Anti-Defamation League: In a speech Sunday, notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan claimed that Jews control the government and FBI, and use marijuana to feminize black men—with one @womensmarch organizer in attendance and another applauding from afar. adl.org/blog/farrakhan… 
There is a persistent unwillingness to acknowledge that two of the organizers of the @womensmarch are groupies of Louis Farrakhan, whose anti-Semitism and homophobia rivals Richard Spencer's. They're very open about it!
For reference, here is just a small sampling of the horrific things Farrakhan has said about Jews:
Read this thread. Then read it again. Opposing anti-Semitism and any other form of bigotry means opposing it across the board, whether the hate festers among your political opponents or allies. A lot of people have trouble doing this.
Read Anti-Defamation League director @JGreenblattADL on Louis Farrakhan—"quite possibly, the most popular anti-Semite in America"—and his high profile fans, from organizers of @womensmarch to sitting members of Congress. Don't look away. medium.com/@J0NATHAN_G/lo…
1. Jew asks @womensmarch co-chair why she supports American anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan
2. Anti-Semite replies "but Israel," as if that justifies Farrakhan's hate, then calls for Jesus to cast "wicked spirit" out of the Jew
3. Linda Sarsour interjects to defend … the anti-Semite
2. Anti-Semite replies "but Israel," as if that justifies Farrakhan's hate, then calls for Jesus to cast "wicked spirit" out of the Jew
3. Linda Sarsour interjects to defend … the anti-Semite
This is a bit of a long read for Twitter, but it's a pretty revealing one for how anti-Semitism can operate in "progressive" spaces.
Real talk:
"Don't praise, patronize, or take adulatory selfies with a guy who says Jews are the 'synagogue of Satan' and did 9/11" is the lowest of low bars.
If you can't manage it, don't pretend to care about anti-Semitism.
"Don't praise, patronize, or take adulatory selfies with a guy who says Jews are the 'synagogue of Satan' and did 9/11" is the lowest of low bars.
If you can't manage it, don't pretend to care about anti-Semitism.
*Jews wave flags with Jewish stars at leftist march*
"It's triggering and they must be kicked out."
*Women's March chairs take selfies w/ Farrakhan, attend speech where he says Jews are Satanic and use Hollywood to make people trans.*
"Pipe down, Jews. Here, have some nuance."
"It's triggering and they must be kicked out."
*Women's March chairs take selfies w/ Farrakhan, attend speech where he says Jews are Satanic and use Hollywood to make people trans.*
"Pipe down, Jews. Here, have some nuance."
Here's a crazy thought:
Maybe some people on the far-left just don't like Jews and use really transparent excuses to cover for it.
Maybe some people on the far-left just don't like Jews and use really transparent excuses to cover for it.
Characteristically incisive @schraubd on why Jews find the left's inability to universally condemn Farrakhan and his "progressive" fans so disturbing: most Jews identify as left and so the refusal is a reminder that they're only accepted if they keep quiet haaretz.com/opinion/.premi…
"Louis Farrakhan is so 'irrelevant' and 'inconsequential' that we attend his speeches, post obsequious selfies with him, and are absolutely terrified of straightforwardly condemning his anti-Semitism, homophobia, and racism."
Yeah, let's go with that.
Yeah, let's go with that.
Remember that pro-Farrakhan anti-Semite that Linda Sarsour jumped in to defend? Well, he kept on anti-Semiting.
Now he claims that all US Jews are de facto citizens of Israel and therefore responsible for it, I kid you not.
Now he claims that all US Jews are de facto citizens of Israel and therefore responsible for it, I kid you not.
Here's a handy tip: If your Twitter handle contains the words "Minister" and a cross emoji, it is almost never a good idea to start a tweet to a Jew with the words "Let me educate you about Jewish history."
Stay woke (except when it comes to anti-Semitism, in which case, hit the snooze button)
This is the second non-apology thread in which Mallory has said she opposes anti-Semitism, homophobia, and transphobia while studiously avoiding condemning Louis Farrakhan's, who she has praised repeatedly.
In 3 devastatingly simple paragraphs, @schraubd explains how the failure to condemn Farrakhan fiasco shows that the far-left has a much bigger anti-Semitism problem than it wants to admit. Read it twice. dsadevil.blogspot.com/2018/03/on-wom…
Short version: Some leftists claim to care about anti-Semitism in theory, but in practice dismiss all evidence of it on their side as merely "anti-Israel" criticism. Farrakhan's stuff isn't about Israel, so their failure to condemn it shows how empty their commitment really is.
.@lkherman gets it exactly right: those criticizing the anti-Semitic ties of the Women's March chairs aren't hurting the movement. They're showing that the movement is so much bigger than those chairs and can thrive without them and their baggage. refinery29.com/2018/03/192463…
Meanwhile, here is the president of @BernieSanders's @OurRevolution attaboying the Women's March chair for her article in which she refuses to condemn Farrakhan. Wonder what Bernie would think of this. (Note the very upset replies.)
Tamika Mallory and the Women's March organizers should try this one out the next time someone asks her why she still hasn't condemned and disassociated from Farrakhan.
Three Women's March organizers—@TamikaDMallory, @lsarsour, @msladyjustice1—have publicly praised and promoted Farrakhan to their social media followers. They've had nothing to say about this bile. Remember that the next time they claim to care about anti-Semitism.
Hold on to your hats for my contrarian opinion: Keeping Farrakhan on @Twitter is better than sweeping him under the rug. This way, people see his influence, what he tells his million followers, and who condemns his vile bigotry and who doesn't. It's very revealing on all counts.
For those interested in a more extended version of this argument, I wrote a while back about why Twitter was right to strip Farrakhan of his verification badge, while still leaving him on the platform: tabletmag.com/scroll/264486/…
Important FYI for those slamming Twitter for allowing Farrakhan's horrific hate: He posted the EXACT SAME "Jews are termites" video on @facebook, where it hasn't been taken down and is doing quite well. FB deserves just as much attention, if not more. facebook.com/OfficialMinist…
Facebook just took down that Farrakhan "Jews are termites" video, which he had posted on his Facebook page for his 1 million followers on the platform.
In the future, the worst job at Facebook is going to be the person who has to read and watch every Farrakhan post and video so that he can delete like every other one.
New York Times story on how Bill Clinton has too much baggage to campaign for Democrats today quotes ... unrepentant friend of Farrakhan Tamika Mallory, who is campaigning for Democrats today. A better party would have neither.
nytimes.com/2018/11/02/us/…
nytimes.com/2018/11/02/us/…
One would have thought that repeatedly praising and refusing to condemn a man who calls Jews "termites" and "Satanic" would disqualify someone from campaigning for Democrats, especially after Pittsburgh. One would apparently be wrong.
Teresa Shook, the Women's March founder who literally created its event page on Facebook, calls for the March organizers to step down over having "allowed anti-Semitism, anti-LBGTQIA sentiment and hateful, racist rhetoric to become a part of the platform": facebook.com/TeresaShookOff…
Other Women's March leaders are joining the co-founder's call for the organizers to step down over their Farrakhan problem:
Every time I add a tweet to this old thread, I get lots of shocked replies from people first discovering the Women's March organizers' connections to Farrakhan. We've gotten used to it, but it's really downright nuts that any self-styled progressives would be anywhere near him.
To those on the right chuckling about "the left eating itself": what they're actually doing is attempting to police their own and push bigotry out of their spaces, something the right manifestly failed to do in 2016. Maybe you should learn from them.
Imagine you took a selfie w/ David Duke, called him "greatest of all time," said he "speaks his truth," and then, when asked to denounce him, said you don't disavow people but oppose racism. That's the Women's March organizers on Farrakhan & no amount of apologetics improves it.
Another Women's March co-founder, Evvie Harmon, joined co-founder Teresa Shook in calling for its current organizers to resign over anti-Semitism. She says she witnessed two of them being anti-Semitic, and regrets to this day not speaking up at the time. facebook.com/evvie.harmon/p…
Among Tablet's Women's March investigation findings:
-Firsthand sources recount anti-Semitic statements from the co-chairs behind the scenes
-Multiple sources—and Linda Sarsour's own FB feed—confirm the chairs' used Farrakhan's Nation of Islam for security
tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an…
-Firsthand sources recount anti-Semitic statements from the co-chairs behind the scenes
-Multiple sources—and Linda Sarsour's own FB feed—confirm the chairs' used Farrakhan's Nation of Islam for security
tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an…
Evvie Harmon, Women's March co-founder, recalls two of the co-chairs, Tamika Mallory and Carmen Perez, "berating" fellow Women's March organizer Vanessa Wruble with anti-Semitic tropes: tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an…
Basically, this deep investigative report into the Women's March by @LeahMcSweeney & @Jacob__Siegel shows how the current co-chairs initiated a hostile takeover of the March from the movement's original grassroots founders and pushed them out. Read it all: tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an…
The Women's March co-chairs have gotten a lot of attention for their refusal to disavow Louis Farrakhan, but that's really a footnote to the real story of what happened to the March, which is this:
If there's one thing I've learned from covering as different and diverse subjects as Trump, Julia Salazar, and the Women's March chairs, it's to never underestimate the brazenness of aspirants to power. They always think they can get away with it, and they never do it just once.
A+ Twitter exchange, would read again
So you may have heard a PR firm claiming Tablet was going to correct our 10,000-word Women's March expose. Well, here are all 4 changes. They do not substantively change the piece, but they do strengthen it! (e.g. We understated how many local marches had already broken away.)
In other news, I would just like to register my disappointment that I myself did not receive any sketchy emails trying to get me to take down my tweets about the Women's March. Clearly, I need to do better.
