JEWISH JOURNAL
OMG, Just Shut Up: An Open Letter to Linda Sarsour
by Ariel Sobel
July 11, 2019

Dear Linda Sarsour: This is an appeal to you on behalf of the Jewish community for you to stop speaking for us, about us or to us. I know you’ve ignored these requests before.  You laughed off more than 21,000 Jews who signed a petition for you not to speak on a panel called “Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice” because you are neither Jewish nor a scholar on anti-Semitism. Declaring you know better about hatred of Jews than actual Jews is — you guessed it — anti-Semitic. It also is belittling and disrespectful. READ MORE