Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Linda Sarsour, a Muslim civil rights activist and one of the organizers of the Women’s March on Washington.
Sarsour was accused of being anti-Semitic following the inaugural march in 2017, and since then,…
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Fast Forward Biden campaign disavows Linda Sarsour after her convention appearance
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign distanced itself from former Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour after the Palestinian-American activist spoke to Democratic National Convention delegates during one of the conference’s virtual assemblies. “Joe Biden has been a strong supporter of Israel and a vehement opponent of anti-Semitism his entire life, and he obviously condemns…
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News Sarsour Saga Shows Sanders’s Continued Struggles With Jewish Voters
A controversy involving a top campaign surrogate is proving to be a setback for Sen. Bernie Sanders as he works to earn more Jewish support ahead of the Iowa Democratic caucus, less than two months away. It’s the latest example of Sanders, the most successful Jewish presidential candidate in American history, drawing anger from Jewish…
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Fast Forward Sarsour, Other Leaders Accused Of Anti-Semitism Leave Women’s March
The Women’s March is moving on from three of its original four co-chairs, whose struggles to respond to anti-Semitism accusations undercut the movement they led, The Washington Post reported Monday. Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour will no longer sit on the board of the Women’s March. They stepped down July 15, but the…
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Fast Forward Sarsour: I’m Proud To Help Elect Sanders As First Jewish President
(JTA) — Controversial political activist Linda Sarsour has been named a surrogate for Bernie Sander’s 2020 presidential campaign. Sarsour, a Palestinian-American woman who is a supporter of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, spoke on behalf of Sanders over the weekend in Brooklyn, New York, according to a video excerpt of the speech….
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Fast Forward Who Had The Weirdest Take On Sarsour’s Weird ‘Jesus’ Tweet? Bibi.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that Philistines were from Europe in response to Muslim political activist Linda Sarsour’s comment that Jesus was Palestinian. Sarsour tweeted on Saturday that “Jesus was Palestinian of Nazareth and is described in the Quran as being brown copper skinned with wooly hair.” Netanyahu put out his own tweet on…
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Opinion Linda Sarsour And Bibi Netanyahu Are In A Cat Fight About Jesus. Don’t Engage.
Not all fights are worth having. Some things don’t matter. Others are puerile and ought to be beneath rational adult discourse. If a fellow adult approaches you on the street, looks you straight in the eye and tells you that his daddy is richer, stronger, more attractive than, or otherwise superior to your daddy, the…
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Fast Forward Linda Sarsour’s Claim That Jesus Was Palestinian Spurs Twitter Debate
(JTA) — Muslim political activist Linda Sarsour started a mini-Twitter war after tweeting that Jesus was Palestinian. “Jesus was Palestinian of Nazareth and is described in the Quran as being brown copper skinned with wooly hair,” she tweeted on Saturday. This led to a more than 24-hour debate about the Jewish and Palestinian roots of…
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Culture How Eli Valley’s Art Started An Anti-Semitism Scandal At Stanford
It began on Thursday, May 2, when members of the Stanford chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) posted flyers with cartoons by Eli Valley, a Jewish political cartoonist known for his provocative drawings of right-wing and Jewish figures. Soon after, Nazi-era propaganda appeared in freshman dorms. By May 7 one of The New…
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