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New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang seems to be attracting some controversy of his own. According to a report in the NY Post, Yang’s new mayoral campaign manager Sasha Ahuja is a longtime progressive activist with ties to Israel basher and Jew hater, Linda Sarsour
Sarsour, 41, was a leader of the “Women’s March” on Washington along with Tamika Mallory and other polarizing figures in the post-modern feminist movement. During the 2020 presidential race, she did align herself with the Bernie Sanders campaign, but did not agree with him on his positions pertaining to Israel.
In 2019, Sanders wrote about his support for Israel, calling the nation an “enormous achievement” and “a democratic homeland for the Jewish people.” Soon thereafter, Sarsour said that support for Israel as a state is unacceptable in the progressive movement.
Regarding the Yang-Ahuja connection, Mark Meyer Appel, founder of The Bridge Multicultural Advocacy Project, told the Post that, “I understand why Andrew Yang hired her; trying to project yourself as a progressive. Appel, a supporter of Yang opponent Eric Adams, said Ahuja has been “hanging out with some real trouble makers.”
Currently, the polls indicate that Yang is the frontrunner in the race for City Hall. Ahuja, 33, was recently promoted to the leadership of Yang’s campaign, named a co-campaign manager earlier this month along with Chris Coffey, a bruiser consultant from Tusk Strategies, according to an article on the subject on the ReportDoor.com web site.
Yang reaffirmed his support for Israel following the earlier report by the NY Post. Yang said in a statement that he disagrees with Linda Sarsour on many things, including BDS and Israel. Yang committed to making Israel his first international trip, if elected, according to a Vois Es Nais news brief.
On March 8, 2017, both Ahuja and Sarsour were arrested together during a protest outside Trump International Hotel & Tower in Manhattan, according to a report on the ReportDoor.com web site.
“We get arrested in civil disobedience (unplanned ) on International Women’s Day during the #DayWithoutWoman noon event organized by the Women’s March,” Sarsour said in a Facebook post documenting the moment, and sharing a photo of her, Ahuja and fellow activist Faiza Ali being arrested, as was reported in the article on ReportDoor.com
Ahuja has gushed about her controversial mentor.“What they don’t realize is that @lsarsour has raised a generation of activists. She paved the way for all of us. When they come for her, they come for all of us. Not on our watch. NOPE. We love you and stand with you always, Linda! #StandWithLinda,” she said in one tweet from Aug. 2020.
“Linda Sarsour is a freedom fighter and she taught us how to fight #istandwithlinda,” she said in another. “Linda Sarsour is my shero. The end. #phenomenalwoman” Ahuja added in yet a third social media homily to the activist
