Monday, November 20, 2017
Elder of Ziyon
It’s terrible. Every morning Linda Sarsour wakes up – and
because she has apparently set Google alerts for her name, she wakes up to “a
new headline, a new google alert.” She finds
it “exhausting,” “so damn exhausting.” Maybe cancel the Google alerts? Or maybe
grow up and accept that newspapers have op-eds and that not every op-ed writer
falls for your hypocrisy and bigotry???
But here’s the good news, dear Linda Sarsour: in the past
few days, three sort of well-known guys came to your defense. Among those
heroes was your fellow-Israel-hater – and award-winning
antisemite – Max Blumenthal, who happily joined
so many of your wonderful fans in denigrating the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt,
who had the temerity to doubt your absolutely FABULOUS credentials as an antisemitism
expert. After all, the expertise you get from learning by doing is unbeatable,
isn’t it…
And of course you love
it when your fans strike back and tell Greenblatt that compared to you, he
and his organization are just utterly clueless about antisemitism. I mean, the
ADL has been fighting antisemitism, racism and bigotry for a century, but
really, that means absolutely nothing, nothing at all if they can’t see that
there’s no antisemitism expert as brilliant as you are, right?
Indeed, we should all remember that you never really liked
the ADL. For example, you had a big problem
with the ADL’s campaign against Hamas back in the summer of 2014; indeed, you condemned the ADL for “inciting hate here in
the US” with this campaign. Absolutely right – why oh why should anyone hate
Hamas???
And naturally, dear Linda Sarsour, you were appalled [archived version doesn’t have link] when the
ADL’s Abraham Foxman condemned
the kidnapping and murder of three teenaged Israeli students by Hamas
terrorists: “The ADL should be the PDL (Pro Defamation League) - defaming
Palestinians. Shame. Shame.”
Well, dear Linda Sarsour, there’s no doubt that Hamas
fan Max Blumenthal fully agrees with you on all these issues.
But let’s have a quick look at the other two heroes who came
to your defense. Admittedly, David Duke was a bit lukewarm, comparing
you to a broken clock that is right twice a day…
But hey, I think David Duke and you could find a lot of
common ground when it comes to the ADL – he would surely LOVE your witticism about
the “Pro Defamation League” given that the ADL has described
him as “perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite”…
And let’s not forget that alt-rightist Richard Spencer also
came to your defense – indeed, given your complaints about how exhausting you
find it to get criticism, you’ll surely appreciate his thoughts
about why you are so terribly unfairly criticized.
Mea culpa, mea culpa is all I can say: I’m afraid I was the
first one to highlight
this tweet of yours, along with a whole lot of similar ones…
But in any case, there can be little doubt that also Richard
Spencer would just LOVE your “Pro Defamation League” quip – can you imagine
that the evil ADL has accused him of trying “to mainstream racism and
anti-Semitism”???
You see, the ADL isn’t just defaming Palestinians – they’re
also defaming the likes of David Duke and Richard Spencer, and of course, worst
of all, they’re defaming you, dear Linda Sarsour!!! But isn’t it a consolation
that you are in such great company???
