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February 21, 2019
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NYU
to Host Sarsour Despite Her Anti-Semitic Controversies
by IPT News • Feb 21, 2019 at
8:59 am
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Linda Sarsour, dogged by accusations of anti-Semitism, will speak next month at
a New York University program on immigration.
The announcement for the March 25 event, sponsored by NYU's
Asian/Pacific/American
Institute, makes no reference to Sarsour's divisive views. It ignored
the fact that the national Women's March, which Sarsour helps lead, lost a number of significant sponsors including the
Democratic National Committee (DNC), the Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC), Emily's List and the National Organization for Women (NOW), due to
concerns about anti-Semitism and other issues from Sarsour and her
colleagues.
Instead, it describes her as a "racial justice and civil rights
activist" who is "[b]est known for her intersectional coalition
work and efforts to build bridges across racial, ethnic, and faith
communities."
The missing caveat: She'll build bridges as long as you share her hatred
for Israel. In 2015, Sarsour pointedly rejected any solidarity gestures from people
who want to stand by Muslims but also support Israel or oppose the campaign
to boycott the Jewish state economically, academically and politically.
It built on her 2012 claim that "Nothing is creepier than
Zionism," a tweet that remains on her feed today. And, as the Investigative
Project on Terrorism reported last fall, Sarsour finds a way to blame Jews
for police shootings of unarmed black people. She points to a program run
by the Anti-Defamation League that takes police officials for a week of
seminars in 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."
They are similar to a viewpoint she offered in 2015 during a
speech at the 20th anniversary of avowed anti-Semite and
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's "Million Man March."
"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.
It's not as if NYU's Asian/Pacific/American Institute had no warning.
Sarsour's 2017 participation on an anti-Semitism panel at the nearby New
School drew widespread criticism.
NYU placed ninth among the nation's worst campuses for Jews in a 2016 Algemeiner assessment because "NYU's was
one of the first graduate
student governments to pass a BDS resolution, and Jewish students have
been subject to antisemitic attacks, such as being served mock eviction
notices." School officials pushed back, but in December, it temporarily shut down the Bronfman Center for Jewish
Student Life after finding "several public online postings by an NYU
student which were antisemitic in nature and potentially threatening."
Sarsour has not tried to explain or walk back her anti-Semitic comments.
But she still is considered a worthy choice for an academic program at one
of the country's most prestigious institutions. That's probably not going
to help with those rankings.
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