Right-wingers attack Womens March co-organizer for posting link to help Harvey victims
Newsweek
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/right-wingers-attack-womens-march-co-organizer-for-posting-link-to-help-harvey-victims/
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Even by the hair-trigger standards of what’s considered offensive on social media, the tweet sent by activist Linda Sarsour on Monday evening was benign, a plea for her 231,000 followers to donate to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. The tweet included a link to a web page for the Hurricane Harvey Community Relief Fund.
Almost immediately, however, Sarsour became the target of attacks by political opponents who accused her of funneling relief money to a leftist political organization. The outrage spread from Twitter to conservative outlets like The Daily Caller and National Review, whose Alexandra DeSanctis branded Sarsour a heartless dissembler “unable to pass up any opportunity to make a quick buck.”
The criticism stems from the fact that the Hurricane Harvey Community Relief Fund is being administered by the Texas Organizing Project Education Fund, which is part of the Texas Organizing Project, a grassroots organization with a progressive mission. TOP was profiled in a recent Harper’s article about the growing liberal constituency in Texas, with Alexander Cockburn describing the group as engaging in “doorstep canvassing, intense research on policy and strategy, and mobilizing voter turnout among people customarily neglected by the powers that be.” Cockburn also noted that in the wake of Hurricane Ike, TOP helped rebuild housing in poorer parts of Houston.
The near-instant criticism of Sarsour is evidence of her growing status as a favorite target of the right. One of the co-organizers of the Women’s March on Washington, D.C., that followed the inauguration of President Trump, she is also a vociferous Arab-American activist who wears the hijab. Yet much like the president she so regularly criticizes, Sarsour can engender controversies of her own, as when she branded CNN’s Jake Tapper an ally of the “alt-right.”
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