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JI7

(89,252 posts)
Mon Jun 12, 2017, 02:07 AM Jun 2017

Rock Siren Courtney Love Blasts Antisemitic BDS Activist Linda Sarsour Over Fundraising Campaign

Linda Sarsour is wrong about Courtney Love. Courtney Love hates Trump and she supported Hillary . but she is calling out the BDS movement which IS anti semitic.


<The outspoken Palestinian-American BDS activist Linda Sarsour has attracted the ire of rock singer and actress Courtney Love in a furious Twitter exchange.

Love — the flamboyant lead singer of rock band Hole and former wife of Kurt Cobain, the late Nirvana frontman — was enraged by Sarsour’s fundraising campaign for Rahma Warsame, a Columbus, Ohio woman of Somali origin alleged to have been the victim of a violent hate crime last Saturday night.

Columbus police have since clarified that there was no evidence that the altercation that Warsame became involved in — which reportedly began after a neighbor spotted her hitting a young boy with a shoe — was a hate crime. Nonetheless, Sarsour is trying to raise $100,000 to promote her case.

This irked Love, who told Sarsour on Twitter, “You’re a vile disgrace to women and all mankind.” She then accused Sarsour of “collecting funds on a made up hate crime.”

Love shared a screenshot of a statement from the Columbus Public Information Office confirming that the incident was not being investigated as a hate crime. She accused Sarsour of engaging in “mudslinging” even after the statement had been made public. “You’re an anti-semite anti-American fraud,” Love declared.>

https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/06/08/rock-siren-courtney-love-blasts-antisemitic-bds-activist-linda-sarsour-over-fundraising-campaign/

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Rock Siren Courtney Love Blasts Antisemitic BDS Activist Linda Sarsour Over Fundraising Campaign (Original Post) JI7 Jun 2017 OP
Weekend Brawl Has Columbus Neighborhood On Edge Amid Hate Crime Concerns ck4829 Jun 2017 #1
I had an issue with her being in charge of the Women's March obamanut2012 Jun 2017 #2
What's "BDS"? (Never mind. I Googled it.) (n/t) Iggo Jun 2017 #3
I love how being "the former wife" of someone is note-worthy. n/t Fix The Stupid Jun 2017 #4
I saw that twitter battle last week leftynyc Jun 2017 #5

ck4829

(35,077 posts)
1. Weekend Brawl Has Columbus Neighborhood On Edge Amid Hate Crime Concerns
Mon Jun 12, 2017, 06:09 AM
Jun 2017

A fight at an apartment complex in Columbus, Ohio, late Saturday left a Somali-American woman hospitalized, a neighbor facing eviction and police looking for answers.

Columbus police on Monday released information about the brawl, which was allegedly marked by racist threats, in an effort to dispel “rumors and speculation” circulating on social media, they said.

The incident comes amid heightened tensions over hate crimes against racial and religious minorities ― most recently from the mass transit stabbing in Portland, Oregon, in which a white supremacist who was berating a black girl and a Muslim girl fatally stabbed two men who tried to intervene.

Columbus police have not made arrests “due to the lack of physical evidence and conflicting stories by all parties at the scene.” They said they were unable to determine “who the primary aggressor was” in Saturday’s incident, but said there is no evidence to suggest it was a hate crime.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/somali-woman-beaten-columbus-ohio_us_5935e10be4b0cfcda916fe49

The police don't believer either side of this story; it being a hate crime or a child being beaten (Or the other party saying they were assaulted by 4 or 5 Somali men). I wonder what algemeiner.com's agenda here is. Division? I've seen Sarsour and I've seen Love. I think they both need to wake up to what's going on... and so do we.

obamanut2012

(26,080 posts)
2. I had an issue with her being in charge of the Women's March
Mon Jun 12, 2017, 01:00 PM
Jun 2017

Because she was so very, very anti Hillary during the primaries and the campaign -- enough so I'm betting she didn't vote for HRC.

I do not, however, think BDS is anti-semitic, but I also get why some folks -- wrongly imo -- think it is.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
5. I saw that twitter battle last week
Mon Jun 12, 2017, 01:14 PM
Jun 2017

Love is correct - sansour is a twit who thinks you can't be a Zionist and a feminist. Fuck her.

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