September 28, 2019

“Zahra Billoo, who was voted off the board of the Women’s March just days after joining the team, embodies what it means to challenge all systems of violence – fighting the patriarchy, resisting Islamophobia, and supporting Jewish people like me in a time of rising bigotry against Jewish people and all vulnerable populations” says Liz Jackson, senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal.

 

Right-wing critics have relentlessly smeared Zahra for daring to include Palestinians in her vision of justice. An army of trolls attacked her as anti-Jewish for naming Israel as an apartheid state that maintains a system of laws privileging the rights of Jewish people over Palestinians.

Jackson continues, “Rather than cut her out, the Women’s March needs to take a long hard look at Zahra’s example of principled insistence that justice is not for some of us – but for all of us. Because white supremacists are coming for all of us – Jewish, Muslim, Black, Brown, Asian, LGBTQ – and we have to defend each other.”

Read the full story: Palestine Legal.