Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, is set to deliver the keynote speech at a social justice conference in New York, an event that’s been organized and funded by those who support the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.
Could the good senator spit in the face of Israel again, please?
The conference is scheduled for Brooklyn Museum, from October 19 through October 21.
The Washington Free Beacon has the story:
[It’s] is described as “three days of dynamic programming exploring the intersections of art and social justice,” a “full schedule of … inspiration,” with lectures and “thinkshops.”
The conference is co-sponsored by JPMorgan Chase and the Open Society Foundations, founded and funded by prominent left-wing billionaire George Soros. One of the organization’s objectives is to erode Israel’s status as a democracy on the world stage, according to internal emails leaked last year.
Senior program officer for Open Society, Alvin Starks, is slated to speak at the event, as will the head of the Center for American Progress, another Soros project.
Black Live Matter co-founders Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi will both be giving speeches. Garza has defended the Movement for Black Lives platform‘s inclusion of a pro-BDS policy, and both women have been outspoken about their condemnation of Israel on social media.
This summer, Garza repeatedly tweeted her support for the Chicago Dyke March organizers expelling two Jewish Zionists from the event, writing, “Shoutout to @DykeMarchChi for standing up for their principals when folks tried to take it over for their own agenda.”
Meanwhile, Tometi has retweeted a link to a report claiming Israel forcibly sterilized female Ethiopian immigrants, a story that blew up on anti-Israel websites in 2013 after over 30 Ethiopian women claimed they were forced by Israeli officials to take contraceptives without their consent. An Israel governmental probe concluded in 2016 found “no evidence” of truth to these claims.
Tometi tweeted in 2012, “I can’t believe that sh*t!” in response to an Israeli flag being hung outside the New York Stock Exchange, in honor of the annual America-Israel Friendship League Israel Day at the NYSE.
Women’s March national co-organizers Linda Sarsour—who has repeatedly compared Zionists to white supremacists—and Bob Bland will be offering the “The Resistance Revival” Workshop. Sarsour and Bland recently appeared with their fellow Women’s March leaders at a Johns Hopkins University lecture series, a move criticized by Jewish student leaders.
Murad Awawdeh, the director of political engagement at the New York Immigration Coalition, will also be speaking at the conference. A frequent defender of Sarsour online, Awawdeh has called on the world to “come to grips that ISRAEL is racist, apartheid, hostile, terrorist state not interested in peace.”
Other respected voices in the BDS movement—which seeks to isolate Israel economically and culturally as a form of punishment for the ongoing Palestinian conflict—who will be featured at the museum include writer Claudia Rankine, who was involved in the successful 2017 call on the PEN American Center to reject funding from Israel for its major World Voices literary festival; and artist Tania Bruguera, who contributed an essay to a how-to anthology on boycotting apartheid, from South Africa to Israel, called Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production.
The schedule also includes talks from Planned Parenthood’s executive vice president and chief brand and experience officer, Dawn Laguens; President Barack Obama’s special assistant for Native American affairs, Jodi Gillette; and CNN political commentator and columnist Sally Kohn.
The conference will kick off Thursday evening with the annual feminist Sackler Center First Awards. Last year’s awardee was Angela Davis, the communist activist and Black Panthers supporter, acquitted in 1972 after guns she bought were used in the fatal courtroom shooting of a judge.
Gillibrand, a New York native, came under fire when she pulled her endorsement of the bipartisan Israel Anti-Boycott Act in late July, as many wondered if she had wavered in her anti-BDS position. Gillibrand responded with claims of free speech concerns.
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Disgusting. The Union of Reform Congregations should be very proud of themselves.
A sad day indeed. This senator needs to be voted out. Standing in with Linda Sansour or Gorge Soros is pretty low.
Gillibrand is a cipher, a joke, an embarrassment – which makes her a person to watch in the Democrat party.
Betwixt that bitch and UpChuckySchumer, I don’t know which is a clone of the other… a pair of tits on a boar
She is Upchucks “Protégé.”
Another ditzy democrat whoring out her position to promote hate and bigotry.
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And sell out America……I guess Muslim dhimmis come in all shapes and sizes…., but predominately Demoncrats…..
democrats are the American franchise holders for “islam” head office mecca saudi arabia.
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Muslim hater dirty kuffar natanyahoo’s dikk likker
Thanks for outing yourself as one of the scummy Muslim trolls courtesy of payments for your kind from Killary/Soros foundations. You are sick and twisted and I hope Pamela permanently bans you from her site….no matter how many avatars you create. BLOCKED.
Once a Muslim hater always a Muslim hater..
Just another stupid Islamolusting blonde bimbo.
I must have missed the announcement. When was this moron promoted to Bimbo?
Why can’t 100,000 conservatives send her tweet/email condemning her for supporting Islamic terrorists hamas /Palestinians and supporting anti-semitism http://bit.ly/2rOmfyJ
And why can’t Trump investigate open society for its support to BLM/ Antifa rioters and supporting anti-semitism via BDS ?
Americans that stand with the likes of soros / sarsour are at best naive to a fault (deep within the infantile spectrum) or at worse, scum bag Antisemites / corrupt
Influential “progressives” (In politics, the MSM, Academia, bureaucracy [“Deep State”], big business, the entertainment & arts establishments [Hollywood, NY], NGO’s) are 1000 times more dangerous to the future of the free world (the “west”) than 1.6 billion primitive / barbaric / Anti Christian / Antisemitic / homophobic / blood thirsty (to varying degrees), will ever be…
Whatever happened to AIPAC? In the old days anti-Semites like Gillibrand would never be elected in the first place.
If these people who advocate social justice truly championed it, they would be supporting the Middle East’s only real stable democracy instead of attacking it.
You may or may not dislike Israel, but a Middle East ruled and inhabited by Arabs alone would be a very dark place.
This is the loathsome bitch that gave a speech at some college and used the word F–k and said it was okay because it was a young audience. That was when the Democraps had elected the replacement for DNC chair and thought it would be cool and they would appeal to the young people to say S–t and F–k as a means to relate to the young. I was always taught that adults did the opposite and tried to teach good conduct and not to be crude or vulgar. Now add old Harvey Weinstein to the mix and all the whores in Hollywood buying out all the Listerine and other mouth wash, looking at you Matt Damon and Russell Crowe as well and you have all that this hag stands for.
Maybe she could be packed up and sold off in a muslum slave market in Mauritania or the Sudan — blondes still fetch good prices there, even if slightly used.
SOCIAL JUSTICE, DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM, AND THE KRAZY-GLUE
If you want to destroy “justice,” just KrazyGlue the adjective “social” in front of it, and voila! — you have collectivist bullshirt masquerading as “the moral high ground.”
It’s a simple ruse — it’s the Political Phony-Baloney Machine — KrazyGlueing “social” in front of the word “justice” — and KrazyGlueing “democratic” in front of the word “socialism.”
Both of these tricks are intended to deceive the intellectually lazy — in the former case to destroy the concept of pure, stone-cold justice — think of the face of “Clint Eastwood,” for example — by reversing it into “charity” [injustice] — and in the latter case to award socialism with a figleaf to dress-up the socialist bullshirt a little.