Guess Who The Women’s March Co-President Was Hanging Out With This Weekend

I have multiple friends who have participated in Women’s March activities.

And you know what… fine. I don’t agree with it, and I think any positive messaging of women’s empowerment is lost in hypocritical attacks for women who do not share the “appropriate” political views and the willingness to paint an entire sex as victim to another.

BUT… that seems less important than stopping to realize who is really putting these marches together.

We’ve talked about Linda Sarsour at length…

But there’s also Tamika Mallory.

She TOO apparently condones anti-semitism…

If the leaders of the Women’s March want an intersectional movement that spreads across multiples areas of activism, then I want to see the leaders vocally denouncing anti-Semitism https://t.co/73jxxObr6w

— Emily Shire (@eshire) March 1, 2018

According to Fast Forward:

A co-president of the Women’s March movement attended a rally in Chicago on Sunday sponsored by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan — only the latest incident in which she has associated with the man whom the Anti-Defamation League calls “the lead­ing anti-Semite in Amer­ica.”

Tamika D. Mallory, one of four presidents of the Women’s March, attended the 2018 Saviours’ Day event at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, an annual event organized by the Nation of Islam. Mallory, the former executive director of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, received a personal shout-out from Farrakhan on the stage, and shared video and a photo from the event on her Instagram page.

She’s OBVIOUSLY proud to be there.

Farrakhan made multiple inflammatory comments during his three-hour speech. He claimed that “the powerful Jews are my enemy,” that “the Jews have control over agencies of those agencies of government” like the FBI, that Jews are “the mother and father of apartheid,” and that Jews are responsible for “degenerate behavior in Hollywood turning men into women and women into men.”

Farrakhan has been known to make anti-Semitic comments for decades, including calling Adolf Hitler “a very great man” and claiming that Jews were behind the 9/11 terror attacks.

Despite this, Mallory has on multiple occasions posted on her social media platforms about attending events with Farrakhan, posing for a photo with him in 2015 and sharing the stage with him on Saviours’ Day in 2016. “Thank God this man is still alive and doing well,” she wrote in one post.

Yup. Is there ANY clearer sign she condones his anti-semitic language?

She’s not simply excusing him… she’s CELEBRATING him!

It does not appear that Mallory has ever distanced herself from Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic language. Two other co-founders of the Women’s March, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez, have also praised and appeared at events with Farrakhan.

Mallory, who was briefly arrested on Tuesday while protesting about immigration in front of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office, did not respond to a request to comment. Neither did spokeswomen for the Women’s March.

Yeah… why would they? The entire left sweeps this under the rug for them anyway.

The Women’s March deputy head of communications, Sophie Ellman-Golan, who is Jewish, wrote in the Forward last August that she, Mallory, Sarsour and Perez “do not always agree on every single issue or feel the same way about every single individual. Sometimes we say things that cause each other pain. It is painful for me to engage when people like Louis Farrakhan perpetuate the same narrative of ‘satanic global Jewry’ that Nazis do….But we trust and respect each other — and we have faith in our shared dedication to justice and liberation.” She also told Refinery29 last month that she had had multiple conversations with members of the Women’s March team about anti-Semitism.

I honestly don’t know how this woman can stand for this. How much “respect” can they truly have for her? Seriously.

Anyway….

It is beyond hypocritical to stand on the sidelines at an event where Farrakhan says “the powerful Jews are my enemy” & “the Jews have control over agencies of those agencies of government” —let alone happily Instagram it

— Emily Shire (@eshire) March 1, 2018

We do not have to agree on everything. However, there’s a cruel irony in a modern feminist movement that demands a purity test of its followers but will not force its leaders to denounce such clear hate.

— Emily Shire (@eshire) March 1, 2018

Right…. So ANY woman who believes in the sanctity of life is immediately uninvited from the girls club.

Flaming anti-semitism, however, is totally Kosher.