{"id":52070,"date":"2017-05-13T17:05:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=52070"},"modified":"2017-05-09T07:58:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T05:58:59","slug":"13-05-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=52070","title":{"rendered":"City Council Raises Pressure Over Honoring BDS Advocate Linda Sarsour"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>New York City Council Member Raises Pressure on CUNY Over Honoring of BDS Advocate Linda Sarsour<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ben Cohen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour (center). Photo: Facebook.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

As the row continues over the forthcoming honoring by the City University of New York (CUNY) of Linda Sarsour \u2013 a prominent advocate of the BDS campaign targeting Israel \u2013 a leading New York City Democrat is calling on fellow progressives to recognize her as a bigot.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Rory Lancman \u2013 a member of the New York City Council from Queens \u2013 told The Algemeiner in an interview on Monday that it was \u201cinappropriate\u201d for CUNY to honor Sarsour, given her persistent record of antisemitic and anti-Zionist statements. Sarsour is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at a June 1 commencement ceremony for CUNY\u2019s Graduate School of Public Health.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although Sarsour has been lionized by Democratic Party leaders \u2013 including former President Barack Obama, who named her as a \u201cChampion of Change,\u201d as well as New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who penned a tribute to Sarsour in Time magazine \u2013 Lancman takes a much less sanguine view of her public outbursts. These include tweets declaring that \u201cnothing is creepier than Zionism\u201d and open incitement against the anti-Islamist writers Brigitte Gabriel and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whom Sarsour said deserved an \u201ca$$ whipping,\u201d before adding that she wished she could have their \u201cvaginas taken away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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