Linda Sarsour: the oxymoron of anti Semitism

Linda Sarsour speaking at an anti-Semitism panel is like Adolf Hitler speaking at a Bar Mitzvah--nobody with a functioning brain is going to take her seriously.

A scheduled talk on anti-Semitism featuring the "Queen of Jihad in America" Linda Sarsour, has angered Jewish students and professors at the New School, a leftist university in New York City that boasts a "student-directed curriculum."

Students (aka "New Schoolers") are required to complete core training, usually of a literary, conservatory, or artistic nature. 

The highly experimental curriculum that has grown from this philosophy includes such nonsense as "Heterodox Identities," "Games 101," "Punk and Noise," "Queer Culture," "Play and Toil in the Digital Sweatshop," and "Masculinity in Asia." All designed to make interesting conversation in their parents' basement.

The panel is scheduled to include Jewish Voice for Peace director Rebecca Vilkomerson and members of two other groups, Jews of Color and Jews for Racial & Economic Justice. The title of the discussion, "Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice" is reportedly designed to explore the phenomenon of critics of Israel being labeled anti-Semites to silence their concerns.

Sponsors of the event are the university, JVP and Jacobin Magazine.

"Antisemitism is harmful and real," the event description states. "But when antisemitism is redefined as criticism of Israel, critics of Israeli policy become accused and targeted more than the growing far-right."

Of course, this is nonsense. Israel, aka 'The Jewish State," is the identity of Jews everywhere and anti-Semites know this.

Sarsour knows this too. As an organizer of the Women's March, she has been criticized for saying such things as "nothing is creepier than Zionism" and that Zionists couldn't be true feminists. She also tweeted, in 2011, about activists Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Brigitte Gabriel:

"Brigitte Gabriel = Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She's asking 4 an a$$ whippin'. I wish I could take their vaginas away-they don't deserve to be women."

For more on that click here.

She has also praised convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmeah Odeh. There is no doubt, none, that Linda Sarsour is an anti-Semite.

"Having an anti-Semite on a panel to discuss anti-Semitism is ridiculous," Susan Shapiro, a professor at New School since 1993, told the Forward, a Jewish daily newspaper.

Sarsour, who called for jihad against President Trump, supports the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, but continues to use Israeli-invented devices and technology in spite of her claims. 

Clearly, the BDS movement is anti-Semitic, just as Islam is anti-Christian and anti-Semitic.

Shapiro said that if Sarsour was asked to speak on any other topic, it would have been no big deal, but for her to opine on anti-Semitism was a step too far.

History professor Natalia Helman Petrzela believes that discussing the exploitation of anti-Semitism as a way to suppress legitimate criticism of Israel is fair, but said the panel didn't offer the right people to address it.

"When I found out . . . that it was composed without scholars of anti-Semitism, that to me was outrageous," she told the Forward. "You need to have a panel with a different composition to have that conversation in a nuanced way."

Linda Sarsour preaches hate and lies. She is wrong for any discussion on anti-Semitism, Israel and peace.

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