“When we learned last week that a Muslim speaker, Linda Sarsour, at an event our recruiting team was sponsoring at Harvard University had a history of anti-Semitic comments, we immediately stepped away from the conference, cancelled our in-person recruiting meeting, and withdrew two speakers from the program,” McKinsey & Company said on Monday in a statement. “We condemn anti-Semitism in all its forms and stand for inclusion and tolerance elsewhere.”
Algemeiner Linda Sarsour has supported Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and once said Israel “was built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everybody else.”
McKinsey’s statement followed Jewish Insider’s reporting that Linda Sarsour, who has supported Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and once said Israel “was built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everybody else,” was the keynote speaker at the conference.
During her speech at the event Sarsour declared that she is “not afraid of Zionists in America” and maintained that only she is “going to tell you the truth,” according to Jewish Insider.
In 2020, Joe Biden’s campaign said it “obviously condemns [Sarsour’s] views and opposes BDS [boycott, divestment, and sanctions].”
Sarsour’s prolific anti-Semitic/anti-America views have been well-documented:
Befriending admitted terrorists 1, Calling for a forced vaginectomy of a prominent 3rd world womens rights activist 2, Defending Saudi Arabia 3, Denying Israels right to exist 4, Failing to deliver 100k she raised for Jewish cometary 5, Getting randomly antisemitic at a rally in support of Former 49ers Quarterback and national anthem kneeler Colin Kaepernick 6, Going on other antisemitic rants 7, Branding Jake Tapper, who’s as Jewish as he is liberal, an islamphobic member of alt right 8, Conflating feminism and zionism somehow 9, Telling Muslims not to assimilate 10, Calling for a jihad against America 11, Accusing everyone who ever criticized her or any other muslim of “islamophobia” 12.
Last April, Geico, an insurance company, cancelled a diversity event that it invited Sarsour to attend. Geico later apologized, saying it “does not condone hatred of any kind, and we do not stand for or with anyone who does.”
The Arab Conference at Harvard is purportedly the largest such event in North America, according to a website created by its organizers. It was this year attended by 20,000 virtual guests and 1,300 other students and academics. The Arab Conference website also lists the Harvard Officer for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and Belonging and the Harvard Medical School Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs as sponsors of the event.
In Oct., Mohammed el-Kurd, a controversial Palestinian activist who has been accused of “blatant” antisemitism by campus Jewish groups, was invited to campus by the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC), and in April, The Harvard Crimson, the university’s flagship daily, endorsed BDS, the first time such an action was taken in its entire history. Earlier that school year, PSC erected an ‘apartheid wall‘ in between two residence halls for freshman. In January, the university offered a position at the Kennedy School of Government to Israel Critic Ken Roth, reversing its prevision decision not to employ him.
The issue with anti-Israel and anti-Semitic bias on college campuses is very real and very troubling,” former Harvard University president and US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers told The Algemeiner last June. “I wish that university leaders were quicker to condemn problematic episodes of antisemitism in the same way they condemn other racist speech and acts.”
ME Infidel says
“Sarsour is a total fraud and a complete idiot”. Don’t have to comment further.
Hartmut says
The best Mckinsey could do.