Linda Sarsour is working assiduously to exclude supporters of Israel from all of the Left’s pet causes. The far-Left Muslims For Abolition, which wants to “abolish bail, abolish jails, abolish the police, abolish prisons,” i.e., destroy the United States, is just the latest group to take this course; Sarsour previously compelled the Women’s March to accept her Jew-hatred. If the group wanted to exclude any other group, there would be protests, but no one seems to mind this.
“Sarsour Group Backs ‘No Zionists’ Juneteenth Rally,” by Ariel Behar, IPT News, June 23, 2020:
It was an event to celebrate freedom and protest ongoing bigotry and discrimination.
But the group Muslims4Abolition, which wants “… to be part of the movement to abolish bail, abolish jails, abolish the police, abolish prisons,” openly engaged in bigotry and discrimination in promoting its Juneteenth rally last Friday in New York. The event, an advertisement made clear, was “open to all, minus cops & Zionists.”
Juneteenth marks a day in American history that celebrates the freedom of the last slaves, more than two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
It should surprise no one that an event which specifically excludes Zionists – those who believe in a homeland for the Jewish people – would draw support from Linda Sarsour and her organization MPower Change.
Sarsour has a history of espousing her own bigotry and excluding Zionists from progressive platforms. In a 2017 interview with The Nation, she claimed people could not be both feminist and Zionist.
“It just doesn’t make any sense for someone to say, ‘Is there room for people who support the state of Israel and do not criticize it in the movement?’ Sarsour asked. “There can’t be in feminism. You either stand up for the rights of all women, including Palestinians, or none. There’s just no way around it.”
She has repeatedly spread a blood libel linking U.S. law enforcement personnel training in Israel to the shooting of unarmed black people in America.
“If you believe in the idea of ending police brutality and the misconduct of law enforcement officers across the country,” she told the Islamic Society of North America’s 2018 convention, “then you do not support an organization that takes police officers from America, funds their trips, takes them to Israel so they can be trained by the Israeli police and military, and then they come back here and do what? Stop and frisk, killing unarmed black people across the country.”
Sarsour offered a similar line two years earlier, during a speech at the 20th anniversary “Million Man March” organized by the Nation of Islam’s anti-Semitic leader Louis Farrakhan. “The same people who justify the massacres of Palestinian people and call it collateral damage are the same people who justify the murder of black young men and women,” she said.
Sarsour has questioned Zionists who stand against white supremacy because Sarsour believes that Israel was also built on supremacy—Jewish supremacy.
In 2016, she told an American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) event that she only wants friendships and camaraderie with those who unequivocally support the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement. The BDS movement singles out Israel for political and economic isolation while ignoring other countries with far worse human rights records. The founder of the BDS movement has said no Palestinian would ever accept Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.
Many have taken to social media to condemn Sarsour for promoting an event that, polls show, excludes nearly all Jews. More than 90 percent of the world’s Jews consider themselves Zionists to varying degrees in that they believe Israel has a right to and should exist as a Jewish state.
“*Open to all* (minus ~90% of Jewish people who are Zionists),” tweeted Israeli activist Hen Mazzig. “We won’t make this about us if you won’t. Stop it. This fight is too important for antisemites to abuse this way.”
“@lsarsour can’t even hold a rally against racism without expressing her own bigotry,” the group Democratic Majority for Israel wrote. “Her organization banned 95% of American Jews from an event they hosted.”
It is historically tone deaf and somewhat ironic to mark an event celebrating emancipation and protesting discrimination by engaging in it. But that’s what the group Muslims4Abolition did by excluding Jews who support Israel and cops….
Rarely says
A very evil person.
RichardL says
as evil as she is ugly
curious george says
The Four Horsemen of America’s Apocalypse
https://www.dennisprager.com/column/the-four-horsemen-of-americas-apocalypse/
Merri-joy says
Thank you for the link!
b.a. freeman says
i’m getting the DVD. that may be old-school, but if i have a battery, a player, and the DVD, i don’t need connection to the power grid, nor do i need an UNCENSORED internet connection (thank God for TOR … but have U set up *your* computer as a Tor exit node? the CIA won’t wait forever before it starts trying to crack TOR nodes). and once quantum computing is a reality (it may already be … why would the State let U know that it has a tool IN HAND to read your encrypted communications?), not even TOR will help.
thank U for the link.
+1
Ray Jarman says
So-sour as she should be named has obviously never read any of the reams of paper on which has been written the accounts of the Civil War in which is still the costliest loss of life in an effort to abolish slavery. If one looks at the population and number of dead in comparison to WWII or any war since, more Americans lost their lives and this woman and the left rail against the majority in this nation? It is outrageous and disgraceful for those who died to end the evil practice. While performing genealogical work, I discovered I had an uncle who was hung for treason by the state of North Carolina because he fought with the North and was captured. Each day this crap goes on, I become angrier.
Also the left has forgotten that many of Martin Luther King’s followers who went to jails in the South were New England Jews and men like Jacob Javits led the efforts in Congress to end segregation while the Democrats (including Byrd and Biden) fought to retain segregated schools and lunch counters.
aghaaliarkhan says
The U.S. north sought to impose tariffs on the U.S. south’s cotton which the south was selling to Britain in exchange for British manufactured goods. The north wanted to sell the north’s manufactured goods to the south.
The south didn’t like that and war happened.
Later on Abe freed the slaves.
That’s kind of simplistic but I wasn’t there at the time. If I had been that would have been my take – probably.
gravenimage says
Actually, slavery had been a wrenching moral issue since before the creation of the United States. The idea that the Civil War was an issue about desired trade monopolies and that abolishing slavery was an afterthought is ludicrous.
Does Agha ali Arkhan himself have a problem with the horrors of slavery? Not so he says.
Ray Jarman says
GI,
Thank you for my point was simply that thousands of Americans died to free the slaves in America and it seems that these clowns rioting in the streets of our cities have no idea of what they are talking about. To further your point, the Constitution originally considered a black person 3/5th of a person for representation purposes. We have certainly come a long ways since then and a lot of white and black lives have been lost fighting for equal rights since the founding of this great nation.
gravenimage says
Exactly, Ray.
curious george says
It seems that the left, regardless of the personality, is doing something that the “silent majority” isn’t.
They are getting involved, they are in the public square and they “are” making their voices heard.
They are actively engaging the culture, instead of participating passively on sites like this one, where it’s preaching to the choir.
I’m not, in any way, shape or form, condoning their destructive behavior, only pointing out an undeniable fact, they are relentless, organized and very determined.
Maybe the “silent majority” should start to be “not so silent.”
James Lincoln says
+1
b.a. freeman says
excellent point, curious; others are saying the same thing:
https://rairfoundation.com/rair-foundation-usa-op-ed-its-time-to-be-loud/?unapproved=2194&moderation-hash=6cb2bf2155c12fefad6915e70a555863#comment-2194
+1
curious george says
j.b. freeman,
Thank you for the link and the introduction to the RAIR site. I have bookmarked it for future use.
An excellent and timely article, it precisely expresses my thoughts.
Michael Copeland says
Memo to Linda Sarsour:
“Slavery is a part of Islam” – Saleh Al-Fawzan, Saudi Scholar
“Slavery is one of the virtues of Islam” – Kuwaiti cleric
These would make good placards.
b.a. freeman says
😀
thanks for the belly laugh, Michael!
+1
Merri-joy says
Linda Sarsour has shown herself to be a huge liar – she does not defend the RIGHTS of all women by exclusion of Jewish women there’s a gaping hole in her argument!
Also Israeli-Supremacy, what about Islamic Supremacy????
gravenimage says
Muslims For Abolition holds Juneteenth rally “open to all, minus cops & Zionists”
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Thugs.
And notice what they *don’t* want to abolish–*slavery*, despite this being what Juneteenth is all about. Slavery still continues under Islam, especially in Africa. Linda Sarsour hopes that Americans–especially African Americans–do not know this.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
What happens when leftists/antifa/BLM,etc., finally get the memo that slavery has, and still exists, under islam.
Cognitive dissonance?
Tear down mosques along with Confederate statues?
Or is that the “third rail”…
gravenimage says
So true–so much easier for these idiots to vent their rage on people who died in many cases over 150 years ago than to care about victims of slavery *today*.
Jayell says
‘Muslims for Abolition’. ‘Abolition of WHAT exactly, for God’s sake? You’ve got to ‘abolish’ something! Abolition of slavery (that seems to be one of the ‘in-things’ at the moment)? But muslims have been in it up to their necks ever since their ‘Prophet’ started up his business. Abolition of Law and order? We know all about that because.the only ‘Law and Order’ muslims recognise is the sort of thing they project from their own nasty little prehistoric egos onto their Alter-Ego-in- the-Sky (aka ‘Allah’), and to hell with everyone else. Abolition of free speech? We all know about that as well as they claim special protection for themselves and their delicate sensibilities just in case anyone has the temerity to state the bl**ding obvious (apologies to John Cleese) about their alleged ‘Religion of Peace’. Abolition of democracy? How dare people presume to govern themselves when they should be submitting themselves to the will of ‘Allah’ (aka Mohammed’s Invisible Ventriloquist Dummy In The Sky – apologies to Wellington for that one) just like continental Europe was supposed to submit to the Third Reich in the 1930’s and 1940’s – and now seem to be doing it for Allah?
Or is this yet another example of muslims hijacking a fashionable buzzword (like ‘;phobia’) for a bit of cheap self-publicity in order to con a bit of support from anyone stupid enough not to realise that ‘Muslims for Abolition’ doesn’t even make any grammatical sense at all? Well, they plagiarised a whole ‘religion’ that way, so, like every dodgy door-to-door salesman or internet pirate, they must be on to something.
gravenimage says
Jayell wrote:
‘Muslims for Abolition’. ‘Abolition of WHAT exactly, for God’s sake?
…………..
Spot on question, Jayell.
Notice their website says *nothing* about what they want to abolish.
Funny that the Abolitionists didn’t have a problem saying that they wanted to abolish slavery.
Tony Naim says
Count one more: Abolish DHIMMITUDE !
gravenimage says
+1