New Women's March Leadership Defended Evicted Members

The new members of the leadership of the March of Women have previously defended the members of the board of directors of the Liberal organization amid allegations of anti-Semitism.

Linda Sarsour, Bob Bland and Tamika Mallory resigned from the March of Women in July, but the band's website was not updated until this week. While new board member Zahra Billoo has a tradition of anti-Zionist tweets, other members of the new leadership have expressed their support for Sarsour and Mallory.

Samia Assed, an American activist of Palestinian origin who sits on the board of directors of the Center for Peace and Justice of Albuquerque, has published photos with Sarsour and retweeted a video with the with the caption, "Israel = worse than the devil part 2." Assed's Twitter account is now private.

Mrinalini Chakraborty, executive director of Men4Choice and who launched Women's March Illinois, tweeted on American Airlines, "You crashed with the bad sister. [Tamika DMallory] has an army behind her "and showed her support for Sarsour when she was arrested for disrupting the Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings.

Sarsour and Mallory have been accused of anti-Semitism because of their ties to the leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, who has a long history of anti-Semitic comments.

The March of Women did not return the Washington Examinerrequest for comments in time for publication.