Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour is an anti-Semite, according to Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour.
On Sunday, Sarsour published a statement in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day. It omitted all mentions of the Jews.
“May the memories of those who perished inspire us to love and protect one another. May we never forget history so that we may never repeat it,” she said in a note posted to Facebook. “May their stories instill a sense of commitment and determination in our movements and communities to never leave anyone behind. May they rest in an eternal peace knowing that we will fight for each other no matter the consequences. #HolocaustRemembranceDay”
I’m sure her fans in the news media were thrilled to read this curiously worded statement, especially considering the Women’s March, which newsrooms generally support, continues to hemorrhage followers over allegations that its leaders have a serious anti-Semitism problem.
Left-wing groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, EMILY’s List, and the Democratic National Committee, have already put space between themselves and the march. The Washington State Women’s March also publicly criticized the march’s leadership, stressing its failure to “apologize for their anti-Semitic stance.” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., who strongly supported the movement when it first arrived, announced in a USA Today op-ed this month she would no longer be associated with the group.
Even the woman who got the march going in the first place with a Facebook post has called on the movement’s leaders — Bob Bland, Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez, and Tamika Mallory — to resign, writing that they’ve allowed “anti-Semitism, anti-LBGTQIA sentiment and hateful, racist rhetoric to become a part of the [march’s] platform.”
Sarsour’s Sunday statement might not have been that bad. But it is almost identical to the one the White House released in 2017 that she claimed was anti-Semitic.
The Women’s March leader, who readily accuses Jews of dual loyalties, as “folks who masquerade as progressives but always choose their allegiance to Israel over their commitment to democracy and free speech,” was beside herself with #Resistance rage two years ago today. That was when the White House released a bland Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that omitted any mention of Jews. In Sarsour’s own words, the omission was incontrovertible evidence that President Trump (or at least those in his administration) are anti-Semites.
“How do you have a Remembrance Day for the holocaust and not mention Jews?! Absolutely outrageous. Definition of anti-semitism,” she tweeted.
How do you have a Remembrance Day for the holocaust and not mention Jews?! Absolutely outrageous. Definition of anti-semitism. https://t.co/onurkajVwk
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) January 29, 2017
So, there you have it. Sarsour identified this weekend as an anti-Semite.
Hey, don’t get angry at me. I don’t write the rules.
More seriously, though, she is quite possibly the worst figurehead imaginable for a nationwide political movement with a stated goal to fight bigotry and hatred by “building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.” At a time when the group is struggling to get away from allegations that it has a serious Jew-hating problem, she goes ahead and releases a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that does exactly what she condemned as anti-Semitic in 2017.
For a group whose sole purpose is to resist Trump, you’d think they could have at least picked a leader capable of keeping track of what to resist.
