On Monday, the Women’s March voted off its board Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, and Bob Bland due to the anti-Semitism controversies surrounding them.
The organization announced 16 new members to the board. I noted in my Monday blog that Zahra Billoo could cause problems for them due to her past statements on Israel, the FBI, and the IDF. She once called herself “a proud anti-Zionist.”
I was correct. Billoo tweeted early this morning the Women’s March booted her off its board.
Billoo works as “a civil rights attorney and executive director of the San Francisco Bay area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.”
Look at these tweets. Billoo blames her dismissal on an Islamophobic smear campaign.
Oh, sweet summer child. No.
We merely pointed out your past statements. The Reagan Battalion tweeted out as many as they could find. These included Billoo saying “the Israeli Defense Forces, or the IDF, are no better than ISIS. They are both genocidal terrorist organizations.”
At least she condemned ISIS? Nah, not good enough.
Back in 2014, she proudly declared she “will not jihad, khilafah or sharia.”
Billoo told one person she does not think one can “be Zionist and nice.”
It gets better. Billoo wrote that “racist Zionists who support Apartheid Israel” scares her more than “the mentally ill young people the #FBI recruits to join ISIS.”
Yes, not only is she afraid of those racist Jews, but she claimed the FBI recruits mentally ill young people to join ISIS.
National Review reported that Billoo stated on Facebook in 2017 that she would not see Wonder Woman because it stars Gal Gadot. The actress once served in the IDF. Of course, Billoo added that she would also never “see a movie in which the lead actress was proud of being a member of ISIS, al-Qaeda, or the U.S. military.”
Because the IDF and U.S. military are totes the same as al-Qaeda and ISIS.
Billoo does not believe Israel has a right to exist. She compares American Jews who move to Israel and join the IDF to those in ISIS. She shames Muslims who do not share her views.
The articles about Billoo had nothing to do with her religion. It had everything to do with the fact that she mirrors Sarsour, Mallory, and Bland.
The Women’s March wants to distance itself from the racism that swells within it. I want to know why they did not vet Billoo. How did these tweets and statements escape them?
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