@GEICO, by now you've heard a lot of people are upset that you gave a platform to Linda Sarsour. Here's a summary of her long track record of spreading hate:
Sarsour has close ties to the Nation of Islam (NOI), a racist, #antisemitic & homophobic hate group, according to @splcenter. Sarsour pays NOI members to act as her security detail & embraces their hateful leader Louis Farrakhan.
In July, 2021 she shamelessly exploited the devastating building collapse in Surfside, FL in order to smear the #Jewish state. The collapse killed 98 people, many of them Jewish.
In November, 2021, she campaigned in support of convicted terrorist Aafia Siddiqui. Siddiqui promoted vicious #antisemitic conspiracy theories during her trial and her case inspired the recent synagogue hostage crisis in Colleyville, TX.
Hatred against Muslims and hatred against Jews are equally unacceptable. While Sarsour should never face bigotry or harassment, everyone has a right to criticize her spreading hate and @GEICO should not be giving her a platform.
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Multiple UN Secretaries-General have condemned the UN's "Human Rights Council" (UNHRC) for its systemic bias and discrimination against #Israel, and it's only getting worse.
According to leading historians, most of the 500-750,000 Palestinian refugees from 1948 fled to escape a war of destruction that Palestinian leaders & Arab states launched against #Israel. A small minority were expelled by Israeli forces or left because Arab forces told them to.
This refugee crisis (which Palestinians call the #Nakba) was followed by nearly 850,000 Jews fleeing or being expelled from Arab states. There is no comparison between these tragedies and the #Holocaust - an industrial-scale genocide in which the Nazis murdered 6 million Jews.
We take no position on the NYC Mayoral race, but strongly oppose efforts to intimidate leaders who take a stand against BDS, which is a campaign of hate.
The purpose of BDS is not to protest Israeli policies as some claim, but to isolate and pressure Israel until it collapses as a Jewish and democratic state. Furthermore, BDS actively harms peace efforts by opposing Israeli-Palestinian cooperation.
Many activists on Twitter have been falling all over themselves to defend Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour).
Here's a reminder of her record:
In 2011, she tweeted the grotesquely offensive statement below, which was especially disturbing because Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a survivor of female genital mutilation.
Sarsour has close ties to the Nation of Islam (NOI), a racist, #antisemitic & homophobic hate group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Sarsour pays NOI members to act as her security detail & embraces their hateful leader, @LouisFarrakhan.
#BREAKING: The Israel Institute for Biological Research and the Defense Ministry have announced a major breakthrough in finding an antidote for #coronavirus. The antibody attacks the virus and can neutralize it.
The Institute's researchers said in a statement that "the antibody development phase is over. A goal for international companies to produce the antibody in commercial quantities. #coronavirus
If successful, this development will change the world as we know it in the face of the #coronavirus pandemic.