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Monday the Women’s March announced it was cutting ties with three of its four co-chairs: Linda Sarsour, Bob Bland, and Tamika Mallory. No specific reason was given but if you’ve followed this story, you know the issue was allegations of anti-Semitism. At the same time, the group announced it was adding a bunch of new people to the board including Zahra Billoo, executive director of the San Francisco chapter of CAIR. ......Earlier today, just three days after her appointment to the board was announced, Women’s March said Billoo had been removed from the board effective immediately:...Which statements? And how were they incompatible? Women’s March doesn’t say, but once again, the unspoken issue is anti-Semitism. Tuesday, Forward published a piece titled “The Women’s March Finally Dumped Linda Sarsour – And Replaced Her With Someone Worse.†That piece highlighted several of Billoo’s past tweets about Israel which seem pretty far over the line of legitimate criticism, especially this one from 2012:QuoteZahra Billoo@ZahraBilloo Apartheid Israel kills children as a hobby.
Zahra Billoo@ZahraBilloo Apartheid Israel kills children as a hobby.
Linda Sarsour is exactly what she's always been. I don't know how they're just now discovering this.