AFDI PROTEST SARSOUR AT CUNY
CUNY is standing by its decision to honor pro-terror, sharia activist Linda Sarour. The norming of evil.
They
disinvited Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nonie Darwish, Ann Coulter, Milos, legions
of conservative thinkers and voices in defense of freedom, but a
vicious, pro-sharia, Jew hater they will defend to the death and that is
it right there. They fear jihad. They fear Islamic supremacists. They
know no harm will come to them if they smear, defame, libel or cancel
us. They know we don’t destroy, maim, behead like Sarsour supporters and
their violent running dogs on the left.
Such sanction is so malignant and so evil, it cannot be ignored. There is a responsibility for the time we are living in. Ayn Rand said, "evil is made possible by the sanction youn give it. Withdraw your sanction."
We will be there. We will protest — this will not stand. Be there —
Let’s call upon President Trump to stop taxpayer funding of terror supporting universities.
Here is Sarsour's twitter feed:
The
left’s chokehold on the nation’s most powerful institutions continues
despite a Trump presidency and a Republican Congress, but this is a step
too far. My colleagues and I are blacklisted from speaking at almost
everywhere because we stand in defense of freedom and oppose jihad
terror and sharia. Anytime we are scheduled to speak, terror-tied
Islamic groups and their supremacist leaders demand we be cancelled. But this annihilationist is being given the honor of commencement speaker?
The
mainstreaming of evil leads to an unimaginable end. My colleagues and I
have been demonized, marginalized and defamed by the enemedia and the
cultural elites, while terrorists and their promoters enjoy promotion by
these same quislings. Anyone who doesn’t think academia is aligned with
the jihad force is deluded. Stop taxpayer funding of these hotbeds of
radical inculcation.
Adolf
Hitler and his violent, antisemitic political party the Deutsche
Arbeiterpartei – DAP (German Socialist Workers’ Party) — were on the
outer fringe of German society until he was invited to join mainstream
parties in opposition to the Versailles Treaty. Inviting Hitler to join
mainstream political parties in supporting the German referendum of 1929
was key, as it gained the Nazi Party recognition and credibility it
could never have hoped to have gained on its own. Influential German
businessman and politician Alfred Hugenberg made a coalition with
Hitler, which gave Hitler huge legitimacy. After failing at the ballot
box, Hitler, like Islamic supremacists in the West, came to understand
that that power was to be achieved not through revolution outside of the
government, but rather through legal means, within the confines of the
democratic system.
How appropriate that she be a darling of the left now.
An outspoken critic of Israel, Sarsour avidly supports the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement, a Hamas-inspired initiative
that uses various forms of public protest, economic pressure, and
lawsuits to advance the Hamas agenda of permanently destroying Israel as
a Jewish nation-state.
Vis-a-vis the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, Sarsour favors a one-state
solution where an Arab majority and a Jewish minority would live
together within the borders of a single country. She made clear her
opposition to Israel’s existence as a Jewish state when she tweeted in October 2012 that “nothing is creepier than Zionism.”
In 2004, Sarsour acknowledged
that a friend of hers as well as a cousin were both serving long
sentences in Israeli jails because of their efforts to recruit jihadists
to murder Jews. Moreover, she revealed that her brother-in-law was serving a 12-year prison term because of his affiliation with Hamas.
Speaking of creepy realtives, Sarsour’s husband, Maher Judeh, mourned the 1998 death of the Hamas “master terrorists” Adel and Imad Awadallah; he praised the heroism of a Palestinian Authority police officer who had carried out a shooting attack at a checkpoint in Israel; he has expressed support for the terrorist organization Fatah; and he has lauded the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary organization.
In October 2011, Linda Sarsour, who holds free-market economics in low regard, expressed, on behalf of “Muslim New Yorkers,” “solidarity and support” for the pro-communist Occupy Wall Street movement. In 2011 as well, the Obama Administration honored Sarsour as a “champion of change.” Not surprisingly, Sarsour visited the White House on at least seven different occasions during her beloved president’s tenure.
In May 2012 Sarsour tweeted that the so-called “underwear bomber,” an Al-Qaeda operative who in 2009 had tried to blow up a Detroit-bound passenger jet in mid-flight, was actually a CIA agent participating in America’s “war on Islam.”
In November 2012 in Baltimore, Sarsour—ever eager to peddle her woeful tale of Islamic victimhood—spoke at a Muslim Public Affairs Council conference titled “Facing Race: Xenophobic Hate Crimes.” This is the same Council that views the murderous Jew-haters of Hezbollah as members of “a liberation movement” that is “fighting for freedom.”
Sarsour was outraged when a police officer and an FBI agent shot
and killed a young black Muslim named Usaama Rahim in Boston on June 2,
2015, when Rahim lunged at them with a military-style knife
as they attempted to question him about suspected terrorism-related
activities. Naturally, Sarsour’s assessment
of the incident confidently traced everything back to race: “At the end
of the day, a Black man was shot on a bus stop on his way to work and
we should treat this like any other case of police violence.” Period.
End of story.
In August 2015 Sarsour spoke out in support of the incarcerated Palestinian Islamic Jihad member Muhammad Allan, a known recruiter of suicide bombers.
According to CounterJihad.com, Sarsour has attended and spoken at numerous rallies sponsored by Al-Awda, a group that views Israel as a terrorist, genocidal state whose very creation was a “catastrophe” for Arab peoples.
Sarsour has also solicited donations for the Hamas-affiliated Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.
There’s more.
She lied and wrongly portrayed the honor killing of Shaima Alawadi by her husband as a racist-islamophobic-anti-
She faked a hate crime against herself, scoring political points nationally by portraying a mentally ill black homeless man as a violent racist.
CUNY Defends Decision to Host Anti-Israel Activist as Commencement Honoree
Linda Sarsour will deliver commencement at taxpayer-funded school
By Adam Kredo, Free Beacon, April 26, 2017:
The
City University of New York (CUNY), a taxpayer-funded institution, is
doubling down on its decision to host a leading anti-Israel activist who
has been accused of anti-Semitism as its honored commencement speaker
next month, a move that has generated calls for New York Democratic Gov.
Andrew Cuomo to step in and cancel the address.
CUNY
is set to host Linda Sarsour, a leading voice in the anti-Israel
movement who has been condemned by human rights groups for her rhetoric
and promotion of terrorism against the Jewish state.
Sarsour,
a Palestinian American and executive director of the Arab American
Association of New York, is scheduled to give the commencement speech
for CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. 
Local
lawmakers and pro-Israel activists have expressed outrage over the
decision, calling on CUNY to cancel Sarsour’s appearance. CUNY leaders
have continued to praise Sarsour and maintain the speech will take place
as scheduled.
Sarsour
has earned a reputation as one of the country’s most virulent
anti-Israel activists. She has attacked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu as a “bigot” and routinely condemns the Jewish state as
racist. Sarsour attracted outrage in 2015 when she tweeted out a picture
of a Palestinian child with a rock in his hand accompanied by the
caption, “the definition of courage.”
Sarsour
became a darling of the activist left as a participant in the Women’s
March against President Donald Trump and other demonstrations. She also
has embraced and partnered with Rasmea Odeh, an anti-Israel activist and
convicted terrorist who was recently found guilty of immigration fraud
in the United States for failing to disclose her ties to terrorism.
Dov
Hikind, a New York City assemblyman and pro-Israel advocate, told the
Washington Free Beacon that Americans across the country should be
outraged that a taxpayer-funded school is celebrating an individual who
once praised child terrorism.
“This
is a woman who not so long ago put out a tweet with a picture of a
young child holding rocks in his hand and Linda Sarsour put in that
message, ‘the definition of courage,'” Hikind said in an interview with
the Free Beacon.
“The idea this woman would get this honor at a CUNY commencement, a place my tax dollars pay for, is unbelievable audacity.”
Sarsour
“is someone who is an apologist for terrorists, and that’s who we need
to be an example for graduate students at a tax-funded university here
in New York?” Hikind asked. “How do you justify in any way [these
views]? People should speak out everywhere. This should be a no
brainer.”
While
Hikind and other pro-Israel voices have spoken out against Sarsour’s
appearance at CUNY, Cuomo and activist voices such as the
Anti-Defamation League have remained silent.
“The
ADL speaks out 24/7 on defamation of the Jewish people and nothing can
be more defamatory than Linda Sarsour’s statements about Jews and her
glorification of Arabs throwing rocks at Israelis,” Hikind said in a
statement. “But following the invitation from CUNY for Sarsour to
address their graduates, the ADL’s silence has been deafening and
shameful.”
One senior official at a national Jewish organization told the Free Beacon that Sarsour’s appearance at CUNY demonstrates that anti-Israel activism is still being mainstreamed.
“Linda
Sarsour advocates a version of feminist intersectionality that, by
design, excludes liberal Jews who support Israel but welcomes radical
Muslims who deny women’s rights,” said the official, who was not
authorized to speak on record. “In that sense she’s perfect for today’s
upside-down academy. That doesn’t make what she says or what CUNY’s
doing any less disgraceful. It makes the whole thing more disgraceful.”
CUNY
has defended its decision to host Sarsour, telling students in a
community message it is committed to all types of free speech.
Ayman
El-Mohandes, the dean of CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health and
Health Policy, said in a statement that CUNY is committed to academic
freedom.
“I
hope you all join me in my firm view that a diversity of viewpoints and
an open exchange of ideas is at the heart of our country’s strength,
and our university’s strength,” El-Mohandes said in a statement. “It is
why we at CUNY are so committed to academic freedom, a bedrock principle
of our university.”
“This
will be a very special and meaningful commencement for all of us,”
El-Mohandes added. “I hope to see you all there to celebrate women in
leadership.”
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