My latest at PJ Media:
It seemed like a positive development, which is rare enough coming from the Left. As Rick Moran noted at PJ Media Tuesday, “the Women’s March has forced the resignations of three founding board members who found themselves in trouble for explicit anti-Semitic statements. National co-chairs Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory, and Linda Sarsour stepped down, making room for 16 new board members, including three Jewish women, in order to repair relations with activists groups that couldn’t stomach the virulent anti-Semitism of Sarsour and the others.” But don’t break out the hats and hooters just yet: one of the new board members is another venomous anti-Semite, Zahra Billoo of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
According to IPT News, Billoo “matches – perhaps even surpasses – outgoing board member Linda Sarsour’s hatred for Israel and those who support it. Billoo at least is candid enough to admit she doesn’t think the Jewish state should exist (she has not mentioned other countries she wishes would disappear).” Nor has she mentioned the new genocide of the Jews that would inevitably accompany the destruction of the State of Israel. And there’s more: “She repeatedly has compared Israeli soldiers to ISIS terrorists. Being pro-Israel, she has written, is tantamount to being ‘pro-terror, pro-violence, pro-land theft, and pro-apartheid.’”
The IPT correctly notes that “criticizing Israeli leaders, or government policies, is not anti-Semitic. But rejecting even the idea of the state’s existence, is. It’s a view shared by the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and at least 25 other nations.”
Amid numerous appalling statements Billoo has made is one in which she said: “I don’t think we can work on civil rights together in the US” if someone supports Israel, because the Israelis, she said, are “baby killers.” Nor has Billoo restricted her victimhood posturing and hatred to Israel; the Jewish state’s chief ally, the United States, has been her target as well. She has accused the FBI of recruiting for the jihad terror group the Islamic State (ISIS): “I’m more afraid of racist Zionists who support Apartheid Israel than of the mentally ill young people the FBI recruits to join ISIS.”
What’s more, despite the fact that the board members that the Women’s March dismissed came under fire for refusing to condemn the racist anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, Billoo also holds the Nation of Islam leader in high esteem. IPT News reports that “she featured a Nation of Islam video on her blog in 2010. Seven months earlier, she felt compelled to share with her Twitter followers that she was “watching Farrakhan church speech, while at the gym.’”
There is much more. Read the rest here.
RDK3 says
She was dropped from the bord Wednesday night.
Mario Alexis Portella says
While not much changes, at least Linda Sarsour is not going to be a part of it. I concur that nothing really changes: one anti-Semite replacing another. But at least a big name is gone, meaning that one way or the other our voices are having some effect, minimal as it may be for now. Let’s not give up the fight!!!
Me says
Like TERMITES eating away at the High Morality of a Nation…
Mr. Cohen says
Matti Friedman
[former Associated Press reporter] wrote:
“Hamas’s strategy is to provoke a response from Israel
by attacking from behind the cover of Palestinian civilians,
thus drawing Israeli strikes that kill those civilians,
and then to have the casualties filmed by one of
the world’s largest press contingents,
with the understanding that the resulting outrage
abroad will blunt Israel’s response.
This is a ruthless strategy, and an effective one.
It is predicated on the cooperation of journalists.
One of the reasons it works is because of the reflex I mentioned.
If you report that Hamas has a strategy based on co-opting
the media, this raises several difficult questions, like:
What exactly is the relationship between the media and Hamas?
And has this relationship corrupted the media?”
SOURCE 1:
What the Media Gets Wrong about Israel
by Matti Friedman, 2014/11/30
http://www.TheAtlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262
SOURCE 2: Unfreedom of the Press
(chapter 6, pages 159-160) by Mark R. Levin,
published by Threshold Editions, year 2019, NYC,
ISBN 9781476773094 * ISBN 1476773092
Mr. Cohen says
On June 1, 2006, former New York City mayor Ed Koch
wrote an opinion piece in the [New York] Times
titled “The New York Times’ Anti-Israel Bias,”
asserting that “the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC]
and the New York Times consistently carry news
stories and editorials that are slanted against Israel
and sympathetic to the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.”
SOURCE: Unfreedom of the Press
(chapter 6, page 157) by Mark R. Levin,
published by Threshold Editions, year 2019, NYC,
ISBN 9781476773094 * ISBN 1476773092
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Caroline Glick said:
Given the progressive, activist media’s effective control
over the public discourse in the U.S., today it acts not
as the guarantor of freedom of expression, but as the
most powerful bar to freedom of expression in America.
By determining what is “racist” and what is not racist,
what is “politically correct” and what is unacceptable
politically and culturally, the media do not serve as
a vehicle for informing the public about the issues of
the day and the state of the country and the world.
Rather, they serve as indoctrination nodes,
instructing the public what they can say and what
they cannot say; what they can think, and what
they cannot think; who can be accepted as legitimate
and who must be ostracized and shamed as illegitimate.
SOURCE: The New York Times’ 120 year war
against the Jews by Caroline Glick, 06/05/2019
http://carolineglick.com/the-new-york-times-120-year-war-against-the-jews/
Mary says
THESE PEOPLE DON’T SPEAK FOR ME, a woman!!
gravenimage says
Same with me.
Angemon says
Imagine my surprise…
Westman says
I doubt Billoo can match Sarsour’s organizing ability. We haven’t heard much from the March Movement recently, except for, “Under New Management”, and we know what that means for a business.
gravenimage says
Women’s March Replaces Anti-Semites with Another Anti-Semite
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Good news–Billoo is out as well. But if the Women’s March keeps trying to find Muslims who don’t hate Jews, they will likely have no more luck.