Linda Sarsour, a co-organiser of the annual Women’s March, used last weekend’s event to back a boycott of Israel.
She said in a speech to demonstrators in Washington, DC that she defended “freedom of speech and the constitutional right to boycott, divestment, and sanctions in these United States of America”.
While many Jewish groups and individuals said they would not attend the march, some did, including New York-based Abby Stein, a transgender Jewish woman and ordained rabbi.
During the New York rally, a woman who was later identified as a far-right activist seized the microphone on stage and yelled “The Women’s March hates Jews”.
