Israel Can Let the Lights Go Out over Gaza
Don’t capitulate to Hamas’s extortion.
June 19, 2017
What Linda Sarsour represents.
The Arab-American activist Linda Sarsour has recently become a darling of the progressive left—treated to fawning magazine profiles, chosen to lead the anti-Trump women’s march, and invited to speak at academic and leftist events even while defending Saudi Arabia’s shameful record on women’s rights, insulting feminists who don’t share her opinions, singing the praises of Shariah law, and dilating on the alleged evils of Zionism. To James Kirchick, the ability to ignore certain forms of bigotry, especially anti-Semitism, typifies a certain kind of distorted thinking increasingly prevalent on the left:
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What Linda Sarsour represents.
Reading long after the ink has faded.