(Middle East Eye) Congressman William Lacy Clay, a Missouri Democrat, is facing accusations of Islamophobia after his campaign sent a flyer featuring the photo of Muslim-American activist Linda Sarsour to attack his progressive challenger over her support for the right to boycott Israel.
The campaign literature calls out Clay’s progressive challenger Cori Bush over being endorsed by Sarsour, describing the Muslim organiser — who is a frequent target of right-wing attacks — as “an anti-Israel activist and a leader of the BDS movement in the United States.”
Bush, who entered public life as a leading activist in the Black Lives Matter protests after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, has expressed support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in the past, but foreign policy has not been a major issue in the race.
