The Women’s March founder is urging the group’s leadership to resign over anti-Semitism, just days after Linda Sarsour suggested Jewish people have dual loyalties, Fox News reported.
Teresa Shook, a retired lawyer who was behind the nationwide march of millions of women following the election of President Trump, published a statement on Monday urging the current leaders of the movement to step aside.
“In opposition to our Unity Principles, they have allowed anti-Semitism, anti- LBGTQIA sentiment and hateful, racist rhetoric to become a part of the platform by their refusal to separate themselves from groups that espouse these racist, hateful beliefs,” she wrote on Facebook.
She singled out the group’s board members Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez.
Just last week, Sarsour was condemned for saying the criticism against Minnesota Congresswoman-elect Ilhan Omar over her support for boycott of Israel is led by “folks who masquerade as progressives but always choose their allegiance to Israel over their commitment to democracy and free speech.”
Omar recently came out in support of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement against Israel, despite previously saying she doesn’t support it. She was also criticized for tweeting that “Israel has hypnotized the world.”
Accusing Jews of dual loyalty is one of the oldest and most pernicious antisemitic tropes. No surprise to see it coming from @LSarsour. How long will progressive leaders continue to look the other way in the face of this hate? pic.twitter.com/cY6Mg7KhB4
— AJC (@AJCGlobal) November 16, 2018
The progressive group’s continued alliance with the Nation of Islam and its leader Louis Farrakhan also drew scrutiny.
Mallory was accused of contributing to anti-Semitism after she was seen attending an event where Farrakhan said “the powerful Jew is my enemy.”
The Women’s March, as a group, defended Mallory and she herself said “I go into difficult spaces.” On social media, the activist said Farrakhan is the “GOAT,” meaning the “greatest of all time.”
Last year, Sarsour blamed “the Jewish media” for her and Farrakhan’s controversial reputation and pushed back against any accusations of anti-Semitism.
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Unless the Dems clearly and unequivocally separate themselves from these anti-semitic, anti-EY lefties, then their national candidates will be DOA for the 2020 election…they are just as toxic as the right-wing, white supremacists that dragged down many of the Trumpkopfs in the recent election cycle. I consider myself a centrist (albeit a bit liberal on some issues) but there is no room for those who demonize EY at every opportunity while giving the Palestinians a free pass on violence and terror.
Galus even in the “Malchus shel chesed” is not pashut, as the wake up call from Pittsburgh taught us r’l. But we see that the majority of people in the U.S. will stand up against the haters. H’ yishmareinu.
Gadolhadorah: Antisemitism? Compared to some of your comments about Haredim in Eretz Yisroel, Farakhan looks like a Jew lover…..
Here’s a quote from you about Haredim just a couple of days ago: “These disgusting excuses for productive human beings”
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/1625975/watch-100s-of-chareidi-women-met-by-extremists-who-protested-at-beit-shemesh-job-fair.html#comment-1673150
Here’s another beauty from Gadolhadorah Sept 20th: ”there sadly needs to be blood on the floor and broken bones until these Chareidi animals are convinced that ANY attack on a member of the IDF will be met countered with FORCE.”
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/1593899/watch-police-rescue-3-frum-soldiers-from-angry-mob-in-meah-shearim.html#comment-1571512
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I rarely if ever agree with Gadolhadorah, but he/she is right in those two instances
Is a person that robs a bank even though he holds חסידאשא שחיטה a Chareidi
You can’t be violent to a fellow Jew even though he’s “not religious” and call yourself Chareidi
Coffee addict: In the protest in Bet Shemesh -there was NO VIOLENCE WHATSOEVER!!- And you think she’s right calling shomer shabbos yeiden who are protesting ‘disgusting excuses for productive human beings’??????
And in the case where Godolhadorah calls for ‘broken bones and blood on the floor’, shouting and throwing pieces of cardboard is not ‘violence’ that warrants broken bones R’l’.
Gadolhadora’s rhetoric comes straight out of Nazi propaganda, nothing less…..