by Katelyn Caralle, January 18, 2019

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is breaking with the Women’s March after its leader refused to denounce anti-Semitic remarks by Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan.

“Today, sadly, I must walk away from the national Women’s March organization, and specifically its leadership,” the Florida congresswoman wrote in a USA Today op-ed Friday. “While I still firmly believe in its values and mission, I cannot associate with the national march’s leaders and principles, which refuse to completely repudiate anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry.”

The Women's March debuted in 2017 as a protest of Donald Trump’s election and inauguration as president.

The congresswoman, who also served as Democratic National Committee chairwoman from 2011-16, said that she could not comfortably walk beside leaders who are ”outspoken peddlers of hate.”

Instead, Wasserman Schultz says she will participate in local marches independent of the Women’s March leadership, including co-president Tamika Mallory.

In an interview on “The View” Monday, Mallory refused to denounce anti-Jewish statements by Farrakhan. The Nation of Islam leader, for instance, in a May 2018 sermon, said, “Satanic Jews have infected the whole world with poison and deceit.” And in a 2015 "Saviour's Day Speech," Farrakhan said, “It is now becoming apparent that there were many Israelis and Zionist Jews in key roles in the 9/11 attacks. Israelis had foreknowledge of the attacks ... We know that many Jews received a text message not to come to work on Sept. 11.”

Mallory, rather than denouncing Farrakhan, in an online post called him the “GOAT,” or “greatest of all time.” Mallory said she was referring to Farrakhan's positive work for black communities, rather than his rhetoric.

But when asked if she condemned his anti-Semitic remarks, Mallory replied only that it’s “not my language, it’s not the way that I speak.”

In her op-ed, Wasserman Schultz cited a willingness to look the other way at anti-Semitic remarks by Mallory and other Women's March co-leaders, Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour.

“Since that first march, I witnessed a disturbing spike in hatred aimed at Jewish homes, schools and synagogues in my own community," the congresswoman wrote. "And with anti-Semitism and white nationalism apparently on the upswing in America and globally, the associations that Sarsour, Perez and Mallory have had with Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Louis Farrakhan have been most troubling.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...o-anti-semitism

Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #3

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Gotta love it when identity politics comes back to bite radical progressives in the *ss.

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