Linda Sarsour Shredded After Statement on Synagogue Shooting
The Palestinian-American activist who calls herself “every Islamaphobe’s worst nightmare,” Linda Sarsour, took to Twitter on Saturday to express outrage at the mass murder at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
However, her commentary didn’t go over as well as she likely thought it would.
In fact, Sarsour was absolutely shredded.
“Our places of worship should be sanctuaries,” Sarsour wrote. “We should all be free to practice our faith in this country without fear of being targeted.”
Whomever did this is a monster. Our places of worship should be sanctuaries. We should all be free and safe to practice our faith in this country without fear of being targeted. https://t.co/w2zbYz7oaN
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) October 27, 2018
Leave it to the Twitterverse to call out hypocrites. Not all of the responses to Sarsour were family-friendly, but some were, and were very poignant, as well.
In fact, the first response to her tweet came from former Israel Defense Forces Humanitarian Officer Hen Mazzig. His comment took her to task for her hypocrisy, especially in light of her well-known association with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Your best friend @LouisFarrakhan called us termites and preached for hate against us. You never said a word. Actually you have preached more hate towards us. Keep your thoughts for yourself, your support isn’t welcomed by the vast majority of our community.
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) October 27, 2018
Mazzig was not the only one taking aim at Sarsour’s association with anti-Semitism. In fact, more than one user pointed to Sarsour’s publicly expressed anti-Jewish, anti-Israel sentiments.
You embrace virulent antisemites and whitewash antisemitism.
You called the murdering of our people “resistance.”
You stated youre “proud” of @HatemBazian who RTs classic antisemitic hate speech
You embrace Farrakhan who calls us “termites”Your comments aren’t welcome here. pic.twitter.com/EqmvtnsRmD
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) October 27, 2018
Unbelievable. Have some shame. Keep quiet. Just a few weeks ago you called on your followers to dehumanize Jews in Israel. You are a repulsive anti Semite who should’ve been shunned a long time ago.
— Mike McD (@MickGMick) October 27, 2018
We are not to be used when it is convenient to your politics. You time and time again use our tragedies to fit your agenda yet on multiple occasions have said how Jewish people don’t belong to any of your movements. We are not your pawn.
— Sailor Jewpiter (@stuffkerensays) October 27, 2018
She also got hit over her “sanctuary” comment. Some Twitter users were brutal in attacking various aspects of it.
So when Hamas hides weapons in Mosques is that part of it being a sanctuary. Sorry I’m fuzzy on the details of your slight of hand with how you ignore Palestinian terrorism and support terrorist organizations.
— danielgold1 (@danielgold1) October 27, 2018
is @lsarsour condemning the slaughter because it was inside a synagogue but anywhere else would have been acceptable?
— Carmine Costantini (@carminecos) October 28, 2018
It seems Sarsour’s own past has caught up with her.
In early September, according to the New York-based Jewish news outlet The Algemeiner Journal, the virulently anti-Israel Sarsour said American Muslims are “complicit in the occupation of the Palestinians, in the murder of Palestinian protesters,” if they don’t take active sides against Israel.
“So when we start debating in the Muslim community about Palestine, it tells me a lot about you and about the type of faith that you have in your heart,” Sarsour said at at meeting of the Islamic Society of North America.
“If you’re on the side of the oppressor, or you’re defending the oppressor, or you’re actually trying to humanize the oppressor, then that’s a problem, sisters and brothers. And we got to be able to say: that is not the position of the Muslim American community.”
In a May interview with the news site Colorlines, Sarsour called herself “every Islamophobe’s worst nightmare.” But she’s more like an apologist for radical Islam in the United States, with disturbing ties to potentially dangerous organizations.
As many Twitter users pointed out, Sarsour could have chosen to remain silent about the synagogue atrocity.
Instead she chose to speak out, as though Americans will be unable to remember her own long association with anti-Semitic organizations like the Nation of Islam.
But she was wrong about that. American remember it well. And the Twitter response to Sarsour’s statement on the Pittsburgh synagogue killings proves it.
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