page_title: Linda Sarsour
section_title: Stance on Israeli–Palestinian conflict
hierarchical_section_title: Linda Sarsour / Political activism / Stance on Israeli–Palestinian conflict
caption_attribution_description: Protest against Israel's Gaza Blockade and attack on humanitarian flotilla - Melbourne 5 June 2010. As the MV Rachel Corrie was being intercepted by Israeli commandos for running the Israeli blockade of Gaza, thousands of people were gathering in Sydney and Melbourne to protest Israel's attack on the flotilla of 6 ships carring humanitarian aid to Gaza that resulted in the death of 9 innocent volunteers. The protest heard from a spokeperson from the Turkish community, muslim leaders, Greens MLC Colleen Hartland, President of the Victorian Trades Hall Council Kevin Bracken, and representatives from FAMSY and Australia Asia worker Links.
context_page_description: Linda Sarsour is an American political activist. She was co-chair of the 2017 Women's March, the 2017 Day Without a Woman, and the 2019 Women's March. She is also a former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York. She and her Women's March co-chairs were profiled in Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" in 2017. Sarsour is a Muslim of Palestinian descent.
  Sarsour first gained attention for protesting police surveillance of American Muslims, later becoming involved in other civil rights issues such as police brutality, feminism, immigration policy, and mass incarceration. She has also organized Black Lives Matter demonstrations and was the lead plaintiff in a suit challenging the legality of the Trump travel ban.
  Her political activism has been praised by some liberals and progressives, while her stance and remarks on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have been criticized by some conservatives and Jewish leaders and organizations. Sarsour has advocated for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories and expressed criticism of Zionism and support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against Israel.
context_section_description: Haaretz has called Sarsour one of the most widely known Palestinian American women for her advocacy on behalf of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories and her criticisms of the Israeli government and Zionism. She has said she supports a one-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict but believes in Israel's right to exist and does not support either Hamas or the Palestinian Authority. She has dismissed smears circulated on social media and conservative websites that she has ties to Hamas, calling them "fake news". Sarsour has said members of her extended family in the Israeli-occupied territories have been arrested and jailed on accusations of supporting Hamas, but denied having contact with any radical Muslim groups. She has said she would like Israelis and Palestinians to coexist peacefully and justly. According to the Brooklyn Eagle, Sarsour's support for the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish, her view that Israel has a right to exist, and her relationship with Bill de Blasio have garnered her criticism from some Islamists.
  Sarsour told Haaretz that she is and always will be a critic of Israel and fully supports BDS. Sunaina Maira has described Sarsour's advocacy for BDS as an element of her feminist politics. In a March 2017 interview with The Nation, Sarsour opined that those who support and do not criticize the state of Israel cannot be part of the feminist movement; she believes such people ignore the rights of Palestinian women.
caption: Sarsour's advocacy for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel has provoked criticism.
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