How the Pro-Palestinian Movement is Politically Active in Texas

TLDR; The Pro-Palestine movement in Austin, TX is the most politically active in the state. Dramatically so. They are used a City Commission to open the discussion they wanted to have at City Hall. Who needs to know this? Who can use the open source software that allowed us to see this?

I thought y'all may be interested in what I've created. Austin, TX does not make the news like NYC, LA, Toronto, or London when it comes to events in the Middle East. However, there's a lot going on under the radar because it's the state Capital and it can get pretty unseemly. I was shocked at the anger, hate, and lies spewed by the Pro-Palestinian crowd at a Austin City Council meeting I attended last year, so I wanted to analyze what they said.

Austin, We Have a Problem.

I created an open source software utility called Open Meeting Speaker Analyzer (find it on github), that uses what I call Private AI to download, transcribe, and then report on the sentiment of the Public Comments section of Austin City Council Meetings. Here's what I learned by looking at speakers who addressed Austin City Council from October 2023 to January 2026 concerning a proposed resolution calling for a cease fire in Gaza that came from the Austin Human Rights Commission:

180 On Topic Speakers

73% Pro Palestine

26% Pro Isreal

1% Neutral

23% Of all speakers addressing Austin City Council spoke on Gaza.

Of all those speakers, there was only ONE Pro Palestinian speaker that acknowledge hostages and he was a Jewish. Many of the Pro-Israel speakers acknowledged the tragedy that has befallen the Palestinians.

Let that sink in.

The Pro-Palestinian movement is the embodiment of the Khartoum Resolution that the Arab League passed in 1967: No Peace, No Negotiation, No Recognition (of Israel), except they apply this to humans.

They will not talk to anyone who disagrees with them. They'll yell at them, call them baby killers, and threaten. But they won't engage.

The reason people could speak about Gaza at City Council Meetings because there was a resolution that City Council refused to hear. The resolution came out of the the Austin Human Rights Commission. The speakers at the AHRC meeting that brought the ceasefire resolution broke down like this:

14 Pro-Palestinian Speakers

0 Pro-Israel Speakers

0 Neutral Speakers

This is how democracy gets hijacked. Because to be clear, the Pro-Palestinian movement isn't interested in free speech or debate. I've tried to engage with them and have direct experience with their bad behavior...but that's a whole other story.

I then wanted to see how this compares to other cities in Texas, so I made a connector to the public comments section of City Council for Houston and Dallas. Here are the results:

Houston

3 On Topic Speakers

67% Pro Palestine

9% Pro Isreal

33% Neutral

0.6% Of all speakers addressing Houston City Council spoke on Gaza.

Dallas

31 On Topic Speakers

81% Pro Palestine

16% Pro Isreal

3% Neutral

2.8% Of all speakers addressing Dallas City Council spoke on Gaza.

The difference is dramatic:

Number of Speakers by City

City # Speakers Pro-Pal Pro-Isr Neutral

---- ---------- ------- ------- --------

Austin 180 131 47 2

Dallas 31 25 5 1

Houston 3 2 0 1

Austin is particularly active, which is weird if all you do is follow the news. The action is happening in Dallas (with the formerly named Epic City) and Houston.

You can find the open source Open Meeting Speaker Analyzer that at:

https://github.com/joelontheroad/Speaker-Analyzer

I've attached the executive briefing report as sample of the program's output. There's also a detailed report and a Semantic Argument report which lists all the arguments made and the number of speakers who made them.

I need your help. Who needs to see this information? Who needs to use the program? It's like an instant focus group for public sentiment in politics.

Thanks for listening.

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