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Sarsour worked to have [[Muslim holidays]] recognized in New York City's public schools, which in 2015 started observing [[Eid al-Adha]] and [[Eid al-Fitr]].{{refn|name=Chandler}}<ref name="Botelho">{{cite news |last1=Botelho |first1=Greg |title=New York public schools to have Muslim holidays off |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/04/us/new-york-muslim-school-holidays/index.html |publisher=CNN |date=March 4, 2015}}</ref>
Sarsour worked to have [[Muslim holidays]] recognized in New York City's public schools, which in 2015 started observing [[Eid al-Adha]] and [[Eid al-Fitr]].{{refn|name=Chandler}}<ref name="Botelho">{{cite news |last1=Botelho |first1=Greg |title=New York public schools to have Muslim holidays off |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/04/us/new-york-muslim-school-holidays/index.html |publisher=CNN |date=March 4, 2015}}</ref>

In the wake of the [[2015 San Bernardino attack]], President Obama called for Muslims to take responsibility and "root out misguided ideas that lead to radicalization".<ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/06/politics/transcript-obama-san-bernardino-isis-address/index.html Transcript: President Obama's address to the nation on the San Bernardino terror attack and the war on ISIS], CNN, 7 December 2015</ref> Sarsour objected to Obama's singling out Muslims, saying, "We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups" and noted that many domestic terrorist plots had already been foiled because Muslims reported them to authorities.<ref name="NPR201512"/><ref>[https://mic.com/articles/130105/10-actual-facts-about-muslims-you-ll-never-hear-from-donald-trump-s-mouth#.79NAosVc2 10 Actual Facts About Muslims You'll Never Hear From Donald Trump's Mouth], Mic, Marie Solis, 10 December 2015</ref>{{Undue weight inline|Sound bytes|date=September 2017}}


In 2007 Sarsour appeared in ''The Hijabi Monologues'', a performance art piece based on stories about [[veil]]ing.<ref name="Amer2014">{{cite book|author=Sahar Amer|title=What is Veiling?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2T8kDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT228|date=September 9, 2014|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-9684-0|page=228}}</ref> In 2011 she participated in the [[Women's Media Center|Women's Media Center's]] Progressive Women's Voices Media and Leadership Training Program.{{refn|name=Mishkin}}
In 2007 Sarsour appeared in ''The Hijabi Monologues'', a performance art piece based on stories about [[veil]]ing.<ref name="Amer2014">{{cite book|author=Sahar Amer|title=What is Veiling?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2T8kDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT228|date=September 9, 2014|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-9684-0|page=228}}</ref> In 2011 she participated in the [[Women's Media Center|Women's Media Center's]] Progressive Women's Voices Media and Leadership Training Program.{{refn|name=Mishkin}}

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Linda Sarsour
Linda Sarsour speaking at a panel discussion
Sarsour in May 2016
Born1980
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materKingsborough Community College
Brooklyn College
Occupation(s)Activist, writer
Known forCo-chair of the 2017 Women's March

Linda Sarsour (born 1980)[1] is a Palestinian-American political activist and former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York. She was one of the organizers of the 2017 Women's March.

Personal life

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sarsour is the oldest of seven children of Palestinian immigrants.[2] She was raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and went to John Jay High School in Park Slope. Sarsour was married in an arranged marriage at the age of 17 and had three children by her mid-20s.[1][3][4] Both Sarsour's family and her husband are from the Palestinian city of Al-Bireh.[5]

After high school, she took courses at Kingsborough Community College and Brooklyn College with the goal of becoming an English teacher.[6] As of 2011 Sarsour lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.[2]

Political activism career

Arab American Association of New York

Sarsour's early activism included defending the civil rights of Muslim Americans following the September 11 attacks of 2001.[4][7] Shortly before the attacks, Sarsour was asked by Basemah Atweh, a cousin of hers and the founder of the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY), to volunteer for the organization. Atweh, a Palestinian single mother who lived alone and went without the traditional head covering (hijab), became her mentor.[1][2][6]

When Sarsour and Atweh were returning from the 2005 gala opening of the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, their car was struck by a tractor-trailer. Atweh died of her injuries, and two other passengers had broken bones. Sarsour, who was driving, was not seriously injured.[1][6] She returned to work immediately, saying she felt compelled to pursue Atweh’s legacy: "This is where she wanted me to be".[1] She was soon named, at age 25, to succeed Atweh as executive director of the association. Over the next several years she expanded the scope of the organization, building its budget from $50,000 to $700,000 annually.[1][6]

Sarsour has gained attention for protesting the police surveillance of Muslim Americans.[4][7][8] As AAANY director, she advocated for passage of the Community Safety Act in New York, which created an independent office to review police policy and expanded the definition of bias-based profiling in New York. She and the organization pressed for the law after instances of what they saw as biased policing in local neighborhoods, and it passed over the objections of the city's mayor and police chief.[6]

Sarsour became a regular attendee at Black Lives Matter demonstrations as well as a frequent television commentator on feminism.[7] According to Eli Rosenberg of the New York Times, Sarsour "has tackled issues like immigration policy, mass incarceration, stop-and-frisk and the New York Police Department’s spying operation on Muslims — all of which have largely inured her to hate-tinged criticism."[9]

Sarsour's activism has drawn praise from liberal politicians and activists.[3] In 2012, during the presidency of Barack Obama, the White House recognized Sarsour as a "champion of change".[4][7] After President Donald Trump took office, the White House removed the mention of Sarsour from its website.[7]

In September 2014, Sarsour and a co-worker were accosted at the entrance to their office by Brian Boshell, who was sleeping there.[10] Boshell said, "you are cutting people's heads off ... I'm going to cut off your head and see how your people will feel", then threw a trash can at Sarsour. A mentally ill homeless white man widely known in the Bay Ridge area for incoherent outbursts and harassing neighborhood residents, Boshell was arrested and charged with attempted assault and menacing as hate crimes.[10][11][12][13][14][15][excessive citations] He pleaded guilty and, with Sarsour's agreement, was sentenced to probation and a residential drug and alcohol treatment program.[16][17]

Sarsour worked to have Muslim holidays recognized in New York City's public schools, which in 2015 started observing Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr.[4][18]

In the wake of the 2015 San Bernardino attack, President Obama called for Muslims to take responsibility and "root out misguided ideas that lead to radicalization".[19] Sarsour objected to Obama's singling out Muslims, saying, "We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups" and noted that many domestic terrorist plots had already been foiled because Muslims reported them to authorities.[20][21][undue weight? – discuss]

In 2007 Sarsour appeared in The Hijabi Monologues, a performance art piece based on stories about veiling.[22] In 2011 she participated in the Women's Media Center's Progressive Women's Voices Media and Leadership Training Program.[2]

Black Lives Matter

Following the shooting of Michael Brown, Sarsour helped organized the Muslim community response and the wider Black Lives Matter protests. Sarsour helped form "Muslims for Ferguson", and traveled with other activists to Ferguson in 2014.[6][23] She has continued to work extensively with BLM since.[4][20]

Democratic Party involvement

In 2016 Sarsour ran for a position as a County Committee member with the Democratic Party of Kings County, New York.[24] She placed third in that election.[25]

Sarsour spoke as a surrogate for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders during the 2016 presidential campaign.[3] According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, "Detractors often focus in on Sarsour's frequent criticism of Israel's policies in the occupied territories [...] Ironically, Sarsour’s acknowledgment that Israel has a right to exist, her support of a Jewish man, Bernie Sanders, for president and her relationships with politicians like Mayor Bill de Blasio have earned her criticism by some Islamists as a self-aggrandizing 'house Arab'".[26]

2017 Women's March and later activism

Teresa Shook and Bob Bland recruited Sarsour to be a co-chair of the 2017 Women's March, held the day after the Inauguration of Donald Trump as President.[27] According to the Washington Post, Sarsour's leadership role "brought with it an onslaught of personal attacks through social media and conservative news outlets. Her critics have attempted to tie her to terrorist groups, called her anti-Semitic and accused her of infiltrating the liberal movement".[4] Following the march, Sarsour was targeted with false reports that she supported the militant Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and advocated imposing Islamic law in the United States. Sarsour said that as a result she had started taking extra safety precautions for herself and her children.[7]

Following the Women's March, Sarsour, along with three other co-organizers, was named as one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People",[3][28] has spoken of the importance of her former organization in building a progressive movement in the United States.[29][not specific enough to verify]

Sarsour has been active in opposing the Trump Administration's ban on travelers from several Muslim-majority countries; she was named lead plaintiff in a legal challenge brought by the Council on American–Islamic Relations.[4] In Sarsour v. Trump, the plaintiffs argued that the travel ban existed only to keep Muslims out of the United States.[30]

After a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri was vandalized in an apparent anti-Semitic incident in February 2017, Sarsour worked with other Muslim activists to launch a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to repair the damage and restore the gravesites. More than $125,000 was raised, and Sarsour pledged to donate any funds not needed at the cemetery to other Jewish community centers or sites targeted by vandalism. She said the fundraising effort would "send a united message from the Jewish and Muslim communities that there is no place for this type of hate, desecration, and violence in America".[31][32] St. Louis's United Hebrew Congregation Senior Rabbi, Brigitte S. Rosenberg, whose congregants have family members buried in the vandalized cemetery, called the campaign "a beautiful gesture".[33] The project generated some controversy as the funds were not distributed as quickly as some had expected.[34][35]

Sarsour was a co-chairwoman of the 2017 Day Without a Woman strike and protest, organized to mark International Women's Day. During a demonstration outside Trump International Hotel and Tower in Manhattan, she was arrested along with other leaders of the January Women's March, including Bland, Tamika Mallory, and Carmen Perez.[36][37]

When questioned at a Dartmouth College student event about a 2011 tweet referencing Somali-born activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Brigitte Gabriel, leader of the lobbying group ACT! for America, Sarsour objected that the questioner was a white man speaking at an event honoring Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.[38] Ali had called Sarsour a "fake feminist" and a "defender of sharia law" for a 2011 tweet in which Sarsour wrote, "I wish I could take their vaginas away", referring to Ali and Gabriel.[4][39] The tweet, which was later deleted, was nevertheless circulated afterward by Sarsour's critics to prove her allegedly intolerant views.[38] Sarsour defended the tweet, citing her record of activism. The exchange was circulated on social media and by conservative media outlets.[38] New York Times columnist Bari Weiss criticized Sarsour for holding what she called "disturbing views" that Weiss alleged "made common cause with anti-feminists".[40][41][42]

The Dartmouth College exchange may have boosted criticism of the choice of Sarsour to deliver a graduation address at the City University of New York (CUNY) in June 2017.[38] Critics also pointed to her support for the BDS movement.[43][44] Debates about Sarsour's appearance began with Dov Hikind, a state assemblyman in New York, who sent Governor Andrew Cuomo a letter objecting to the choice of Sarsour as commencement speaker, signed by 100 Holocaust survivors.[9][43][45] Hikind criticized Sarsour's previous appearance in Chicago with Rasmea Odeh, who was convicted by an Israeli court for taking part in a bombing that killed two civilians in 1969.[9]

Sarsour maintained that she had nothing to apologize for, saying that questions existed about the integrity of Odeh's conviction, that her beliefs had been misrepresented, and that criticism of Israeli policies was being conflated with anti-Semitism. She ascribed the critical reaction to her speech to her prominent role as an organizer for the 2017 Women's March. The university chancellor, the dean of the college, and a group of professors defended her right to speak, as did some Jewish groups,[9][43] including Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.[46] Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Jewish civil-rights group the Anti-Defamation League, defended Sarsour's First Amendment right to speak despite opposing her views on Israel.[47][48] A rally in support of Sarsour took place in front of New York's City Hall. Constitutional scholar Fred Smith Jr. tied the controversy to broader disputes over freedom of speech in America.[9]

At an an address to a convention of the Islamic Society of North America in May 2017, Sarsour recounted a story from Islamic scripture in which a person asks "What is the best form of jihad or struggle?" The answer, according to Sarsour, was "a word of truth in front of a tyrant ruler or leader".[49][50] Speaking of the need for Muslim Americans to defend themselves against anti-Muslim policies from the Trump administration, Sarsour said:

I hope that we when we stand up to those who oppress our communities that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad, that we are struggling against tyrants and rulers not only abroad in the Middle East or on the other side of the world, but here in these United States of America where you have fascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes reigning in the White House.[50][51]

Sarsour's use of the word jihad was interpreted by several conservative media outlets and personalities as a call for violence against the president. Sarsour rejected that interpretation, citing her commitment to nonviolent activism. Some of her defenders commented that the controversy showed the need for a greater understanding of Islam in the United States.[50][52]

In July 2017, Sarsour published a tweet linking CNN journalist Jake Tapper to the alt-right. Bustle politics editor Emily Shire, writing in The Daily Beast, called the tweet "an attempt to slander Tapper".[53] Tapper had originally criticized a tweet from the Women's March account in honor of former Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur, who was convicted of murder in 1979 for aiding and abetting the 1973 killing of a New Jersey state trooper by an escaped prisoner, and was added to the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists in 2013.[53][undue weight? – discuss]

In August 2017 Sarsour spoke at the "United we Stand" rally in front of NFL headquarters in New York in support of Colin Kaepernick, who has remained unsigned by any NFL team after kneeling during the national anthem during the 2016-17 season. Sarsour laid out the protesters' demands, which included signing Kaepernick by the beginning of the season, protecting players from retributions should they protest, sensitivity training, and NFL investment in black and brown communities. Sarsour also asked protesters to call and tweet at Verizon, an NFL sponsor.[54][55] Kaepernick thanked Sarsour and fellow Women's March organizers for their support.[56]

In September 2017 Sarsour was listed in the Politico 50 annual list for emerging "as the face of the resistance to Donald Trump".[57]

Views on Israel–Palestine conflict

Sarsour has voiced support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel,[58] a campaign some view as anti-Semitic, which has led to criticism from American conservatives as well as leaders of the Anti-Defamation League.[3][38][43] Sarsour has stated that Israel has the right to exist, wishes to see Israelis and Palestinians coexist as part of a One-state solution, and does not support either Hamas or the Palestinian Authority.[2][38]

Sarsour has stated that members of her extended family have been arrested on accusations of supporting Hamas, but said they were not necessarily charged with crimes and that their situation was "just the reality of Palestinians living under military occupation".[2][7]

According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, "Soon after the Women’s March, [Sarsour] drew fire from Jewish leaders" for saying that support for Israel was incompatible with feminism.[3] In an interview with The Nation, she said,

I would say that anyone who wants to call themselves an activist cannot be selective. There is no country in this world that is immune to violating human rights. You can't be a feminist in the United States and stand up for the rights of the American woman and then say that you don't want to stand up for the rights of Palestinian women in Palestine. It's all connected.[59]

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