The auto insurance company GEICO has disinvited Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour from speaking at an internal company event after backlash from pro-Israel voices and groups groups. Organizations and individuals accused Sarsour of antisemitism and attacked her for being a critic of Zionism. Sarsour was scheduled to participate in a GEICO event celebrating Middle Eastern and […]
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GEICO cancels event with Linda Sarsour after backlash from pro-Israel groups
Pro-Israel groups’ campaign against Linda Sarsour targets another progressive institution — New School
Eight days from now, the New School in New York is scheduled to host a panel on anti-Semitism featuring two activists who support boycotting Israel, Linda Sarsour and Rebecca Vilkomerson of Jewish Voice for Peace. Because that panel will denounce the ways that anti-Semitism is used to shield Israel from criticism, the New School is […]
Ensconced at New York Times, pro-Israel advocate Bari Weiss smears Sarsour as a ‘hater’
and further Statement of Facts in New Jersey Trial of Assata Shakur: “As a member of Assata’s New Jersey trial legal defense team, and her appeal lawyer, I think a correct statement of the circumstances of New Jersey Trooper Werner Foerster’s death as established by exhibits, trial testimony and forensic evidence and that conclusively repudiate […]
The Jewish Defense League stalwart smearing Linda Sarsour
On May 25, Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind joined some of America’s most notorious hate-mongers to protest against Muslim-American activist Linda Sarsour’s then-forthcoming CUNY commencement speech, which took place on May 31. Hikind rubbed elbows with Milo Yiannopoulos and Pam Geller — both avowed Islamophobes, and the former disgraced after appearing to condone pedophilia — in order […]
Campaign to stop Linda Sarsour from speaking at CUNY was an epic flop
Sometimes a newsworthy event takes place when nothing unusual occurs. After months of campaigning to disinvite civil rights activist and co-organizer of the Women’s March, Linda Sarsour, from giving a graduation speech at the City University of New York (CUNY), Sarsour’s keynote went off without a hitch Thursday night. No one booed as they did […]
Syria, Linda Sarsour & The New Left & New Right
Women’s march organizer, and outspoken proponent of Saudi Arbaia, Linda Sarsour. (Photo: still from #InequalityIs: Linda Sarsour on inequality and race and religion) For many people in the west, the traditional political compass seems broken, and “left” and “right” are almost indistinguishable in a confused political mess. The controversy surrounding the Arab-American figure now embraced […]