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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Opinion What Jeremy Corbyn Can Learn From Linda Sarsour
One of the most important questions facing Jews on the Left today is whether there is a difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. It gets at the heart of dual, sometimes-paradoxical commitments: on the one hand, to be a member of a once persecuted and sometimes still persecuted minority; on the other hand, to use what…
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Opinion Linda Sarsour Is Not Our Enemy
How far are American Jews willing to go to discredit those perceived as adversaries of Israel? Are we ready to condone down and dirty investigations to dredge up compromising material on people sometimes inappropriately labelled as “enemies”? Conversely, might not constructive engagement be a more effective tactic than scorched earth attacks vis-a-vis fellow Americans with…
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News Tamika Mallory Slams Founding Of Israel As ‘Human Rights Crime’
Women’s March co-leader Tamika Mallory called Israel a state that “takes the lives of people who were there first.” Speaking via video at an event hosted by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Justice Delegation – the group of lawyers and civil rights activists, including Mallory, who traveled to the Holy Land last month…
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Fast Forward Israeli Intel Firm Collected Info On Linda Sarsour For Adelson-Backed Group
(JTA) — A private Israeli intelligence-gathering firm collected potentially damaging information on Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, according to a report in Haaretz. The firm, Israel Cyber Shield, was gathering the intelligence for Act.IL, a pro-Israel advocacy organization, according to the report published Thursday. The goal was to use the information to persuade U.S. colleges not to…
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News Support For Women’s March Softens Among Jews Amid Perceived Anti-Semitism
Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr says that participating in the first Women’s March in 2017 was “one of the most uplifting, powerful moments of my life. It was just an incredible experience.” That moment is over. Schorr feels anti-Semitism has tainted the march. “I can’t in good conscience say that I support a movement or feel…
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Opinion Why The ADL Must Be Included In Intersectional Activism
In 1996, the Anti-Defamation League settled a lawsuit accusing it of hiring spies to collect information on groups representing Arab and African-Americans. And in the years since then, it has often taken positions contrary to those held by pro-Palestinian groups. Both of these factors have generated concern among activist groups who may have been the…
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News Women’s March Leaders Slam Starbucks For Tapping ADL To Defuse Racism Furor
Left-wing leaders of the anti-Trump Women’s March have blasted Starbucks for tapping the Anti-Defamation League to help defuse the mushrooming controversy over a Philadelphia coffee shop manager’s decision to call the police on two young black men. Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour accused the civil rights group of bias against “black and brown people” and…
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Community I’ve Been Fighting Farrakhan’s Hate For Decades — With Music
The first time I heard Louis Farrakhan speak, he called Judaism a “gutter religion.” I was shocked that in the 1980’s, only 35 years after Auschwitz, that anyone would speak that way in public and not be denounced immediately. I was a cantor at a Conservative synagogue in Norwalk, CT, a diverse community about an…
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