Her idea of human rights is cheering the destruction of Israel.
When Airbnb began boycotting the homes of Jews living in those parts of Israel claimed by Islamic terrorists, the Jewish communities of the United States rallied against the dot com.
Sarah Margon however stood against the Jewish communities and with the Airbnb boycott.
“Airbnb to remove listings in Israeli settlements of occupied West Bank. Thanks @Airbnb for showing some good leadership here. Other companies should follow suit,” she tweeted.
“Airbnb is playing a role by supporting the settlement real estate infrastructure?—?they’re perpetuating an illegal activity,” Margon ranted. “There is no way for a company…to do business in the settlements without violating the laws of occupation.”
That’s the woman Biden picked as his Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
“Yesterday @Airbnb agreed to stop renting in the Israeli-occupied settlements,” Margon argued. “Other companies should follow @Airbnb’s lead.”
BDS will now have a powerful ally within the Biden administration and the State Department.
Margon’s hatred for Israel was not surprising. The leftist extremist was heading up the Human Rights Watch office in Washington D.C. HRW has defended BDS and recently issued a report falsely accusing Israel of apartheid. Airbnb’s temporary surrender to BDS was an HRW project.
Sarah Margon was defending an HRW policy. HRW’s Deputy Director for the region had agreed in an interview that it was a crime for Jews to live anywhere in the West Bank. That same HRW official recently argued that the Biden administration should support the “right” to boycott Israel. Margon’s appointment would make that much more likely. So much for human rights.
Margon was active on social media “urging companies to pull out of the Israeli Settlements”, but her hatred for the Jewish State goes beyond an economic war of BDS in all its forms.
When Peter Beinart put out his infamous, “I No Longer Believe in a Jewish State” op-ed, Margon highlighted an excerpt calling for one state and the destruction of Israel.
“Peter Beinart on fire,” she cheered.
That’s Biden’s Assistant Secretary for Human Rights supporting the destruction of Israel.
Sarah Michelle Margon is one of a number of anti-Israel activists Biden picked including Maher Bitar, who was pictured dancing in a keffiyah in front of a banner reading, “Divest from Israel Apartheid” and is now Biden’s Senior Director for Intelligence on the National Security Council, and Hady Amr, who described being “inspired by the Palestinian intifada” and is now Biden’s point man on the conflict between Israel and the terrorists fighting to destroy the Jewish State.
Reema Dodin, Biden’s Deputy White House Legislative Director, had argued that, “suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people.”
Margon’s selection isn’t surprising for an administration that appears determined to put a few moderates out front while packing the policy ranks full of anti-American and anti-Israel extremists. At one point Matt Duss, an ally of Margon, Bernie’s foreign policy advisor, and one of the more infamously anti-Israel figures in the echo chamber, was under consideration.
While Margon may not be up there with Duss, whom she’s praised and promoted, her attacks on Israel and opposition to Jewish civil rights was consistent. When she wasn’t attacking Israel, she was attacking the idea of protecting Jewish students from her anti-Israel collaborators.
When President Trump signed Executive Order 13899 on Combating Anti-Semitism at colleges, Margon complained that it “ostensibly addresses antisemitism. But in reality it’s a bogus initiative geared to stifle free speech & go after those who might criticize Israel.”
Margon’s hatred and hostility for the Jewish state were relentless.
As Hamas supporters rioted at Israel’s border fence with the terrorist statelet, a New York Times puff piece celebrated one of the rioters who was “screaming ‘Allahu akbar!’ and hurling stones”.
Sarah Margon tweeted a link to it with the comment, “Extra important read when the new US SecState comes out of the gate noting Israel has a right to defend itself.”
When the Obama administration stood against Israel, she tweeted, “Vote affirms illegality of settlements, longstanding US policy. Thank you @POTUS.”
Margon repeatedly complained that the United States was providing Israel with military equipment and falsely accused it of “exploiting COVID-19 & using it as a pretext for repression.”
“Such brutality & injustice rarely so stark,” she tweeted about a piece smearing Israel over casualties in Gaza.
After HRW, Sarah Margon joined one of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations as its director of foreign policy advocacy. The OSFs fund BDS groups and Soros, its backer, has blamed antisemitism on Jews and the “pro-Israel lobby”. “If we change that direction, then anti-Semitism also will diminish,” the extremist anti-Israel billionaire has argued.
“Despite what Giuliani wants you to think, being Jewish is not decided by political preference or how you live your life or how much you support Israel,” Margon, who is of Jewish ancestry, had argued. But how you live your life does determine if you’re Jewish or not.
And part of that is opposing antisemitism and the murder of Jews.
A snapshot of Margon’s activism can be seen in her Twitter feed which shows her promoting attacks on Israel by HRW’s Abier Almasri who has defended terrorists. In one article promoted by Margon, Almasri described, “three military assaults Israel has launched during its armed conflicts with the Hamas-led Gaza authority since 2008”. Not Hamas terrorists: authority.
“Starting our day off right – visit to @RashidaTlaib,” Margon tweeted in 2019 about accompanying Almasri to the militantly anti-Israel and pro-terrorist House member.
Included in the tweet was Omar Shakir, an HRW BDS activist, on whose behalf Margon had campaigned when Israel told him to leave. “Where is the US on the ouster of my colleague @OmarSShakir from Israel? Virtually silent, just like on the Israeli security forces’ disproportionate attacks on Palestinians in Gaza,” Margon complained in 2018.
But it wasn’t just the Islamic Jihadis trying to murder Jews who animated Margon’s activism.
When President Trump took out the head of ISIS and said, “he died like a dog”, Margon whined about his “aggressive language” which “can easily be used to recruit & radicalize.”
“US is illegally transferring foreign ISIS suspects from Syria to Iraq, leading to botched trials & torture,” another tweet complained.
All of this will have severe consequences for American soldiers who have come under fire from Sarah Margon before.
When Air Force pilots bombed an Afghan hospital that Taliban fighters had been using, Margon wrote a letter to Obama’s Secretary of Defense on behalf of HRW demanding a “criminal investigation” and the “possible criminal liability of US personnel.”
Our men and women in uniform, like the Israelis, have to watch out.
The Biden administration is coming for them.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
@ peloni1986:
I should additionally relate that among my many liberal Jewish friends, I failed to relate that there are others who have turned to the right, still avowing their love of FDR and LBJ while they pulled the lever for Trump, though with varying degrees of comfort in so doing, and are still somewhat stout advocates of Israel. I find that they must have been immune to the Democrat-hate filling grog I reference before, as they are as repulsed by their liberal associates as I am, well almost as repulsed anyway. So, I do not mean to paint all liberally minded people with a single brush as being evil or hate filled. But to have voted for the Democrats in this last election, I am at a loss for any explanation of how any rational and civically minded Jewish person might countenance support for such an obviously corrupt group of self-serving demagogues whose unequivocal determination to bring ruin upon the Jewish State was as perfectly self-evident as is the fact that water is wet.
@ Redbear:
I have done this quite often, as I am on very familiar terms with many such liberally minded left-leaning Jewish friends and colleagues. I have interacted with these individuals over the years with some regularity on a personal, religious and political level. It has long been a personal belief of mine that between two banks of a river, a bridge of conversation can draw the two shores closer such that a certain level of understanding and respect at least might be achieved, and possibly a great deal more. So in discussing the routine variety of topics with these friends, I have noticed at first a gradual change in their opinion of Israel and later a much greater change. Over these many years as we have all aged, the support for the Jewish state by many of these liberal friends became equivocal at first. But more recently over the past ten years, this equivocation gave way to the absolute animosity for most everything related to Israel. I am not one to routinely adopt an overly harsh manner in my dialogues as I find it displeasant for all and largely counter-productive to my purpose. But, even with this in mind, I have to confess that more recently these conversations have taken on a tone of challenge between myself and my many Liberal acquaintances often resulting in their use of bruising personal commentary as a substitute for explanation for their disquieting and most recently bizarre opinions. Their sense of defense was such that they came to prefer to gather in groups to converse with me where they found it easier to display their outspoken hatred for our homeland than if I were to parlay with them in more secluded perimeters. With the onset of the Trump years, they became reluctant to speak upon the topic and if I pressed, I would often regret it due to their uncontrolled animosity and uncontrolled rage which has always made me muse if their was something in the grog that was passed about at Democratic meetings to so toxify the souls of these people I have known on a personal level for decades. One such individual who I have known since we both live as 10yr old neighboring children. In our youth we relished the tales of our homeland, and I recall having serious and productive discussions in our early adulthood regarding the great missed opportunities by the Arabs to deal with Israel and benefit from the relationship. And now that we are both much older, our wives seem to act as umpires to closely structure our conversations – I with this very old and dear friend whose warm and frank relationship has grown to be but a closely structured shadow of our former selves. I regret this modern hate-wielding disease that has so infected my Liberal associates that it steels their mind like a locked box and fills my Jewish friends with a terrible animus for Israel and reason alike.
Speak to the Jewish voters who voted for anti semitic Joe Biden. The Jewish voters seem very happy with the destruction of the State of Israel as reflected by this article.