Posted on 03/14/2017 3:19:16 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Prominent Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, a leader in the feminist movement, said in an interview published Monday that Zionists cannot be feminists.
Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of New York, spoke with Collier Meyerson of the Nation about the relationship between feminism and Zionism, the movement to reestablish and maintain a Jewish nation in Israel, the Jewish people's ancient homeland.
Sarsour was dubbed a "champion of change" by the Obama administration and has been active in the feminist movement, serving as co-chair of the Women's March on Washington the day after President Donald Trump's inauguration and helping organize the "Day Without a Woman" strike earlier this month.
During the latter event, Sarsour spoke at a rally on International Women's Day in New York City.
She was later arrested for disorderly conduct.
Meyerson asked Sarsour about a recent op-ed in the New York Times in which Emily Shire, the politics editor for Bustle, asked, "Why should criticism of Israel be key to feminism in 2017?"
"When you talk about feminism you're talking about the rights of all women and their families to live in dignity, peace, and security," Sarsour told Meyerson. "And Israel is a country that continues to occupy territories in Palestine, has people under siege at checkpoints–we have women who have babies on checkpoints because they're not able to get to hospitals [in time]."
Sarsour, who once glorified child terrorists fighting against Israelis, suggested that support for Israel is incompatible with feminism.
"It just doesn't make any sense for someone to say, "Is there room for people who support the state of Israel and do not criticize it in the movement?" she said. "There can't be in feminism. You either stand up for the rights of all women, including Palestinians, or none. There's just no way around it."
Sarsour also praised the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, which seeks to wage economic war on Israel, as a natural part of feminism.
"What's interesting here is that feminism is a movement and BDS is a tactic. That's the first thing Shire doesn't understand. But that's the reason why BDS makes sense within the feminist movement, or really within any social justice movement," Sarsour said.
"BDS can be used in the feminist movement to demand change and demand more rights for women," she added. "BDS has been used as a tactic to raise awareness for Palestinian people, including women and their children."
Sarsour has raised controversy in recent years for criticizing Israel and Zionism. In 2012, she wrote that "nothing is creepier than Zionism," equating it with racism.
Linda Sarsour ✔ @lsarsour Nothing is creepier than Zionism.Challenge racism, #NormalizeJustice. Check out this video by @remroum http://bit.ly/Rr6pPK 10:39 AM - 31 Oct 2012 8 8 Retweets 7 7 likes
She has also called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "waste of a human being" and a "bigot."
Last year, Sarsour attacked an African-American pro-Israel activist because she "forgot where she came from."
Sarsour has often used her Twitter account as a platform to express her views about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2015, she appeared to present a Palestinian child holding rocks as "the definition of courage."
"Palestinians often hurl rocks and other objects at Jews and Israeli security personnel," the Washington Free Beacon reported at the time.
There has never been an official country of ‘palestine’, but Eretz Israel has existed since 1948.
This Sarsour skirt should be locked up for being a member of a terrorist organization, the P.L.O.
What even amazes me more is to see Jews associate with this evil b*tch and think she is some kind of icon. I went to Temple last week(Its near my house so its the reason why I sometimes go there) and in their pamphlet for the week they had a story about her..that even though “They differ in opinion on Israel” that they have great respect for her..really..great respect for someone who wants to see Israel wiped off the face of the earth..Okie Dokie
How a hijab wearing anti-Semite became the arbiter of what a “feminist” is and isn’t, must be the most ironic thing I have ever heard of! O how low has feminism gone down!
Ship her off to ISIS. After she gets raped 100 times or more, she just might have a different opinion. Then again, she just may have literally lost her head.
Just one more ignorant blithering idiot we don’t need to hear from.
Sarsour is NOTHING but a Muzzlime hate monger and provocateur. She is targeting the gullible STOOPID libtards by trying to appeal to one of their indoctrinated hot buttons, in this case, “feminism”. All she is trying to do, in reality, is rile up these gullible fools so that once they raise their fists to protest “sexism” or whatever, they will be in an agitated state and thus less prone to reason out the next thing she feeds them, “The Jews are causing your problems”. Thus, they will raise their vacuous fists to the antisemitism as well, so that it rides on the coattails of the original indoctrinated hot button. Sarsour is a dangerous person, who would not be of the slightest consequence if we had a thinking, reasoning public instead of one having knee jerk hard wired reactions to indoctrinated code words or phrases like “You are being kept down...”
Oh, well if SHE says so, it must be true, right?
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Because Soros bankrolls her and her BDS and her smirk.
Feminism is the same as communism. You’ve been duped ladies!
A woman who wants other women in chains wants to speak for you!
What a joke Sarsour is. She tweeted in 2011 that she would like to take away the vagina of Hirsi Ali, a victim of Female Genital Mutilation.
And this woman is embraced by many modern feminists. FGM is a vile and evil practice.
As if a Muslim slave girl should be telling American women how to be “free”!
Islam sowing hate everywhere it goes....
War is peace.
Ignorance is strength.
Freedom is slavery.
Islam is peace.
Linda Sarsour is right.
Whew. I sure dodged that bullet.
In Sweden they have women having babies because they were gang raped by Muslims. Sarsour? Yaa sayida Sarsour? Hello?
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