Nonprofit Linked to Sarsour's Anti-Semitic Circus Rakes in Millions from NYC and Albany Taxpayers

Well, here's a plot twist that shouldn't surprise anyone who's been paying attention to the progressive fever swamp: a nonprofit cozying up to anti-Semitic Muslima Linda Sarsour, longtime cheerleader for New York City mayor-elect, Democrat Socialist Zohran Mamdani, has been swimming in public cash like it's an open bar at a DSA happy hour. Public records lay it out plain as day: $4.1 million over seven years, courtesy of the good folks in City Hall and Albany who apparently think funding radical activism is just another line item in the budget.

The Arab American Association of New York (AAANY), where Sarsour reigned supreme from 2005 to 2017, pocketed over $3.3 million from the city and $854,000 from the state between her exit and 2024. The state cash mostly flowed from the New York State Department of State, with a cheeky $20,000 sprinkle from the Office of Children and Family Services, because nothing says "family values" like bankrolling allies of Hamas fanboys. 

On the city side, it's a black box of bureaucratic bliss: one $60,000 check from the Department of Small Business Services, and the rest shows no agency named, no questions asked. Watchdog OpenTheBooks had to dig through the muck to expose it, because transparency is so last century in Bill de Blasio's dystopia.

This bombshell drops right after Sarsour's latest victory lap, where she gloated about Mamdani's win and dangled threats over any Democrat who dares to love the Jewish state of Israel. 

Mamdani, predictably radio silent on whether he'll keep the gravy train chugging for his pal's old outfit once he parks his keffiyeh in Gracie Mansion. 

Democratic NY Gov. Kathy Hochul was mum on whether Albany's checkbook stays open for AAANY's agitprop. One can only imagine the internal memo: "Priorities: not affordable housing; but increased Sarsour slush funds, definitely.

It all bubbled up from a Canary Mission video of Sarsour preening at a September Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) confab, boasting that a CAIR-backed PAC was Mamdani's top sugar daddy, a nugget the Free Beacon flagged back in June. Remember, CAIR's boss Nihad Awad lit up the interwebs in late 2023 by admitting he was "happy to see" Hamas's Oct. 7 bloodbath against Israel. Classy crowd of racist pukes.

Fresh off Mamdani's triumph, Sarsour wasted no time Thursday at a Puerto Rico shindig, vowing to purge pro-Israel Democrats from the party like they're haram. "You do the right thing, you keep your job," she crowed. "You don't do the right thing, you don't keep your job. There are some people that will do the right thing for the wrong reasons, but we don't care why you do the right thing as long as you do the right thing. If you do it because you think you're getting primaried, that's okay with us. People are saying 'free Palestine' because now they're getting primaried. Free Palestine." Ah, yes, the timeless leftist logic: Motives don't matter if the outcome feeds the narrative. Primaries as protection racket, 2025 edition.

Sarsour's out of the AAANY driver's seat these days, but don't worry, the radical bus hasn't slowed down. Current honcho Marwa Janini, a vet of Students for Justice in Palestine, threw her weight behind a 2021 petition pushing global boycotts of the Jewish state. The group's official line? All sunshine: "to support and empower the Arab Immigrant and Arab American community by helping them adjust to their new home and become active members of society." But under Janini, it's been pedal-to-the-metal on Mamdani's "Not on Our Dime" bill, which would've kneecapped New York nonprofits for any whiff of "unauthorized support for Israeli settlement activity." Mamdani's still playing coy on whether that covers, say, Band-Aids for West Bank civilians, humanitarian aid being such a slippery slope when you're auditioning for the anti-Zionist league.

And let's not forget AAANY's star turn backing the "Flood Brooklyn for Palestine" blowout just days after Oct. 7. What started as a "protest" turned into a full-on tantrum: roads gridlocked, street fires lit, eggs hurled at cops, and chants that made the Weather Underground look like a book club. NYPD scooped up about two dozen of the 5,000-strong mob. As one ringleader bellowed, as per the New York Post, this wasn't some milquetoast ceasefire plea, they were gunning for "an end to the occupation." 

Sarsour and Mamdani go way back, bonding over Khader El-Yateem's flop of a 2017 city council run. She's maxed out donations to his mayoral bid and dubbed him her "favorite guy," but don't get it twisted, she's got the accountability whip ready. "I won't let him do whatever the hell he wants when he gets to City Hall," she promises. 

Speaking of which, Sarsour's resume reads like a greatest-hits album of Jew-hating tropes: Zionism as "white supremacy in America," endless sniping at Israel's, and thereby the Jews' very existence. In 2017, Sarsour was the Women's co-chair where she platformed Louis Farrakhan's bile and Rasmea Odeh, the convicted terrorist. 

She is also the BDS queen snake [no bees here], insisting "One cannot be a feminist and a Zionist at the same time." Small wonder the March's founder booted her for good, blasting the "anti-Semitism, anti-LBGTQIA sentiment and hateful, racist rhetoric" she'd normalized.

In a sane world, taxpayers wouldn't subsidize this circus of a clusterfrack. But in Hochul's New York, where Mamdani's squad treats public funds like venture capital for revolution, it's just another day ending in 'y'. 

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California College sued for anti-Semitic behavior re: Jewish prof's conversation on Israel-Hamas war

A Jewish professor, Karen Fiss, is suing the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, alleging that her rights were violated when she was punished for disagreeing with students about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

According to court documents shared with The Algemeiner by the Deborah Project, a legal nonprofit that defends the civil rights of Jewish educators, Fiss's troubles started on October 23, 2023. She engaged in a discussion with members of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group who had set up an anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic display. They asked for her support in campaigning for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Fiss looked over their materials, which included a sign with the slogan "From the river to the sea," and asked questions about what it meant and what news sources they were using. This led to a student, offended and 'unsafe,' by Fiss's questioning, removing the sign suggesting the genocide of Israeli Jews, and arguing that reports of Hamas's actions on October 7, 2023, were false.

The situation escalated when one student, Maryiam Alwael, claimed that her understanding of the conflict was superior due to her Kuwaiti background. Fiss responded by asking if Alwael knew about Kuwait's expulsion of Palestinians in 1991. Fiss advocated for a more nuanced view of the conflict, suggesting not all Middle Easterners oppose Israel and many are against Hamas and its supporters like Iran.

Fiss advised the students to avoid echo chambers, but Alwael preferred her own low information views. Although the conversation was civil, the students claimed that she felt attacked and filed a complaint against Fiss, accusing her of harassment and discrimination, because when they jihadis aren't killing you, they are claiming victimhood.

With minimal due process, Fiss was deemed guilty and required to undergo "diversity, equity, and inclusion" training, which as anyone with a working brain knows, is bull pucks. The college's rationale was that Fiss, not the Jew-hating Islamist, was culturally insensitive and used her "power" as a professor to influence students' views.

However, when Fiss had previously complained about a statement from the Critical Ethnic Studies program that seemed to justify Hamas's violence, her concerns were hypocritically dismissed as free speech.

The Deborah Project claims CCA's policies favor left-wing anti-Zionism while punishing Jews who oppose it. They argue that Fiss has been severely discriminated against for not aligning with the college's ideological stance on Israel.

Lori Lowenthal Marcus, legal director of the Deborah Project, pointed out the irony that Fiss's expression of discomfort with support for Hamas's actions was overlooked as free speech, yet her own speech was labeled harassment.

Fiss is now fighting back against what she sees as an attack on her Jewish identity and her right to free speech, suing CCA for discrimination under Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and for breach of contract, claiming these actions have caused her significant harm.

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Anti-Zionist, Pro-Palestinian 'Eviction' Fliers Distributed to NYU Students

A group calling itself Students for Justice in Palestine at NYU is being "investigated" after they distributed false eviction notices at NYU's Palladium and Lafayette Dormitories, dorm that are populated by many Jewish students. I used scare quotes around the word 'investigated' because generally speaking, people are too scared to honestly investigate Islamic hatred and bigotry.

The group's leaders said they slipped over 2,000 Eviction Notice fliers under the doors at the two largest dorms, allegedly to "heighten awareness of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The co-president of this low-information group, Shafeka Hashash claimed that the fliers "are very, very obviously fake looking" and further claimed that the group was targeting Jewish students. One wonders if she might have been using taqiyya, the right for Muslims to lie for the benefit of Islam, and was able to do this with a clear conscience because the Islamic "holy" book refers to Jews and Christians as "apes and pigs." I used scare quotes around the word 'holy' for obvious reasons.

Brooklyn Assemblyman, Dov Hikind said the action showed "pure hate," and Laura Adkins, the vice president of TorchPac, a pro-Israel student group, said that the fliers were inaccurate and created a "hostile campus environment." The semi-useless Anti-Defamation League said they were an "unsettling intrusion." But John Beckman said that anonymously slipping the fliers under the doors of students "is not an invitation to thoughtful, open discussion."

No kidding.

Emad Rajeh, president of the pro-Palestinian group said the fliers were designated to resemble the eviction notices that Palestinians get before their houses are demolished. He made no mention of the Jewish houses that are rocketed and bombed, nor of the "Palestinians" who sneak into Israel and kill families in their beds, children and babies included. I used scare quotes around the word 'Palestinians' because there was never a country known as Palestine.

Ms. Adkins said, "Sneaking around in the dark of night and breaking NYU housing policy by distributing unapproved (fliers) bearing anti-Semitic language, as well as cherry-picking "facts" is no way to launch an education campaign. I suspect she used scare quotes around the word 'facts' because taqiyya doesn't require them to make their point.

One fact is that Muslims have hated Jews since Muhammad had his first sip of camel urine, married a 9 year old child named Ayisha, beheaded between 600 and 900 Jews of the Qurayish tribe, and even killed a pregnant woman.

The saying that: "Islam is a religion of peace" is an oxymoron.

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