Insurance company GEICO has dropped former Women&#8217;s March co-chair Linda Sarsour from an internal event sponsored by its Diversity &amp; Inclusion division over concerns about Sarsour&#8217;s long track record of anti-Semitic rhetoric.
GEICO&#8217;s D&amp;I divison had originally planned an event celebrating Middle Eastern and North African Heritage Month with an event featuring Sarsour. Screenshots of an email sent by the company to employees were shared on Twitter by <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1511796634027495438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1511796634027495438%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FStopAntisemites2Fstatus2F1511796634027495438widget%3DTweet">StopAntisemitism.org</a> Wednesday. &#8220;We are horrified a respectable company like @GEICO would choose to feature antisemitic bigot @lsarsour to represent the MENA region. Sarsour had to step down from the Women&#8217;s March due to her open Jew hatred! What was [VP and Chief Diversity Officer] Carl Tims thinking here?!&#8221;
Both StopAntisemitism.org and the <a href="https://twitter.com/AJCGlobal/status/1512045111399620610">American Jewish Committee</a> (AJC) called on GEICO to remove Sarsour from the event. &#8220;@LSarsour&#8217;s extensive record of trafficking in incendiary, antisemitic comments about the Jewish people and Israel makes her utterly unfit to be the face of @GEICO&#8217;s ‘diversity &amp; inclusion’ campaign,&#8221; the AJC wrote. &#8220;We call on the company to reconsider her participation.&#8221; Jewish community advocacy group <a href="https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1512003996579422214?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1512003996579422214%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FStandWithUs2Fstatus2F1512003996579422214widget%3DTweet">StandWithUs</a> and Anti-Defamation League CEO <a href="https://twitter.com/JGreenblattADL/status/1511889120955535363">Jonathan Greenblatt</a> also posted Twitter threads showcasing Sarsour&#8217;s history of anti-Semitic remarks.
GEICO responded to the backlash Thursday, announcing on <a href="https://twitter.com/GEICO/status/1512073098987597834">Twitter</a> that it was removing Sarsour from its event. “We apologize to our employees, customers, and others for our initial plan to invite Linda Sarsour to speak at our internal event celebrating Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Heritage Month,&#8221; the company wrote, adding that it had already canceled the event Tuesday. “GEICO does not condone hatred of any kind, and we do not stand for or with anyone who does. We are not aligned with any form of exclusion. We will continue to celebrate MENA Heritage Month in a way that aligns with our values.”
Jewish leaders praised GEICO&#8217;s course-correct:
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/JGreenblattADL/status/1512113606464352264">Jonathan Greenblatt</a>: &#8220;Glad @Geico heard our concerns and quickly reversed course. Major companies should not partner with individuals who repeatedly espouse #antisemitic tropes. @ADL welcomes this development.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/1512099130495098880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1512099130495098880%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FAviMayer2Fstatus2F1512099130495098880widget%3DTweet">Avi Mayer</a>, AJC Managing Director of Public Affairs: &#8220;We spoke up and now @GEICO gets it: @LSarsour represents hate and has no place in an event celebrating diversity and inclusion. Bravo!&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/BnaiBrith/status/1512146494362640389">B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith International</a>: &#8220;While we remain shocked that @GEICO invited vile anti-Semite Linda Sarsour to represent the MENA region, we are glad the co. listened to the Jewish community and canceled its event. Orgs. must take steps to prevent similar missteps, e.g., adopting @TheIHRA def. of #antisemitism.&#8221;</li>
<li>Former New York State Assemblyman <a href="https://twitter.com/HikindDov/status/1512094896282292231">Dov Hikind</a>: &#8220;@GEICO did the right thing and wasted no time in getting rid of Sarsour’s toxicity. Let this be a lasting lesson: Linda Sarsour is a shameless racist, antisemite who cannot be cleansed of her hatred without fully repenting. Until then, good riddance!&#8221;</li>
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Sarsour was previously forced to step down from the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/us/womens-march-anti-semitism.html">Women&#8217;s March</a> in 2019, along with fellow co-chairs Tamika Mallory, and Bob Bland over concerns about their <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/intersectionality-fight-founder-womens-march-calls-hank-berrien">anti-Semitic</a> and anti-LGBT rhetoric. Sarsour herself has repeatedly used anti-Semitic rhetoric in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sarsour-venomously-attacks-jews-again-hank-berrien">public</a>, including multiple occasions at the March <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-womens-march-leaders-promote-anti-semitism-ryan-saavedra">itself</a>. She has also made anti-Semitic and other offensive remarks repeatedly on social media. As StandWithUs pointed out in its 2020 thread, Sarsour in 2011 <a href="https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1296406028813307904?s=20&amp;t=sDjrum-t2h5RvU8wKJ6Tcg">said</a> she wished she could take away the vaginas of Islam critics Brigitte Gabriel and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, which StandWithUs noted was especially offensive because Hirsi Ali is a survivor of female genital mutilation. She attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/linda-sarsour-attacks-white-feminist-nancy-pelosi-emily-zanotti">typical white feminist</a>&#8221; in 2019 for criticizing Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/social-media-erupts-after-linda-sarsour-pushes-antisemitic-conspiracy-in-surfside-collapse">promoted</a> an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about the apartment building collapse in Surfside, Florida, in June 2021.

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Women’s March cofounder Linda Sarsour was barraged with criticism after she promoted an antisemitic conspiracy about the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, on Twitter.
On June 27, an expert recovery team with the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) joined emergency crews in Surfside, Florida, to rescue survivors and pull bodies from the wreckage of a collapsed condominium. On Monday, Sarsour shared and appeared to endorse a tweet questioning the IDF’s involvement in the rescue operation and accusing the Jewish military of targeting civilians.
“I really don’t understand the [Israeli Defense Force’s] involvement in rescue attempts of people tragically crushed under buildings in Miami. Their expertise is crushing buildings with people in them, not rescuing them,” said a tweet retweeted and promoted by Sarsour.
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Here is the tweet Linda Sarsour deleted and the response from <a href="https://twitter.com/dannydanon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dannydanon</a>. <a href="https://t.co/sHN1hFcxe9">pic.twitter.com/sHN1hFcxe9</a>
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Sarsour later deleted her tweet and announced that she was taking “a few days” break from Twitter because of the backlash she received.
“I’ll be back in a few days. This site is a place where those with no morals or values can take someone’s tweet &amp; claim higher ground with no reflection or retrospection on the atrocities and injustice they support on a daily basis,” Sarsour <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/1412220920060694546">said</a>.
Israel’s former U.N. representative Danny Danon blasted the Women’s March founder, <a href="https://twitter.com/dannydanon/status/1412176228736552961">tweeting</a>, “Do not expect those who worship violence and death to understand those who value life. The IDF, Israel&#8217;s army, the most moral army in the world, will always stand by our allies in times of need.&#8221;
Jerusalem Post columnist Emily Schrader <a href="https://twitter.com/emilykschrader/status/1412174656937902090">said</a>, “Imagine being such a small person you’re mad about people you don’t like saving lives. Linda Sarsour is mad the IDF is saving lives in #Miami. Remember that.”
Michael Dickson, executive director of the pro-Israel group Stand With Us, <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldickson/status/1412156139396083725">added</a>, “Shame on Linda Sarsour for this evil, heartless tweet, compounding the victims pain at a time when many Jewish people are still buried under rubble in #surfside, and while Israeli &amp; American first responders work side by side to help them and their neighbors from all backgrounds.”
Sarsour was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/absolutely-our-party-democrats-embrace-linda-sarsour-at-national-convention">granted</a> a speaking slot at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, one year after she was forced out of the Women’s March organization because of her history of antisemitism. President Joe Biden issued a statement after her appearance at the conventions <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-condemns-linda-sarsour-after-she-speaks-at-dnc">condemning</a> her.
“Joe Biden has been a strong supporter of Israel and a vehement opponent of anti-Semitism his entire life, and he obviously condemns her views and opposes BDS, as does the Democratic platform,” a Biden spokesman said at the time. “She has no role in the Biden campaign whatsoever.”
Sarsour has been allied with some of the most prominent members of the Left, such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Sarsour <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-linda-sarsour-stumps-bernie-sanders-elect-molly-prince">campaigned</a> for Sanders during the senator&#8217;s 2020 presidential run. Sarsour also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/linda-sarsour-takes-credit-houses-weakened-anti-kassy-dillon">defended</a> Omar after she trafficked in antisemitism and faced blowback from congressional leaders.

Social Media Erupts After Linda Sarsour Pushes Antisemitic Conspiracy In Surfside Collapse

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While some media figures, including CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo, have defended the police officer&#8217;s use of force in the Ma’Khia Bryant shooting, others, such as former MSNBC host Touré and Women&#8217;s March leader Linda Sarsour, have characterized Bryant&#8217;s violent aggression as a simple schoolyard fight that did not require deadly force.
In his Twitter rant, Touré claimed that as many as four cops were on the scene when the officer shot Bryant and characterized the officer as some lone, trigger-happy aggressor.
&#8220;There were at least four cops on the scene when Ma’Khia was shot. Only one thought to pull out his gun and start firing. None of the others thought that was appropriate. You may think it’s obvious that she had to be shot but 3 out of the 4 officers who were there disagree,&#8221; said Touré.
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There were at least four cops on the scene when Ma’Khia was shot. Only one thought to pull out his gun and start firing. None of the others thought that was appropriate. You may think it’s obvious that she had to be shot but 3 out of the 4 officers who were there disagree.
&mdash; Young Daddy (@Toure) <a href="https://twitter.com/Toure/status/1385283044513288192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Touré then responded to a tweet from Linda Sarsour, who likened the potential stabbing of a teenage girl to a common schoolyard fight.
&#8220;Reflecting on my time as a student at John Jay High School in Brooklyn during the height of gangs in NYC watching unarmed Black women school security officers break up fights between students who had razors, sometimes box cutters &amp; not once did a cop have to come &amp; shoot a kid,&#8221; said Linda Sarsour.
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Reflecting on my time as a student at John Jay High School in Brooklyn during the height of gangs in NYC watching unarmed Black women school security officers break up fights between students who had razors, sometimes box cutters &amp; not once did a cop have to come &amp; shoot a kid.
&mdash; Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/1384920603073855490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Several people have said exactly this today. Just because people are fighting with knives does not mean you have to shoot someone to break it up,&#8221; responded Touré, despite the fact that a black teenage girl could have died if the cop didn&#8217;t intervene.
&#8220;Has the right ever cared about the life of a Black person as much as they now care about the life of the girl in the pink sweatsuit? Her Black life matters to them. Immensely,&#8221; he later added.
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Several people have said exactly this today. Just because people are fighting with knives does not mean you have to shoot someone to break it up. <a href="https://t.co/Ck1sNf2Ai3">https://t.co/Ck1sNf2Ai3</a>
&mdash; Young Daddy (@Toure) <a href="https://twitter.com/Toure/status/1385283817083219972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Has the right ever cared about the life of a Black person as much as they now care about the life of the girl in the pink sweatsuit? Her Black life matters to them. Immensely.
&mdash; Young Daddy (@Toure) <a href="https://twitter.com/Toure/status/1385264541773275141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2021</a></blockquote>
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On Wednesday, Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo shocked the world when they both seemed to agree that the police officer made the right decision to use deadly force in this case.
“We have to be fair about what happens when police arrive at scenes,” Lemon said. “It is tragic that it’s a 16-year-old girl. Just as it is tragic that it’s a 13-year-old in Chicago. When police are chasing people, they don’t know how old they are. And they don’t run and say, ‘How old are you?’ ‘Oh, I’m 13.’ You don’t know that. Or, ‘I’m 16.’”
“When they roll up on the scene, they see people tussling around. Someone has a knife,” he continued. “And their job is to protect and serve. Every life on that scene. And if they see someone who is in the process of taking a life, what is that decision, what decision do they have to make?”
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated for clarity.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-don-lemon-chris-cuomo-agree-ohio-police-officer-had-to-shoot-makiah-bryant">WATCH: Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo Agree Ohio Police Officer Had To Shoot Ma’Khia Bryant</a>

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Last week, the Biden administration announced that — in line with prior administrations — they would be embracing the IHRA’s definition of anti-Semitism.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) have a “<a href="https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definitions-charters/working-definition-antisemitism">working definition</a>” of anti-Semitism:
<blockquote>“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”</blockquote>
To guide its work, they provide a list of examples which “may serve as illustrations.”
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.</li>
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This definition has been adopted or endorsed by multiple countries and organizations across the world, including the United States (since December 2019), United Kingdom (since December 2016), and Germany (since September 2017). The United Nations and European Union have also “expressed support” for the IHRA’s working definition.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Kara McDonald, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/biden-admin-embraces-ihra-anti-semitism-definition-shunned-by-progressives/">announced</a> the Biden administration’s decision, saying “As prior US administrations of both political stripes have done, the Biden Administration embraces and champions the [IHRA’s] working definition [of anti-Semitism]. We applaud the growing number of countries and international bodies that apply it. We urge all that haven’t done so to do likewise.”
Speaking to an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe meeting, McDonald also said, “We must educate ourselves and our communities to recognize anti-Semitism in its many forms, so that we can call hate by its proper name and take effective action. That is why the IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism, with its real-world examples, is such an invaluable tool.״
However, if the Biden administration truly wishes to “recognize anti-Semitism in its many forms,” and “take effective action,” they should explain why multiple prominent anti-Semitic Democrats and Leftist organizations have yet to be condemned by Biden or the Democratic party.
Ilhan Omar
Voted as 2019’s biggest anti-Semite by StopAntisemitism.org, Omar has a consistent history of peddling anti-Semitic rhetoric. She has accused American Jews of possessing <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/ilhan-omars-dual-loyalty-charge-was-anti-semitic/584314/">dual loyalty</a>, alleged that Jews buy their influence with <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/700901834/minnesota-congresswoman-ignites-debate-on-israel-and-anti-semitism">money</a> — “It’s all about the Benjamins” — accused “evil” Israel of having <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/rep-ilhan-omar-defends-2012-tweet-accusing-israel-of-hypnotizing-the-world/">hypnotized the world</a>, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ilhan-omar-israel-bds-movement-iran-sanctions-very-different">supported</a> the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and submitted a resolution in the House of Representatives <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/omar-introduces-resolution-defending-boycotts-of-israel-likens-it-to-boycott-of-nazi-germany-soviet-union">comparing</a> boycotting Israel to boycotting the Nazis.
She remains a member of the House Budget Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Rashida Tlaib
Tlaib has continued to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rashida-tlaib-ilhan-omar-miftah-anti-semitism-israel-palestine-bds-2019-8">associate</a> with open anti-Semites, as well as organizations which have praised Palestinian suicide bombings which target Jewish civilians. She has shared and promoted rhetoric calling for the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/12/02/rashida-tlaibs-all-too-telling-anti-israel-tweet/">destruction</a> of the Jewish state, including the Palestine Liberation Organization’s slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” as well as cartoons mocking Holocaust victims. 
She also supports the BDS movement, has spread <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/tlaib-deletes-retweet-claiming-settlers-killed-boy-found-dead-in-rain-filled-pit/">blood libels</a>, and described a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/13/politics/rashida-tlaib-holocaust-comments/index.html">false</a> history of Israel, saying that the home of Judaism for thousands of years was created out of thin air in the aftermath of the Holocaust, to “create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time.” Tlaib also favors a <a href="https://forward.com/news/breaking-news/408368/michigan-democratic-nominee-endorses-one-state-solution-cuts-to-israeli/">one-state</a> “solution” to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
She remains a member of the House Committee on Financial Services and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
Black Lives Matter
In addition to multiple instances of anti-Semitism during Black Lives Matter marches, such as <a href="https://www.jta.org/2020/10/30/united-states/a-widely-circulated-video-showed-jews-being-harassed-at-black-lives-matter-protest-the-attacker-is-part-of-a-fringe-group">harassment</a>, and <a href="https://youngisrael.org/press-release/young-israel-condemns-anti-semitism-at-black-lives-matter-march/">chants</a> of “Israel, we know you, you murder children, too,” the <a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/24/ask-politifact-black-lives-matter-anti-semitic/">2016 platform</a> of Black Lives Matter claimed that providing aid to Israel is “complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people,” and described Israel as “an apartheid state.” 
In June 2020, Black Lives Matter United Kingdom <a href="https://twitter.com/ukblm/status/1277177624884850689">tweeted</a>, “As Israel moves forward with the annexation of the West Bank, and mainstream British politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism, and Israel’s settler colonial pursuits, we loudly and clearly stand beside our Palestinian comrades. FREE PALESTINE.”
Al Sharpton
As part of a long career of controversy and alleged corruption, “civil rights icon” Al Sharpton has routinely engaged in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/haworth-democrats-obsession-al-sharpton-ian-haworth">anti-Semitic</a> rhetoric. He faced heavy criticism for his role in the Crown Heights race riots of 1991. During the funeral of Gavin Cato, a seven-year-old boy who was accidentally killed by one of the cars in the motorcade of the leader of an Orthodox Jewish Hasidic movement, Sharpton said: “It’s an accident to allow an apartheid ambulance service in the middle of Crown Heights.” During the Crown Heights riots which followed, Yankel Rosenbaum, a 29-year-old Jewish student, was surrounded, beaten and stabbed, later dying in the hospital. Many criticized Sharpton for his role in inflaming tensions, citing remarks such as “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house”.
In March 2000, a House <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-106hconres289ih/html/BILLS-106hconres289ih.htm">resolution</a> was introduced “Condemning the racist and anti-Semitic views of the Reverend Al Sharpton,” and included claims that Sharpton “condoned anti-Semitic views in that protesters from the Reverend Sharpton&#8217;s National Action Network have referred to members of the Jewish faith as ‘bloodsucking [J]ews’, and ‘Jew bastards,’” and “referred to members of the Jewish faith as ‘white interlopers’ and ‘diamond merchants,’” and also criticized his “vicious verbal anti-Semitic attacks directed at members of the Jewish faith, and in particular, a Jewish landlord, arising from a simple landlord-tenant dispute with a black tenant,  incited widespread violence, riots, and the murder of five innocent people.”
The Women’s March
Former national co-chairs of the Women’s March — Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory and Bob Bland — were all “<a href="https://nypost.com/2019/09/21/the-womens-march-still-has-an-anti-semitism-problem/">edged out</a>” from the organization after they “alienated donors and the grassroots with their unapologetic embrace of Louis Farrakhan, despite his notorious anti-Semitism.” <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/courtney-love-linda-sarsour-an-anti-semitic-terrorist/">Sarsour</a>, in particular, has endorsed the BDS movement, supported a one-state solution, and stated in an interview that one cannot be both a feminist and a Zionist, despite the fact that Israel is the only country in the region to offer any form of gender equality.
Zahra Billoo, who then joined the Women’s March board, was quickly removed after past tweets surfaced, including “apartheid Israel kills children as a hobby” and that she saw no “difference between American youth leaving the country to join isis or idf . . . both are murderous, war crime committing terrorist entity.”
Other members of the organization include Charlene Carruthers, who tweeted about a supposed “massacre in Gaza,” and that she is “afraid . . . to speak out against the Israeli occupation [because she’s] witnessed the consequences,” Samia Assad, who retweeted a video with the caption “Israel = worse than the devil,” and Rinku Sen, who wrote a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed criticizing America’s acceptance of the “supremacist aspects of Zionism,” and has also called Zionism a “movement that claims all of the land from Iraq to Egypt for Ashkenazi (white) Jews.”
Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth">@ighaworth</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Biden Vows To ‘Take Effective Action’ Against Anti-Semitism…While Ignoring These Democrat Anti-Semites

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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden condemned former Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour Tuesday night after she spoke at the Democratic National Committee.
Sarsour spoke during a council meeting for the DNC’s “Muslim Delegates and Allies Assembly.” As The Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/18/joe-biden-condemns-former-womens-march-co-chair-linda-sarsour-dnc/">reported</a>, she endorsed Biden on August 11 after he announced Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate.
Sarsour was forced to step down as co-chair of the Women’s March in September 2019 following anti-Semitic comments. The Washington Post at the time <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/09/16/womens-march-cutting-ties-with-three-original-board-members-accused-anti-semitism/">reported</a> that Sarsour, along with co-chairs Bob Bland and Tamika Mallory all stepped down following allegations of anti-Semitism. Sarsour has been a proponent of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. She also once suggested Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born critic of Islam who suffered female genital mutilation, should have her vagina taken away, adding she and a conservative activist “don’t deserve to be women.” Sarsour has also previously said Israel was “built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everybody else.” She accused pro-Israel Americans of marching with the Ku Klux Klan.
After Sarsour spoke at the DNC, a spokesman for Biden’s campaign released a statement saying the former vice president condemned Sarsour’s anti-Semitism.
“Joe Biden has been a strong supporter of Israel and a vehement opponent of anti-Semitism his entire life, and he obviously condemns her views and opposes BDS, as does the Democratic platform,” said campaign spokesman Andrew Bates. “She has no role in the Biden campaign whatsoever.”
Bates referred to the official Democratic Party platform, which states, “We oppose any effort to unfairly single out and delegitimize Israel, including at the United Nations or through the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement.”
The Trump campaign had earlier in the day tweeted video of Sarsour speaking (with the official DNC banner for the convention at the top of the screen), saying the Democrat Party “is absolutely our party.”
The campaign claimed in the tweet that Sarsour’s “extreme bigotry is welcomed by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
Biden may have condemned Sarsour, but she is still a major figure in the Democratic Party and stumped for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as he campaigned for the presidential nomination.
A top pro-Israel Organization called Zionist Organization of America slammed Sarsour in August 2019, providing <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/28/exclusive-linda-sarsour-zoa-anti-semitism/">an exclusive statement</a> to The Daily Caller.
“Sarsour is the one who stands with terrorists and bigots, including Louis Farrakhan. Sarsour shared a platform with and praised Rasmea Odeh – a Palestinian-Arab terrorist responsible for murdering Jewish students; praised an Arab kid holding rocks to throw at Israelis as ‘the definition of courage,’ and tweeted her support for the intifada – the knifing, bombing and shooting campaigns in which Palestinian-Arab terrorists murdered and maimed 12,000 Jews,” the statement said.
In 2018, Sarsour apologized for not condemning anti-Semitism among her fellow Women’s March organizers. Fellow co-chair Mallory attended a Nation of Islam event with Louis Farrakhan and later called him the greatest of all time. When she refused to condemn Farrakhan the next year, the DNC stopped sponsoring the Women’s March.

Joe Biden Condemns Linda Sarsour After She Speaks At DNC

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The Democratic National Convention featured Linda Sarsour, former leader of the Women’s March, as she hosted a caucus meeting for the Muslim Delegates and Allies Assembly.
The party’s apparent embrace of Sarsour is notable because of her history of anti-Semitic comments and support for the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement to isolate and cripple Israel. The <a href="https://dw-site-staging.dailywire.com/news/rashida-tlaib-defends-latest-womens-march-board-emily-zanotti">Women’s March</a>, of which Sarsour was a longtime member, cut ties with her and two other board members accused of making anti-Semitic comments last year.
“The Democratic Party is not perfect, but it is absolutely our party in this moment,” Sarsour said in part of her afternoon address on Tuesday.
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Sarsour has found allies in some of the more radical Democratic members of Congress, even <a href="https://dw-site-staging.dailywire.com/news/watch-linda-sarsour-stumps-bernie-sanders-elect-molly-prince">stumping for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders</a> during his campaign for the Democratic nomination for president.
“At a time of a startling rise in white nationalism and anti-Semitism, I would be so proud to win,” Sarsour said at a Sanders campaign rally last year. “But also to make history and elect the first Jewish American president that this country has ever seen and for his name to be Bernard Sanders.”
Sarsour has also come to the defense of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has her own history of making anti-Semitic comments and is a fellow supporter of the BDS movement.
“I am triggered by those who piled on Representative Ilhan Omar and incited a hate mob against her until she got assassination threats now giving condolences to our community. What we need you to do is reflect on how you contribute to islamophobia and stop doing that,” <a href="https://dw-site-staging.dailywire.com/news/womens-march-leader-linda-sarsour-says-shes-emily-zanotti">Sarsour tweeted</a> in March 2019.
Omar had been heavily criticized by both Republican and Democratic members of Congress, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, over comments Omar made widely seen as anti-Semitic. The backlash sparked a push in the House to pass a resolution condemning ant-Semitism, though the final copy of the resolution passed was expanded to condemn a wide range of hate.
Sarsour, then a leading representative of the Women’s March, <a href="https://dw-site-staging.dailywire.com/news/linda-sarsour-takes-credit-houses-weakened-anti-kassy-dillon">took partial credit</a> for the resolution that was eventually passed by Congress. She had characterized the initial draft of the resolution, which specifically targeted anti-Semitism, as “playing into the hands of the right” and “upholding the patriarchy.”
“So many of you know that our sister, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was under attack and being able to mobilize progressive leaders across the country to sign on to a letter to organize a press conference in support of Ilhan Omar, to call on the Democratic leadership to actually expand the language of the resolution to include condemning all forms of bigotry because that’s the kind of movement we are a part of,” Sarsour said in a video after making a fundraising pitch to supporters.
“The Women’s March is a movement that unequivocally rejects all forms of racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia,” Sarsour continued, “and that’s what we called on the Democratic leadership to do — that in our lifetime we made history with a resolution that is going to be in the public record for life.”

‘Absolutely Our Party’: Democrats Embrace Linda Sarsour At National Convention

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Last night, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, who frequently opines on issues pertaining to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44424/hammer-stark-choice-facing-jewish-democrats-josh-hammer">Jewish politics</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43388/hammer-anti-semites-ilhan-omar-and-rashida-tlaib-josh-hammer">anti-Semitism</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50850/hammer-yes-palestinian-state-far-more-dangerous-josh-hammer">Israel</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK4bc1c-UMI">joined</a> &#8220;Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler&#8221; on One America News Network to discuss the mainstream media&#8217;s overwhelming silence with respect to the fact that 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is Jewish by birth, has frequently associated himself with notorious anti-Semites and people embroiled in anti-Semitic controversies.
Sanders retains Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Linda Sarsour as leading presidential campaign surrogates, and recently reiterated his <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/02/i-dont-think-he-needs-my-advice-bernie-sanders-applauds-jeremy-corbyn">longtime support</a> for deeply anti-Semitic outgoing British Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sanders-appearing-with-omar-lauds-her-one-of-the-bravest-members-of-the-united-states-congress">reported</a> on Sunday, Sanders recently took the campaign stage with Omar — who has been consistently embroiled in anti-Semitic controversies ever since joining Congress in January — to effusively praise her as &#8220;a leader on so many important issues&#8221; and &#8220;one of the bravest members of the United States Congress.&#8221; And as Hammer discussed with Wheeler on a previous television segment from September, Sanders has long <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-hammer-tipping-point-liz-wheeler-bernie-daily-wire-2">already deployed</a> the anti-Semitic Sarsour as a prominent presidential campaign surrogate.
Wheeler began by lamenting the fact that the mainstream media are so silent about Sanders&#8217; numerous troubling affiliations and endorsements, including his recent endorsement and prompt subsequent un-endorsement of <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-endorses-candidate-ousted-from-far-left-pac-for-offensive-writings/">deeply troubled</a> California congressional candidate Cenk Uygur.
Wheeler decried the media for ignoring the &#8220;rabid anti-Semitism&#8221; of those with whom Sanders oftentimes &#8220;pals around.&#8221; Hammer tore into Sanders, as he has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-bernie-sanders-entire-worldview-grotesquely-josh-hammer">done</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1194316667880427522">before</a>:
<blockquote>It&#8217;s just so shameful. Bernie Sanders, obviously, is Jewish by birth; if I&#8217;m not mistaken, he had a large portion his family that was wiped out by the Nazis in the Holocaust. I mean, this is a man who truly, truly, truly, ought to know better.
But the reality is that the vast majority of American Jews in this country, as my boss Ben Shapiro has pointed out for years, simply don&#8217;t care a whole lot about Judaism. It&#8217;s very sad. Bernie Sanders fits very, very neatly into the Reform/Conservative, non-Orthodox Jewish consensus in America.
There was actually a poll I saw a few years ago that said that while 80% of evangelical Protestants believe that God promised the Land of Israel to the Jews, only 40% of American Jews believe that. And that is just one data point. American Jews, by and large, are secular. Their religion is progressive leftism. Bernie Sanders obviously takes it to the ultimate extreme: He is a USSR-honeymooning, hammer and sickle flag-waving, repulsive, Marxist communist. He and Jeremy Corbyn, despite the fact that they are [of] ostensibly different religions, actually have a lot more that they are similar on than they are different on.</blockquote>
Wheeler continued to expand upon the unique vileness of Corbyn, who has previously laid a wreath at a burial spot of Palestinian-Arabs who murdered Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and referred to jihadist groups Hezbollah and Hamas as his &#8220;friends.&#8221; And Uygur, who Sanders endorsed before promptly un-endorsing, has recently been in the news for an unearthed old statement wherein he expressed support for <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/cenk_uygur_antisemitism_bulldoze_jerusalem">&#8220;bulldoz[ing]&#8221; the holy city of Jerusalem</a>.
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WATCH: Hammer On ‘Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler’: The Media Hide Left-Wing Bigotry

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has been quiet lately, largely because the progressive &#8220;squad&#8221; is both fractured by the 2020 Democratic nomination process and sidelined during the impeachment inquiry, but she&#8217;s been busy promoting her causes out of the limelight &#8212; including at the American Muslims for Palestine conference, a pre-eminent gathering of some of the biggest anti-Semitic names in the business.
<a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/rashida-tlaib-headlined-anti-semitic-hate-fest/">The Washington Free Beacon reports</a> that Tlaib joined &#8221; who&#8217;s who of leading anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists, including Bernie Sanders surrogate Linda Sarsour,&#8221; at the weekend meeting, which took place in Chicago in November.
&#8220;AMP is at the forefront of the anti-Israel movement in the United States,&#8221; the WFB says. &#8220;A report from the Anti-Defamation League, a watchdog group that combats anti-Semitism, <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/profiles/american-muslims-for-palestine">said</a> the group promotes &#8216;extreme anti-Israel views&#8217; and provides &#8216;a platform for anti-Semitism.'&#8221;
Indeed, this year&#8217;s gathering was no exception. Sarsour, who was also a featured speaker at the event, used her platform to accuse Israel of &#8220;supremacy&#8221; and claim that the state of Israel was built on the idea that &#8220;Jews are supreme to everyone else.&#8221;
“Ask them this,&#8221; Sarsour said about &#8220;progressive Zionists, &#8220;how can you be against white supremacy in America and the idea of being in a state based on race and class, but then you support a state like Israel that is based on supremacy, that is built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everyone else.&#8221;
Sarsour later &#8220;clarified&#8221; her comments, claiming that her &#8220;Jewish supremacy&#8221; quip was in regards to a recent piece of legislation at issue in the Israeli government, but, in her extended &#8220;apology&#8221; on Twitter, she did little to dispell the notion that the original interpretation of her remarks was the correct one.
Tlaib, for her part, compared the Trump Administration&#8217;s efforts to curb illegal immigration to Israel&#8217;s &#8220;oppression&#8221; of Palestinians living in Gaza.
&#8220;In her keynote <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/12/03/anti-semitic-conspiracy-theories-reign-supreme-at-annual-pro-islamic-conference/">remarks</a>, Tlaib compared the U.S. border with Mexico to the Gaza Strip Palestinian territory that borders Israel and is controlled by the Hamas terror group,&#8221; the Washington Free Beacon reports. &#8220;The lawmaker also accused Israel of running an &#8216;occupation&#8217; of Palestinian lands, saying the movement to carve out key portions of Israel for a Palestinian state is akin to fighting racism in America.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you know what I saw at the [U.S.-Mexico] border? I saw Gaza,&#8221; Tlaib said in her speech to the gathered crowd. &#8220;When you think about the border, you have got to understand how interconnected the oppression in Palestine is with the oppression taking place at the border.&#8221;
&#8220;Every time I see the police going after, killing innocent people, innocent, treating African-American brothers and sisters like they&#8217;re disposable, I think of Palestine and what happens to our brothers and sisters in the occupation,&#8221; she continued, comparing the Black Lives Matter movement to the plight of Palestinians.
The Anti-Defamation League, which tracks anti-Semitism in the United States, has an extensive file on American Muslims for Palestine and considers it an openly anti-Semitic organization, connected directly to terrorist groups in the Middle East.
&#8220;AMP has its organizational roots in the <a href="http://archive.adl.org/israel/cair/links.html">Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP)</a>, an anti-Semitic group that served as the main propaganda arm for Hamas in the United States until it was dissolved in 2004,&#8221; the group notes. &#8220;Since its creation in 2005, AMP continues to work closely with some former IAP leaders who currently hold positions as AMP board members.&#8221;
Tlaib is, of course, no stranger to allegations of anti-Semitism. She has been rotinely criticized for her comments abot fellow legislators, and has even used the anti-Semitic dual loyalty smear against her own Democratic colleagues, accusing them of being in the pocket of Israel to the degree that they place Jewish interests above American ones.

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Report: Rep. Rashida Tlaib Headlined Anti-Semitic ‘American Muslims For Palestine’ Conference

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) rushed to the defense of a woman voted on to and then promptly voted off of the Women&#8217;s March board this week, calling the campaign to fire Zahra Billoo, who is accused of making anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements, a product of &#8220;Islamophobia.&#8221;
Last week, the Women&#8217;s March made headlines for cutting ties with three embattled founding members of its board — Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, and Bob Bland — all of whom were accused of making anti-Semitic remarks or supporting anti-Semitic statements within the March&#8217;s leadership, forging and maintaining ties between the Women&#8217;s March and the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam, and, as was revealed in a New York Times expose last year, making life uncomfortable for Jewish women in the March&#8217;s upper eschelons.
Bland was with the Women&#8217;s March from the beginning and is widely regarded as instrumental in the March&#8217;s initial success. Sarsour and Mallory joined the board after the March had been founded, but quickly took to defining the March&#8217;s public face. Sarsour is a longtime supporter of the anti-Semitic &#8220;boycott, divest, and sanction&#8221; movement and has made plenty of questionable public statements about Israel. Mallory is closely connected to the Nation of Islam and its virulently anti-Semitic preacher, Louis Farrakhan, and repeatedly refused to distance herself from his anti-Jewish statements and beliefs.
Last week, the March, facing declining membership and embarrasingly low turnout for its last several national events, cut ties with the three women, adding in a statement that the trio are moving on to other things.
&#8220;Bland and Mallory, who served as co-presidents of the organization, will be formally replaced when the new board convenes for its first meeting this month,&#8221; the organization said, adding that they plan to &#8220;transition &#8216;onto other projects focused on advocacy within their respective organizations.'&#8221;
Unfortunately, the move did little to cleanse the organization of anti-Semitism. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51848/womens-march-cuts-ties-old-anti-semites-brings-new-hank-berrien">They quickly picked up Zahra Billoo</a>, the leader of San Francisco&#8217;s chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and herself a noted anti-Israel activist and supporter of BDS.
After Billoo&#8217;s commentary came to light — commentary that included claims that Israel &#8220;commits war crimes as a hobby&#8221; and &#8220;kills children as a hobby&#8221; — she was also booted from the Women&#8217;s March board. She took to Twitter to denouce the move as driven by &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; in a 25-plus-tweet social media tantrum.
Her ouster, she claimed, was &#8220;driven by people who oppose me and my work challenging the occupation of Palestine, our country&#8217;s perpetuation of unjust and endless wars, and law enforcement operations targeting the American Muslim community.&#8221;
Always one to rush to the defense of a fellow anti-Israel activist, Tlaib voiced her own concerns about the Women&#8217;s March&#8217;s Islamophobia on Saturday. Quote-tweeting Billoo, Tlaib claimed, &#8220;we have the truth on our side.&#8221;
&#8220;#FreePalestine always sis! They won&#8217;t silence us for speaking out against human rights violations. They will lie, smear our names and call us anti this and that, but we always be pro- humanity &amp; we have the truth on our side. Stay strong @ZahraBilloo,&#8221; Tlaib tweeted.
Rashida Tlaib is, of course, no stranger to anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiments. She&#8217;s been repeatedly accused of espousing anti-Semitic sentiments and openly supports the BDS movement. She&#8217;s also rushed to the defense of others who share her beliefs, including notorious Palestinian activist Abbas Hamideh, who worked on Tlaib&#8217;s campaign and attended exclusive events to mark her inauguration.

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Rashida Tlaib DEFENDS Latest Women’s March Board Member Voted Out Over Anti-Semitic Comments

Last week, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, who frequently opines on issues pertaining to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44424/hammer-stark-choice-facing-jewish-democrats-josh-hammer">Jewish politics</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43388/hammer-anti-semites-ilhan-omar-and-rashida-tlaib-josh-hammer">anti-Semitism</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50850/hammer-yes-palestinian-state-far-more-dangerous-josh-hammer">Israel</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ9FqCFk1pY">joined</a> &#8220;Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler&#8221; on One America News Network to discuss the news that socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) plans to deploy infamous anti-Semite and &#8220;Women&#8217;s March&#8221; co-founder Linda Sarsour as a campaign surrogate for his 2020 presidential bid.
Wheeler began by pointing out that the goal of a campaign surrogate is to articulate the goals, ideology, and policy initiatives of the political candidate. Wheeler opined that it is &#8220;pretty terrifying&#8221; for America that a 2020 presidential candidate has employed such an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38460/linda-sarsour-accuses-jews-who-oppose-anti-semitic-hank-berrien">overt</a> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/columnist/301325/omg-just-shut-up-an-open-letter-to-linda-sarsour/">anti-Semite</a>, and that it makes no difference that Sanders himself is ethnically Jewish. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter that he himself is of Jewish heritage,&#8221; Wheeler said of Sanders. &#8220;The policies that he&#8217;s going to be imposing on our nation &#8230; if they&#8217;re anything like Linda Sarsour&#8217;s, then they&#8217;re anti-Semitic.&#8221;
Hammer responded by excoriating Sanders, as he done in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43796/hammer-bernie-sanders-entire-worldview-grotesquely-josh-hammer">numerous</a> Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51556/hammer-bernies-pagan-support-child-sacrifice-josh-hammer">op-eds</a>. Hammer also claimed that Sanders is, as Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro might <a href="https://twitter.com/search?lang=en&amp;q=jino%20(from%3Abenshapiro)&amp;src=typed_query">phrase</a> it, a &#8220;JINO&#8221;:
<blockquote>You know, in 2016, when Bernie Sanders was challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, back then he actually got in hot water with even some Jewish Democratic voters for falsifying statistics about the 2014 Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. He <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-accused-blood-libel-over-wrong-gaza-casualty-figures-444968">totally fabricated numbers</a> &#8230; he said that 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza died as a result of the IDF&#8217;s military campaign there [and] that number is off by orders of magnitude. So he has gotten in hot water in the past with Jewish Democratic voters, but this really ought to be a step too far.
He is bringing on someone who is the face of the BDS campaign — that is the same BDS campaign that is the number one leading anti-Semitic movement all across the world. [BDS is] on college campuses, across the U.N., and across the European left — Linda Sarsour is the face of that. And as you say, Liz, it makes no difference that Bernie Sanders is Jewish. Bernie Sanders may be ethnically Jewish, but he is, as my boss Ben Shapiro of The Daily Wire might say: He really is a &#8220;<a href="http://twitter.com/search?lang=en&amp;q=jino%20(from%3Abenshapiro)&amp;src=typed_query">JINO</a>,&#8221; a Jew-in-name-only.
He doesn&#8217;t care about Judaism. He cares about leftism and, like so many secularists no matter what [their] purported religion is, Bernie Sanders <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51556/hammer-bernies-pagan-support-child-sacrifice-josh-hammer">worships at the altar of the secular state</a>. He&#8217;s a leftist, a socialist to his core. That is his religion — his religion is not Judaism.</blockquote>
Wheeler responded by emphasizing the horrific litany of anti-Semitic things Linda Sarsour has said and the anti-Semitic actions she has taken:
<blockquote>Linda Sarsour supports the BDS movement. You talk[ed] about how she pals around with Rasmea Odeh, a convicted murderer in Israel who bombed students — killed students because they were in Israel. This is a friend of Linda Sarsour. So those are two things. Here are some other things.
Linda Sarsour has palled around with Louis Farrakhan. Louis Farrakhan is one of the most notorious anti-Semites who exists in our country today — who calls Jews &#8220;evil,&#8221; who wants to &#8220;take white men down.&#8221; Louis Farrakhan is a friend of Linda Sarsour whom she has not disavowed. Bernie Sanders himself, by the way, when we&#8217;re talking about views on Jews and anti-Semitism, Bernie Sanders called congresswoman Ilhan Omar and defended her [and] said that he didn&#8217;t think that she was an anti-Semite.</blockquote>
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WATCH: Hammer On ‘Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler’: Bernie Sanders Wants A Jew-Hater To Be His Campaign Surrogate

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Controversial left-wing activist Linda Sarsour joined Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on the campaign trail last week to promote the Democratic Socialist&#8217;s stalling bid for the presidency.
&#8220;At a time of a startling rise in white nationalism and anti-Semitism, I would be so proud to win,&#8221; Sarsour told a crowd in Brooklyn, New York at a Sanders campaign rally. &#8220;But also to make history and elect the first Jewish American president that this country has ever seen and for his name to be Bernard Sanders.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">&#8220;I would be so proud to win, but also to make history and elect the first Jewish American president this country has ever seen and for his name to be Bernard Sanders.&#8221; –<a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@lsarsour</a> <a href="https://t.co/INPRlvmMur">pic.twitter.com/INPRlvmMur</a>
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While Sanders has recently referred to himself as a &#8220;proud Jewish person,&#8221; the Vermont senator has largely distanced himself from Judaism. Not only does he refrain from observing Jewish customs, he is also not a member of any congregation and doesn&#8217;t attend a synagogue.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not actively involved with organized religion,&#8221; Sanders <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bernie-sanders-finally-answers-the-god-question/2016/01/26/83429390-bfb0-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html?postshare=9611453895803704">revealed to reporters</a> in 2016.
Sanders, however, has used his status as an ethnic Jew during his second bid for the presidency, especially when discussing his stance on the U.S.-Israeli alliance and Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has been especially critical of Israel and its treatment of Palestinians, even threatening to withhold billions of dollars in aid to Israel to combat what he calls &#8220;racism&#8221; on behalf of the Jewish state.
The Sanders campaign shared a clip of Sarsour&#8217;s speech on his official social media account, identifying Sarsour as a &#8220;Civil Rights Activist, 2020 Bernie Surrogate.&#8221;
&#8220;Bernie Sanders believes in us and he believes in our worth as a people,&#8221; Sarsour said. &#8220;We all deserve health care and access to higher education, an economy where we can all thrive and not just the top one percent, and a transformative foreign policy.&#8221;
&#8220;One that is centered on peace and diplomacy, a foreign policy that sees Palestinians as human beings deserving of human rights and self-determination,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Bernie doesn&#8217;t ask us how much these things will cost because only people who don&#8217;t believe we deserve these things will ask us to pay for things like health care but never ask us how to pay for endless and unjust wars.&#8221;
Sarsour, a Palestinian-American activist, has been dogged by allegations of anti-Semitism since she rose to prominence as a co-founder of the Women&#8217;s March. She is a vehement supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which seeks to punish Israel by economically and politically starving the Jewish state.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has referred to BDS as &#8220;the most prominent effort to undermine Israel’s existence.&#8221; Accordingly, the Israel Knesset passed legislation in 2017 that bars foreign BDS activists from entering the country.
The Israeli government cited the aforementioned legislation in August <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50657/israel-blocks-tlaib-and-omar-visiting-trump-agrees-molly-prince">when it blocked</a> noted anti-Semitic U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) from traveling to the Jewish state. Sarsour has been a vocal supporter of the two freshman congresswomen, routinely defending the duo against frequent allegations of anti-Semitism.
The Women&#8217;s March faced widespread backlash after its co-founders, including Sarsour, refused to denounce the Nation of Islam&#8217;s anti-Semitic leader Louis Farrakhan and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42410/watch-womens-march-leaders-promote-anti-semitism-ryan-saavedra">promoted the BDS movement</a> during the march. Consequently, more than half of the event&#8217;s sponsors pulled out of the 2019 event and attendance dropped significantly from the previous year.

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