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July 31, 2018
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Senior
MB Official Touts Linda Sarsour's Gaza Video
by John Rossomando • Jul 31, 2018
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When Linda Sarsour speaks, a senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood official
apparently likes what he hears.
Gamal Heshmat shared
an anti-Israel video by Sarsour on his Facebook page last Friday. In it,
Sarsour glosses over Hamas' role coordinating the "Great March of
Return" in May.
She fails to inform viewers that the protesters used kite bombs, incendiary balloons and rockets to try to attack Israeli civilian areas. She
does speak about the death toll, however, noting that 50 Gazans died on May
14.
"...[These] people didn't choose to die. People were killed. They
were massacred at the hands of snipers," Sarsour said in the video originally posted in May.
Subsequently, Hamas leaders took full credit for the violence, boasting that the overwhelming majority of casualties
were members of the terrorist group. Subsequent Israeli analysis confirmed the Hamas claim.
"This is not peaceful resistance," Hamas Politburo member Mahmoud al-Zahhar told Al-Jazeera on May 13. "Has the option (of
armed struggle) diminished? No. On the contrary, it is growing and
developing. That's clear. So when we talk about 'peaceful resistance,' we
are deceiving the public."
Heshmat belongs
to the Brotherhood's Shura Council, the legislative body that sets the group's agenda. It isn't
clear what prompted him to post the two-month old video Friday, but tried
to pretend the prominent Hamas role instigating the violence somehow was a
secret.
"The crimes of the Zionist Entity are increasing in light of
international protection which betrays its principles, and an Arabic
guardianship which thwarts its Umma, and an Islamic silence which harms the
Religion and forsakes the Truth, we will expose it to everyone to publish
and distribute," Heshmat wrote in the post.
Having a senior Brotherhood official tout her video is a bad look for
Sarsour, said Zuhdi Jasser, founder and president of the American Islamic
Forum for Democracy (AIFD).
"It's no longer credible to say that it's guilt by association when
a major thought leader in the Muslim Brotherhood is using her material to
establish a political agenda," Jasser said.
Sarsour's video calls for a Palestinian right to "return to their
original homelands" – a demand which would effectively eliminate
Israel as a Jewish state. She also called a "prison" due to a
blockade aimed at preventing Hamas from smuggling weapons into the area for
future terrorist attacks.
Top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh cited the same talking points in a June 7 column posted
on Hamas' website. Hamas wants Israel's destruction, nothing less.
Despite her hateful rhetoric, Sarsour remains a hot political commodity. She spent the weekend in Michigan campaigning for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
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