Women’s March leader and flagrant anti-Semite Linda Sarsour responded last night to reignited criticism that she is indeed an anti-Semite. In doing so, she was predictably shameless, authoritarian, obfuscating, and deflective.
Sarsour has specifically been criticized for her and fellow Women’s March leader Tamika Mallory’s ties to Louis Farrakhan, who as recently as a month ago compared Jews to ” termites.” You may also recall that Sarsour has previously promulgated the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Jews cannot be loyal because of their ” allegiance to Israel.” She has also advocated for Rasmea Odeh, a Jordanian-Palestinian terrorist who killed two Jews in a bombing. Yet she refuses to either defend or distance herself from Farrakhan.
“Instead of coming together [after the Tree of Life shooting] as a country to call out white supremacy and the violence being inspired by this administration — the deflection went to a black man who has no institutional power,” wrote Sarsour in her open letter, referring to Farrakhan. “[T]his is a feature of white supremacy,” she asserted.
But Sarsour’s trick is getting old fast. Instead of distinctly acknowledging that anti-Semitism possibly predates all other forms of racism in human history, she wraps it up in whiteness, insisting that Jews and friends of Jews horrified by Farrakhan and Sarsour’s toxic anti-Semitic rhetoric are really just anti-black instead of pro-Jew.
“Stay focused,” Sarsour wrote toward the end of the letter. “The real threat is white nationalism and white supremacy.”
The subtext here of course is that anyone criticizing her is a white supremacist. Sarsour sounds like an authoritarian trying to gaslight the public because that’s exactly what she is.
Unfortunately, that didn’t stop actress and activist Alyssa Milano from wavering in her recent rejection of Sarsour and uncritically sharing the letter. Even Ariel Sobel, the progressive Jewish reporter for the Advocate, who got Milano to denounce the leadership of the Women’s March, wrote of Sarsour’s letter, “There is a ton of deflecting and self-centering. But there is some progress.”
As someone who knows Sobel personally and is deeply familiar with her relentless activism for sex abuse victims, I feel the need to warn her and all other progressive Jews grappling with left-wing anti-Semitism: The Women’s March doesn’t want you.
Hmm… would it occur to anyone in the media to ask her what she would choose… the Constitution or Islam?
The anti-Semitism of the left continues to grow and become more mainstream. Being anti-Semitic is not a deal breaker for a liberal in an election.
The Left continues to “eat its own.”
Here, we see that Muslims are ranked higher on the victim-status ladder than Jews.
Jews had been a mainstay of the Dem party for decades while Muslims are Johnny-come-latelies.
Dems/Libs can’t imagine Jews are going to go anywhere else no matter how badly they are treated on the Dem plantation.
But Dems are wrong.
#Walkaway is alive and well ….and growing.