(JNi.media) Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab-American Association of New York, who enjoys close ties to the de Blasio administration, was engaged in a Twitter war this week, with Queens City Councilman Rory Lancman, over a photo Sarsour posted of an Arab child throwing a rock at Israeli soldiers, with the caption “the definition of courage,” the NY Post reported.
Sarsour, who campaigned for Mayor de Blasio (according to the Post, Mayor de Blasio’s office has repeatedly featured Sarsour in press releases supporting his education program), and whose group receives $164 thousand annually from the NY City Council, and is a senior strategist for the Campaign to Take on Hate. She co-founded Muslims for Ferguson to “build solidarity amongst American Muslim communities and encourage work against police brutality.” She is also the co-founder of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York. She has received the “Champion of Change” award from the White House, the New York City Council’s Shirley Chisholm Women of Distinction Award and the inaugural American Muslim of the Year honor from the Council on American Islamic Relations.
Councilman Lancman, who is Jewish, responded to Sarsour’s Sunday tweet, tweeting: “No, the definition of barbarism.”
Sarsour shot back: “City elected official attacking a constituent on foreign policy issue when they weren’t asked. Welcome to the NYC Council,” the ultimate dish out—don’t dish in attitude, eventually followed by: “The Zionist trolls are out to play. You will never silence me.”
Which should have alerted officials at the Campaign to Take on Hate, if said officials weren’t, essentially, Linda Sarsour. The Post cited one city political operative who complained that, “In one breath, she says she’s trying to bring people together and then she says some of the most divisive things I’ve ever seen on Twitter.”
Lancman said in a statement that, “Attacking Jews at their homes, schools, supermarkets, cafes, buses, roads, synagogues and seder tables is barbarous, and enlisting children to commit those acts is even more so.”
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no they are criminals
She is obviously a smuck.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/nyregion/mayor-de-blasio-on-israel-trip-plans-visit-with-palestinians.html?_r=0
Anyone associated with DeBlasio would have to be a complete idiot. No surprises here.
An outrageous statement by someone not under the direct control of another can always be found.
This is the epitome of cheap, putzwise journalism
It's practiced by partisan journalists of every stripe; and regardless of who does it, it's krapp
So you're suggesting this is not "newsworthy"?
What would DeBlasio know about courage?
So, Ch Hoffman, you are saying, that this should not have been reported? Would you have applied that same cavalier attitude if a Jew had said something as disgusting about Arabs?!?!?
Before you use a derogatory term at someone who says or reports some inconvenient truth that goes against your agenda, methinketh it would behoove thee to look at thyself in the mirror first…
Believe or not, Ch Hoffman, this is STILL a free country and while Linda Sarsour is well within her rights in expressing her opinions, everyone else has the same right to expose her falsehoods, her hypocrisy, her lies!
Chaim Szmidt she has all the right in the world to express her opinion, as do you or I.
But to call repeating a comment by x who knows y about z with the implied attribution of the comment to y is, was, and has always been putzy journalism
I hold no positive feelings towards DiBlasio whatsoever; and it certainly doesn't surprise me that among the lefties in his hanger-on entourage there are plenty of so'nei yisroel. But it's garbage journalism to make the jump; it's garbage when trashy little websites do it; it's garbage when fancy papers do it; and it's garbage when a Jewish paper does it.
Ch Hoffman Well you proved one thing you are an expert on garbage.
don't worry, Mayor DeBlasio said in a secret meeting, he would pledge allegiance to Likud/ Israel just after getting in office….
THE DEFINITION IS OF A MUZZY RETARD
Maybe some courageous American citizen will throw rocks at Linda Sarsour's head! That would be such a courageous act!
Get rid of the arabs and you get rid of your problems
Who wants to silence a fool who supports arab imperialism?
Yes this IS the solution to the conlict : run them out.
And I think it would be VERY courageous if somebody threw a rock at Linda Sarsour's head! Just sayin'.
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