NYU to Host Sarsour Despite Her Fanatical Jew-Hatred

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I’m a free speech activist. This is not about free speech. Linda Sarsour is free to speak on college campuses and, by the way, frequently does, without the protests and smears that greet me and my colleagues on the rare occasions we are invited to speak on campuses. But it’s obscene that New York University would bring in this vicious anti-Semite, leader of the BDS movement, and supporter of sharia, without allowing the other side to be heard. The idea that this was the best that NYU could do, this is the role model that they are holding up to our children to emulate, is a stunning indictment of academia today. Linda Sarsour has said that Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Brigitte Gabriel deserve an ass-whipping and should have their vaginas cut off. She has said that the Christmas Day underwear bomber who tried to blow up a plane on Christmas Day over Detroit was a CIA plot. She stood proudly on a stage with a convicted terrorist who murdered Jews, Rasmea Odeh. She has said nothing is creepier than Zionism, Israel is an apartheid state, Prime Minister Netanyahu is a waste of a human being and a racist, and on and on. She faked a hate crime against herself to score political points nationally by portraying a mentally ill black homeless man as a violent racist. By the way, everyone in the neighborhood knew the man and liked him.

There is so much more about Sarsour that makes this a disastrous choice for NYU, and yet another indication of how much American academia has degenerated.

“NYU to Host Sarsour Despite Her Anti-Semitic Controversies,” IPT News, February 21, 2019:

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Linda Sarsour, dogged by accusations of anti-Semitism, will speak next month at a New York University program on immigration.

The announcement for the March 25 event, sponsored by NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute, makes no reference to Sarsour’s divisive views. It ignored the fact that the national Women’s March, which Sarsour helps lead, lost a number of significant sponsors including the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Emily’s List and the National Organization for Women (NOW), due to concerns about anti-Semitism and other issues from Sarsour and her colleagues.

Instead, it describes her as a “racial justice and civil rights activist” who is “[b]est known for her intersectional coalition work and efforts to build bridges across racial, ethnic, and faith communities.”

The missing caveat: She’ll build bridges as long as you share her hatred for Israel. In 2015, Sarsour pointedly rejected any solidarity gestures from people who want to stand by Muslims but also support Israel or oppose the campaign to boycott the Jewish state economically, academically and politically.

It built on her 2012 claim that “Nothing is creepier than Zionism,” a tweet that remains on her feed today. And, as the Investigative Project on Terrorism reported last fall, Sarsour finds a way to blame Jews for police shootings of unarmed black people. She points to a program run by the Anti-Defamation League that takes police officials for a week of seminars in Israel, “so they can be trained by the Israeli police and military, and then they come back here and do what? Stop and frisk, killing unarmed black people across the country.”

They are similar to a viewpoint she offered in 2015 during a speech at the 20th anniversary of avowed anti-Semite and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s “Million Man March.”

“The same people who justify the massacres of Palestinian people and call it collateral damage are the same people who justify the murder of black young men and women,” she said.

It’s not as if NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute had no warning. Sarsour’s 2017 participation on an anti-Semitism panel at the nearby New School drew widespread criticism.

NYU placed ninth among the nation’s worst campuses for Jews in a 2016 Algemeiner assessment because “NYU’s was one of the first graduate student governments to pass a BDS resolution, and Jewish students have been subject to antisemitic attacks, such as being served mock eviction notices.” School officials pushed back, but in December, it temporarily shut down the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life after finding “several public online postings by an NYU student which were antisemitic in nature and potentially threatening.”

Sarsour has not tried to explain or walk back her anti-Semitic comments. But she still is considered a worthy choice for an academic program at one of the country’s most prestigious institutions. That’s probably not going to help with those rankings.

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ConnectingDots
ConnectingDots
5 years ago

But, hey, she tweeted, “10 weeks of PAID maternity leave in Saudi Arabia. And ur worried about women driving. Puts us to shame.”

So, there’s that…

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Left/Liberal pro-jihadis/anti-nationals are corrupt paid shills for islam . paid by saudi/qatar/OIC

Merkel govt funded Pro-jihadi Left/Liberals run propaganda to create more sex slaves out of little children like in UK https://tinyurl.com/yd9jo5mf

Do these scumbags have any conscience ?

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

THE ISLAMIC CONSCIENCE WAS CREATED BY ITS RELIGIOUS FOUNDER MUHAMMAD IN THE SHARIA WHICH AGREES WITH THIS BEHAVIOR! THEY SIMPLY DON’T SEE WHAT THEY DO AS WRONG AS THEIR VERSION OF RIGHT AND WRONG IS SCREWED IN ITS DIFFERENCES TO OUR’S MAKING US CERTAIN VICTIMS WHEN THEY GROW NUMEROUS! THE FACT THAT WE WON’T ADMIT THIS IS THE REAL PROBLEM!

artist
artist
5 years ago

this muslima drek is also an enthusiastic cheerleader for the ” cultural benefits” of Female Genital Mutilation.
It is abhorrent that she would suggest that Ayaan Hirsi Ali have her ” vagina cut off” since Ayaan has been open about having been barbarically mutilated as a young girl but that’s par for the course for this terrorista darling of the dhimmicrats.
I hope there are people there protesting this succubus.

marble granite
marble granite
5 years ago

PETROdollars.

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
5 years ago

THE TRUTH BE TOLD IS THAT NYU IS NOT A GOOD SCHOOL! JEWS OF NYC NEED TO GET DOWN ON THIS SITUATION! BEING MEEK AND QUIET DIDN’T HELP IN 1920’S GERMANY AND IT DOESN’T HELP NOW!
THEY NEED TO START A BDS CAMPAIGN OF THEIR OWN AGAINST ANTI-SEMITIC INSTITUTES LIKE NYU! AT LEAST, THEY COULD DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND AROUND NYU AND CRASH/PROTEST THAT MEETING! WHERE IS THE JDL WHEN YOU REALLY NEED IT? A QUESTION FOR NYC’S JEWISH COMMUNITY-WHERE ARE YOUR SPINES TO PUT UP WITH ALL THIS? THERE ARE ENOUGH JEWS IN NYC TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IF THEY WOULD PUSH BACK & I DO KNOW THAT!

Charlotte
Charlotte
5 years ago

Not surprised. NYU has a campus in UAE

It re-invents itself as a “global netwrok ” university with campuses in non democratic countries

So automatically they cannot be seen to love Jews
Dirtbags

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/11/nyu-establishes-campuses-and-sites-around-globe

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Village.

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NYU reinvents itself as a “global network university,” but critics at

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