The White House hosted the anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour at a May 1, 2023, Eid al-Fitr celebration despite the Biden campaign stating in 2020 that then-presidential candidate Joe Biden “obviously condemns her views and opposes BDS,” the Washington Free Beacon reports.
Sarsour has said that Zionism is similar to “white supremacy in America” and questioned the Jewish state’s right to exist.
The Free Beacon, which obtained White House visitor logs, noted that Sarsour’s visit “garnered little attention at the time,” and that in 2020, after the Biden campaign said that “she has no role in the Biden campaign whatsoever,” it walked that back in conversations with Muslim and Arab activists and called its own dismissal of Sarsour “disrespectful” and “hurtful.”
