Fresh from bullying Starbucks into dropping the ADL from their anti-bias training (shame on Starbucks – please boycott them!), Women’s March co-founder Tamika Mallory is now in Israel. But she is calling it Palestine, and she is clearly here to spread her hatred of the Jewish people.
(as an aside, I am sure she is not troubled about this)
Warren said in an email that the trip would last about a week, and had over a dozen participants. Among the other local groups that participants have met or will meet with include the Palestinian NGOs Al Haq and Addameer and the Israeli human rights groups Yesh Din and Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights In Israel. None of these groups are known to be very supportive of Israeli policies.
As well as visiting Jerusalem, the group has toured Hebron in the West Bank with a leader of Breaking the Silence, the controversial nonprofit that collects testimonies of Israeli soldiers who served in Palestinian areas.
Additionally, they met with a former Palestinian political prisoner, saw the separation barrier in Jericho, and learned from a Bedouin activist about Israel’s policy of destroying unauthorized villages in the Negev desert.
The Center for Constitutional Rights said in a statement Tuesday that the trip was designed to help participants “better understand the human rights situation in Israel and Palestine, including the history of systematic displacement and institutional racism, as well as the work of human rights defenders there.”
And she is apparently lucky to be here.
Mallory very well might not have made it to Israel: The Center for Constitutional Rights said that executive director Vincent Warren and board chair Katherine Franke were deported after being denied entry into the country and subjected to 14 hours of questioning at Ben Gurion International Airport about their association with anti-Israel groups.
Watch this space. No doubt, we are going to be subjected to more of her propaganda during this trip.
