swarmed the caravan. Silly string hit the vehicles.They were kicked and spray-painted. CBS Chicago confirmed a truck windshield was broken. An explosive detonated. Landek admits two people needed medical care and two officers took minor injuries.Lang told the Chicago Tribune that two of his protesters needed stitches and four vehicles were damaged. He said he had worked with Police Chief Ricardo Mancha ahead of the protest, then said the department failed them. He called Landek and the department “weak and feckless” for failing to arrest the counter-protesters.“No arrests” is the cover. A rock or a battery thrown at a person is a battery. A rock through an occupied windshield is a crime. Spray-painting a vehicle is a crime. Hitting a pastor in the head is a crime.The Sun-Times reported at least two people detained. The Tribune’s photos show a detention and a pepper-spraying. Detained and released is not nothing happened.The protesters who showed up went home alive because this is still Illinois, not Gaza. A Catholic procession outside a mosque in Gaza does not end with a press release. It ends with a funeral.The crowd imported the tactic — threaten the house, then stones, batteries, glitter bombs, an explosive, kicked and spray-painted cars — and the mayor who put up “Welcome to Little Palestine” signs said he would not tolerate violence.Officers escorted the caravan and watched a windshield cave in. A pastor was hit. An explosive went off. Two officers were hurt. Nobody was booked. In Little Palestine, one side gets a stadium rental and a mayoral absolution. The other side gets rocks.The post Mayor of ‘Little Palestine’ Condemns Violence as Video Shows Rocks Thrown at Protesters and No Arrests appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.