Comedian Sarah Silverman Calls Out Women's March Leader Over Disturbing Anti-Semitic Connection
When you’ve lost Sarah Silverman, you know you’ve gone off the deep end.
The comedian and actress is no conservative. She’s been an outspoken critic of Donald Trump and anything right-leaning for years, often using crass language and even cheering for the president to be sexually assaulted. But even Silverman knows when to distance herself from a failed movement.
On Wednesday, the liberal comic post a Twitter update distancing herself from Women’s March organizer Tamika Mallory for seemingly refusing to disown anti-Semitic comments from the far left.
“Mallory appeared on ‘The View’ Monday, where she was grilled by co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Meghan McCain over her ties to (Louis) Farrakhan,” reported Fox News.
Mallory, the leader of the feminist Women’s March, previously praised Farrakhan as the “greatest of all time because of what he’s done in black communities.” But the same man is widely known for his inflammatory and frequently anti-Jewish rants.
“When Mallory was asked to expound her comments and to condemn Farrakhan, who infamously called Jews ‘wicked,’ she refused and simply repeated to the hosts that she didn’t agree with him,” explained Fox.
That was a weak response, and apparently not enough for Silverman.
I cannot imagine having such mild feelings over such a furious hatred of an entire people. He calls us termites. I’m heartbroken but im gonna stay hopeful because I don’t wanna give up on Tamika. (oh wow I s that how SHE feels about LF?)
Oh this life… https://t.co/GCpOYZdgLT— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) January 16, 2019
“I cannot imagine having such mild feelings over such a furious hatred of an entire people,” Silverman, who has Jewish ancestry, posted on her official Twitter account. “He calls us termites. I’m heartbroken but (I’m) gonna stay hopeful because I don’t wanna give up on Tamika.”
The comedian isn’t the only person to be getting cold feet about associating with the Women’s March and its organizers. Another Hollywood leftist, Alyssa Milano, recently declared that she won’t speak at the March unless its organizers stop defending Farrakhan.
“Any time that there is any bigotry or anti-Semitism in that respect, it needs to be called out and addressed. I’m disappointed in the leadership of the Women’s March that they haven’t done it adequately,” Milano told an LGBT magazine called The Advocate.
The Democratic National Committee is also backpedaling from the movement which was a liberal and media darling just a short time ago.
“Both Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory have ties to Nation of Islam leader and proud anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,” explained Independent Journal Review.
“Although the March is less than a week away, the DNC had their name removed from a list of sponsors for the March after a series of accusations of anti-Semitism rocked the leadership team for the national organization,” IJR reported earlier this week.
On the one hand, we must give credit where it’s due. There’s no way to shrug off the past behavior of people like Silverman, but she deserves at least a hat tip here for speaking out against Mallory and Farrakhan.
On the other hand, however, this in-fighting shows just how fragile movements based more on personalities than principles truly are. Far too many people jumped on the Women’s March bandwagon without vetting its organizers, and seemed to clamor for anything connected to “#MeToo” before considering who they were backing.
America needs less hatred, not more. That’s something both sides of the political aisle can come together on, but Farrakhan and his extremism have no place at that table.
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