A leading New York research university which plans to host a panel on antisemitism featuring Muslim activist Linda Sarsour later this month has been attacked for staging “a pathetic farce.”
Ms Sarsour, a well-known Palestinian-American campaigner, stoked controversy earlier this year by asserting that Zionists cannot simultaneously be feminists because the Israeli occupation of the West Bank was oppressive to women.
She was also a co-chair of the January 2017 Women's March on Washington that took place on Donald Trump's first day in office.
The November 28 event, entitled “Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice”, will take place at the New School in Manhattan, a university that made its name by offering positions to academics and intellectuals including political theorists Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss fleeing Nazi Germany and fascist Italy in the 1930s.
