(Tower) Anti-Israel activist and Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour gave the keynote address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Minority Health Conference on February 22. Many community members were baffled that the UNC Minority Health Conference extended an invitation to Sarsour to give the keynote address. As one UNC graduate student told me, “One would expect an academic conference on public health to focus on public health.”
During the second of two question-and-answer periods, Sarsour brought up Israel, stating, “One of the areas where we don’t agree with some of our friends in the Jewish community is on Israel-Palestine. And I’m Palestinian. And I believe and I support the boycott, divestment, sanctions movement, aka BDS … I do not believe that critiquing a state or a government is akin to anti-Semitism.”
