Linda Sarsour

Linda Sarsour Wants To Have Her Cake And Eat It

The current horror in the seemingly everlasting Israel/Palestine conflict has generated comment and criticism worldwide, some of it informed, some of it not so. Recently, Linda Sarsour took part in a live YouTube hangout with a number of other pro-Palestinian voices including the anti-Zionist Jew Andrew Feinstein and everybody’s favourite moderate Marxist Jeremy Corbyn. Sarsour […]

The Biden Campaign Walks Back its Attack on BDS… Sort Of

Linda Sarsour, a prominent Palestinian American activist, got the cold shoulder from the Biden campaign last week, followed by a sotto voce apology – but an elephant lingers in the room with the initials B.D.S.
Sarsour has worked across the progressive agenda on issues running from immigration, mass incarceration, and Black Lives Matter, to name a few. But her position on free speech has overshadowed all the rest, and made her an outcast – at least temporarily – from the Joe Biden campaign.

Muslim “Feminist” Linda Sarsour Is Accused of Covering Up Sexual Assault

Linda Sarsour, the controversial Muslim activist and Women's March organizer, is accused of covering up the sexual assault of an underling and then bullying her into silence. Asmi Fathelbab worked as a contractor for Sarsour’s organization, the Arab American Association and reported that a man in the office pinned her against the wall and ​rubbed his crotch against her ​on ​numerous occasions. In response, ​Sarsour fat-shamed the woman on social media, and then had her​ blacklisted from political jobs in New York.

Syria, Linda Sarsour & The New Left & New Right

Women’s march organizer, and outspoken proponent of Saudi Arbaia, Linda Sarsour. (Photo: still from #InequalityIs: Linda Sarsour on inequality and race and religion)
For many people in the west, the traditional political compass seems broken, and “left” and “right” are almost indistinguishable in a confused political mess. The controversy surrounding the Arab-American figure now embraced by the Democratic Party, Linda Sarsour, illustrates this perfectly.

DemExiting

This past Saturday’s women’s march appeared to be a watershed mark in American activist history. Millions of people all over the world, but especially in the US, marched against the Trump Administration and for women’s equal rights and the rights of all others disenfranchised by the capitalist system: immigrants (documented or not), Palestinians, working poor, etc.