Linda Sarsour
The Arab American Association of New York supported anti-Israel protests in Brooklyn shortly after Oct. 7 that “quickly devolved into a riot,” per the “Washington Free Beacon.”
The support for a “genocidal mass murderer” shows “a horrifying, large underbelly of antisemitism and extremism,” said Ryan Mauro, of Capital Research Center.
In 2020, the Biden campaign said he “obviously condemns her views and opposes BDS.”
The political activist and former Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour reportedly led the protesters.
Speakers included political activist Linda Sarsour • Jewish Voice for Peace was among the groups leading the agitating.
CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case that proved connections to the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas and other radical Islamic entities.
Biden campaign senior advisor Symone Sanders told JNS: “We continue to reject the views that Linda Sarsour has expressed.”
Andrew Bates, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, told CNN that the political activist “has no role in the Biden campaign whatsoever.”
“The fact remains that the folks at ViacomCBS thought that a woman who lauded an anti-Semite like Louis Farrakhan is a symbol of ‘inclusion,’ ” said Dexter Van Zile, a researcher at CAMERA.
“Why would they help promote the idea of someone who has spoken in such ugly terms about American Jews and the victims of Islamist violence? It’s unbelievable!” exclaimed CAMERA researcher Dexter Van Zile.
Jamaal Bowman, a progressive Democrat running to unseat incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) in New York’s 16th Congressional District, said he was “grateful to be endorsed by” and “incredibly proud to work with the Jewish Vote to take on anti-Semitism.”
She said that she’s also advocating for clean water in her Michigan district and “fighting for clean water in Gaza.”
