This week, the City University of New York is scheduled to make a fateful mistake.

The school’s Graduate School of Public Health has invited the pro-Palestinian activist to serve as its commencement speaker.

The gesture is the latest marker of Sarsour’s rock star status in liberal circles, following her highly public role organizing the post-inauguration Women’s March protesting Donald Trump’s election.

But Sarsour is no star. This American child of Palestinian immigrants is one of the most visible voices supporting the BDS campaign.

BDS, by supporting the boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, violates the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism, which includes the application of standards to Israel that are expected of no other democracy in the world.

Sarsour also supports a so-called one-state solution, which is code for the elimination of the Jewish state, another of the State Department’s signs of contemporary anti-Semitism.

In recent months, she was called out for endorsing convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh as a speaker at a conference. Prior to that, she posted pictures of a Palestinian boy preparing to throw stones at Israeli police.

And she has one-sidedly blamed Israel for poor health care in the West Bank and Gaza, ignoring Israel’s care for the areas’ residents and the record of negligence and, at times, outright cruelty by leadership in the Palestinian Authority and Gaza.

She is not the right choice as a speaker in any public health forum.

Sarsour’s ascent as a supposed feminist activist provides cover for her hateful rhetoric and normalizes views that by rights should remain far out of the mainstream. Sharia law, of which Sarsour is a proponent, is certainly not compatible with any form of feminism.

By inviting Sarsour to perhaps the most important event on its calendar, CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health is legitimizing this hate and enabling the progress of a Trojan Horse in respectable society.

Her racism violates the civil rights of the Jewish people, including the students at the CUNY commencement.

Now is your chance to make a difference.

In less than sixty seconds, you can help by taking action.

Here is what you can do:

1. Write CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health at info@sph.cuny.edu.
2. Call CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health: 646-364-9600.

Here is a sample e-mail that you can use in whole or in part when contacting CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health:

E-mail subject line: URGENT response required

To Whom it may Concern,

This week, you are scheduled to make a fateful mistake. Your Graduate School of Public Health has invited the pro-Palestinian activist, Linda Sarsour, to serve as its commencement speaker. This American child of Palestinian immigrants is one of the most visible voices supporting the BDS campaign.

BDS, by supporting the boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, violates the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism, which includes the application of standards to Israel that are expected of no other democracy in the world. Sarsour also supports a so-called one-state solution, which is code for the elimination of the Jewish state, another of the State Department’s signs of contemporary anti-Semitism.

In recent months, she was called out for endorsing convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh as a speaker at a conference. Prior to that, she posted pictures of a Palestinian boy preparing to throw stones at Israeli police. She has one-sidedly blamed Israel for poor health care in the West Bank and Gaza, ignoring Israel’s care for the areas’ residents and the record of negligence and, at times, outright cruelty by leadership in the Palestinian Authority and Gaza.

She is definitely not the right choice as a speaker in any public health forum.

Sarsour’s ascent as a supposed feminist activist provides cover for her hateful rhetoric and normalizes views that by rights should remain far out of the mainstream. Sharia law, of which Sarsour is a proponent, is certainly not compatible with any form of feminism.

By inviting Sarsour to perhaps the most important event on its calendar, CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health is legitimizing this hate and enabling the progress of a Trojan Horse in respectable society.

Her racism violates the civil rights of the Jewish people, including the students at the CUNY commencement. In light of these facts, I would strongly urge CUNY’s administration to reconsider this invitation and to appoint an alternative speaker who would much better serve as an exemplary role-model for your graduating students. Not to do so would seriously & irreparably tarnish the reputation of CUNY.

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