Washington – Linda Sarsour defended the legality of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel during her speech on stage in Washington D.C. at the third Women’s March, hours after rejecting the anti-Semitic statements of Louis Farrakhan.
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Sarsour, a leader of the Women’s March movement, called herself “a proud Palestinian-American woman” and said that “there are no perfect leaders” in her remarks in Saturday. She said that “the media can talk about any controversy they want, but the real controversy is in the White House,” a reference to charges of anti-Semitism among the movement’s leadership.
“We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest and sanctions in this country,” Sarsour also said, a reference to pending legislation in the Senate to allow state and local governments to refuse to use the services of companies that boycott Israel.
Prior to attending the march, Sarsour on Saturday morning told CNN’s New Day Weekend with Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul that the Women’s March rejects anti-Semitic and homophobic statements by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
“We unequivocally have rejected the comments made by Minister Farrakhan on LGBTQ communities and on Jewish communities. We have said multiple times on our statements at womensmarch.com, we unequivocally denounce transphobia and ask people to ask us directly and to read our statements and understand we have been doing this work before there was a Women’s March,” she said. “And our track records are very clear: That we have stood up for all communities. We are the first people on the front lines when there is a fight for justice in this country.”
She noted her meeting earlier in the week with 13 rabbis from the New York area, after which nine of the rabbis endorsed her and the Women’s March.
“What that proves is that we have been doing the work. We have been learning and evolving as a movement and people have to understand that we are trying to create a big tent of women of all religious backgrounds, people of color — people of different sexual orientations, even people across the different ideology,” Sarsour said.
“We are a polarized nation so we went to the rabbis. We had a meeting and talked about issues of pain and trauma and historical trauma and trauma of black people in America. Muslims, refugees. So we will continue those conversations,” Sarsour said.
For the third year in a row, the main Women’s March was held in Washington D.C. and hundreds of sister marches were held across the country. According to reports there were fewer participants than in previous years, in part due to the accusations of anti-Semitism against the leadership of the March.
Three of the speakers on the main stage on Saturday were the three Jewish women named last week to the Women’s March steering committee: transgender rights activist Abby Stein; Union for Reform Judaism staffer April Baskin; and Jewish diversity activist Yavilah McCoy.
Marches not affiliated with the national march also were held on Saturday in cities throughout the country.
The new face of the Democrat party. Any Jew who supports them, much worse, votes for them has serious problems,
She needs to be expelled or killed
The ‘Left’ and the alt-Right have been taken over by BDS mamzer Israel-haters and barnyard Jewhaters like the PLO gals in Congress. We Jews are again on our own. Too bad they are supported by self-hating NK and Satmaroids that split Yiddishekeit into weak fragments of discord and self-hate. Future is bleak until these kults join shtarke Zionist Israel, the only ones to stand up for us and WIN in 1927 years!
Gillibrands best friend
Inasmuch as I detest her anti semitism, but I have to admire her tznius beauty and חן. Her morality is exemplary and a lesson for all us women.
Where is that great individual Chucky “the liar” Schumer who claims to be the protector of the Jews and Israel. We haven’t heard a peep from this low life about all the Israel haters in Congress and that is hard from a loud moth like him. New Yorkers just keep on re-electing this phony and you get what you deserve. I am so happy having left this cesspool called New York.