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April 24, 2019
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Canadian
Mayor Wants Sarsour Removed From Panel
Apr 24, 2019 at 1:54 pm
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Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman wants to stop anti-Semitic activist Linda
Sarsour from participating in an event hosted in the Canadian city on
Friday, CBC reports.
Sarsour is set to speak at an event entitled, "Sorry Not Sorry:
Unapologetically Working for Social Justice," hosted by the Canadian
Muslim Women's Institute and the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg.
"Mayor Bowman does not feel it is appropriate to provide this
individual a public platform to further propagate anti-Semitic views and
hate," Bowman's office said in a statement.
During a city hall event on Tuesday, Bowman accused Sarsour of stoking
"racialized identity politics" and said that "she has
continually attacked the foundation of the state of Israel's right to
exist."
"It's less about the speaker than the social planning council
providing that platform and the message it sends to the Jewish community
and the community as a whole," Bowman added.
The mayor's comments were supported by several Winnipeg organizations
including the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg and B'nai Brith
Canada – a national advocacy organization on behalf of Canadian Jewry.
B'nai Brith Canada originally called on the event organizers to retract Sarsour's
invitation.
"She's used her platform to promulgate views that are highly
problematic, including charges of dual loyalty to Jews who are considered sufficiently
too supportive of the state of Israel," Ran Ukashi, a national
director at B'nai Brith Canada, said last month.
Accusations of dual allegiances among Jews have resurfaced in the
national spotlight after U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's recent string of
anti-Semitic comments.
Last month, Sarsour led a group of Islamist activists to lobby on Capitol
Hill against a resolution condemning anti-Semitic statements from Omar –
despite the resolution failing to mention Omar by name.
Sarsour
has a long track record of making extremist comments and refuses to condemn Nation of
Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's Jew-hating sermons. She not only is a vocal
critic of Israel's policies – she despises the very principle that led to
the Jewish state's emergence in 1948.
"Nothing is creepier than Zionism," she famously wrote on Twitter. Zionists who failed to meet her
threshold for sufficient support for Palestinians could not be feminists, she said.
"I am an unapologetic pro-BDS, one-state solution supporting
resistance supporter here in the U.S.," she told the Islamic
Association of North America (ISNA) convention last September, the IPT
exclusively reported.
"One-state solution" supporters are clearly advocating for the
destruction of the Jewish state by calling for one bi-national state with a
majority Arab population.
During the ISNA event, Sarsour also blamed Jews for police shootings of unarmed black
people because of an Anti-Defamation League program that takes police
executives to Israel to learn about fighting terrorism and riots. The ADL
is the most prominent Jewish organization in the United States.
Now, prominent Canadian Jewish organizations are working hard to prevent
Sarsour from having a platform to spew divisive rhetoric. Local politicians
across North America should follow Mayor Bowman's lead.
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