Sarsour’s book is filled with a mix of anecdotal stories from her life along with poorly sourced political observations.
In one instance, she proudly recounts how she threatened to dox a young Palestinian man because he was allegedly a spy for a law enforcement agency.
In another, she describes how she met fellow Women’s March organizers Tamika Mallory and Carmen Perez, describing them as the “unbreakable social justice Voltron.”
She recounts that no one actually introduced Mallory and Perez to her, but rather the three of them just always ended up being at the same protests. Their relationship was solidified in 2014, when they organized a march from New York to Washington, D.C. following the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
She evokes a lot of Martin Luther King, Jr./marching in Selma protest imagery, but doesn’t seem to see the disparity between her vivid imagination and the reality of her group of marchers spending one of their evenings in a mosque run by the Nation of Islam, an organization led by hate preacher Louis Farrakhan, who
calls Jews “satanic” and compares them to termites.
Sarsour describes Michael Brown’s death as a “noonday execution” and the reiterates a witness report of Brown having his hands up and yelling “don’t shoot.”
Yet the notes at the end of the book only cite one source for information on the events surrounding Brown’s death. It has long been known that the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative of those events was a
lie, yet she still uses this event to create her false narrative.
These false narratives run throughout her book. While serving as a surrogate for the Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign in 2015, she recounts that, unlike Sanders, other political candidates see Muslims as a political liability.
As proof, she cites Hillary Clinton returning $51,000 in contributions during her 2000 New York senate campaign from two Muslim groups. Yet, even the
The New York Timesarticle Sarsour cites as the source for this information notes that the two groups — American Muslim Alliance and the American Muslim Council — had problematic histories of anti-Semitism and openly praised the terrorist group Hamas.
Sarsour either never read the article she cited, or she sees no reason to bring up these inconvenient facts.
Sarsour has long been accused of being an anti-Semite herself. Her blatant support of the
anti-Semitic Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) movement, as well as other incendiary comments certainly point this way.
Yet, Sarsour deflects these accusations as nothing more than a defamation campaign against her. “I was anti-Semitic because I advocated for the human rights of Palestinians,” she writes.
This is laughable considering her history of engaging in bigotry against Jews. Here are just a few examples. In the past, Sarsour has
- Claimed “Israel is built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everyone else”
- Playfully joked with anti-Semitic, Hezbollah supporter, Abbas Hamideh about the Jewish people’s connection to Israel
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