You know the Women’s March has become toxic when not even Alyssa Milano will associate with the group until it rids its leadership team of those who are buddy-buddy with notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.
In fact, pressure has become so great on the group that its founder, Teresa Shook, has called on co-chairs Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour, and Carmen Perez to step down over “racist, hateful beliefs,” although Sarsour did offer a personal “sorry you misunderstood us” non-apology.
OPINION: Women’s March is the wrong target in the fight against anti-Semitism, writes Daniel Sieradski https://t.co/PDZqTaDigH pic.twitter.com/wQ1jdRUL2o
— JTA | Jewish news (@JTAnews) November 21, 2018
Now the Women’s March has found a defender in writer Daniel Sieradski, who argues in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s Jewish news that anyone who wants to rail against someone who’s anti-Semitic should be angry with President Trump, not the Women’s March:
Not three weeks after the worst massacre of Jews by a white supremacist in American history, Jewish liberals and conservatives alike have found a target for their wrath, and it’s none other than Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour.
Here’s why I’m fuming:
Any day now the president of the United States can sign an executive order, as he has threatened to do, that will strip citizenship from those who were born in America to parents that were here illegally. Forgive me if I take this personally, as the son of a septuagenarian mother who was born to two Holocaust survivors who sneaked into the country by overstaying their tourist visas.
While this possibility simmers in the background, undocumented and documented immigrants are being rounded up, thrown in cages, having their kids taken from them and sent halfway across the country, and are then deported without their children. These kids, who when they are are lucky enough to be reunited with their parents, suffer from severe emotional and psychological trauma from which they may never recover.
In light of this and the administration’s attacks on the rights of transgender men and women, women’s right to choose, the rights of workers to organize in their workplaces and the right of black people to vote, it becomes clear that everything this administration stands for will result in the destruction of all that we as Jewish people of conscience purport to care about.
What about the Women’s March’s leadership’s embrace of Louis Farrakhan? Sieradski calls Farrakhan “a virtual nobody with virtually no power in the broader American context.”
It’s a lousy argument, but it did catch the eye of the Jerusalem Post’s Lahav Harkov, who remembers Sieradski as the guy who once tweeted his wish that the Post would burn down and all its employees contract cancer.
It’s so lovely that mainstream publications are promoting a person who threatened death to the entire JPost staff…because we published opinions he doesn’t like. https://t.co/i9BsrSfPU6
— Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) November 21, 2018
Oh yeah, this is definitely someone whose opinions we should respect. h/t @sfrantzman pic.twitter.com/JLYVD477fh
— Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) November 21, 2018
“If your newspaper burned down & you all got cancer it would be too good for you.” Yep, this dude has some strong opinions — and they suck.
The JTA just published someone who wrote the most horrid things against my colleagues at The Jerusalem Post in 2014; shameful ; I really hope the JTA will reconsider publishing this pic.twitter.com/x7BlET3q3z
— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) November 21, 2018
Hey, if he was good enough for the New York Times:
.@nytimes forgot to put in bio that he publicly wished to burn down JPost office & that staff would get cancer https://t.co/apoaOJ3oTk
— Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) June 13, 2016
Daniel Sieradski is a vile journalist and a horrible person overall. He has wished death and illness upon other journalists (specifically from JPost) that he does not agree with. His word means nothing.
— The Thinker (@ThaThinkingMan) November 21, 2018
But he’s woke ??
— Eli Neuberger (@thevoos) November 21, 2018
So woke:
The argument presented in this guy's opinion piece can be summed up as :
"Antisemitism doesn't matter because Trump dislikes Mexicans"
"Farrakhan isn't so bad because Netanyahu"
"Women's movement condemned Farrakhan , but didn't"
"Leftist antisemitism isn't really leftist"
— Omer_C1 (@Omer_C1) November 21, 2018
The guy's comparison of Farrakhan with Netanyahu is also absurd. Like or hate him , Netanyahu has yet to call Arabs "termites" or espouse support for figures genocidal towards Arabs (as Farrakhan did with Hitler)
— Omer_C1 (@Omer_C1) November 21, 2018
Lastly, his idea that American Jews should just go along with the likes of BDS and other antisemitic organisations , simply because leftists like him find those organisations to be "woke" , is absurd.
— Omer_C1 (@Omer_C1) November 21, 2018
Every paragraph in that article is hot garbage. We’re all dumber for having read it. The author is an embarrassment to humanity, and may God have mercy on his soul.
— Deucalion24 (@deucalion24) November 21, 2018
If I tried to write a parody column composed of vapid thoughts, question-begging, apologias, and inane cliches by a leftist "Jewish activist," I would be hard-pressed to do better than this column, which I think is serious.
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) November 21, 2018
I dunno, folks who endorse Farrakhan, attend Farrakhan's rallies, receive shout-outs from Farrakhan, and refuse to renounce Farrakhan seem like good targets in the fight against anti-Semitism, unless all those don't count if you have the right politics?
— Elenti (@ScarletElenti) November 21, 2018
Joke of an article
— NotoBene (@NYCGuy922) November 21, 2018
"Some anti-Semitism is actually fine, writes Daniel Sieradski".
— Rurik (@RurikVarangian) November 21, 2018
did you guys become an onion site? Partaking in revisionist history, defending anti-semites, blaming Jews for racism… did you guys just get bought out by der sturmer?
— PhiL Haggardy (@ZealouslyQuoted) November 21, 2018
STOP promoting Linda Sarsour and her fellow antisemitic colleagues. It's exactly the right target.
— Jana Lein (@Jana_Leiiin) November 21, 2018
This guy has no credibility. Embarrassing that you published him and his absurd take.
— T (@EliCash22) November 21, 2018
The Left will consume themselves
— Mark (@klondikeblame) November 21, 2018
Related:
'Kiss my a**'! Anti-Semitic cockroach Linda Sarsour slammed for this 'bullsh*t apology' https://t.co/JUxXtD7l38
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 21, 2018
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