Linda Sarsour has claimed that Jews can't be feminists and promoted anti-Semitic terror. But when a Jewish cemetery was vandalized, she and her Islamic pals became a media sensation by fundraising to repair the cemetery. It wasn't clear who was actually donating to the cemetery. But the media spun it as "Muslims fundraise for Jewish cemetery." It was a politically correct feel good story.
But now there's a new twist.
A Jewish cemetery in Colorado that has fallen into severe disrepair has yet to receive a check for some $100,000 from a group associated with Palestinian-American BDS activist Linda Sarsour, despite being promised the money several months ago, The Algemeiner learned on Tuesday.
Neil Price of the Golden Hill Cemetery in Lakewood, CO said he had left three unreturned voicemails for Tarek El-Messidi, the founder of non-profit Islamic education organization Celebrate Mercy, who led the high-profile effort by the Muslim community in February and March to raise money for vandalized Jewish cemeteries in the US. El-Messidi’s partner in the effort was Sarsour.
A Jewish cemetery in Colorado that has fallen into severe disrepair has yet to receive a check for some $100,000 from a group associated with Palestinian-American BDS activist Linda Sarsour, despite being promised the money several months ago, The Algemeinerlearned on Tuesday.
Neil Price of the Golden Hill Cemetery in Lakewood, CO said he had left three unreturned voicemails for Tarek El-Messidi, the founder of non-profit Islamic education organization Celebrate Mercy, who led the high-profile effort by the Muslim community in February and March to raise money for vandalized Jewish cemeteries in the US. El-Messidi’s partner in the effort was Sarsour.
Some cemeteries appear to have received some money. Golden Hill has not. Even though...
On March 24, the Celebrate Mercy campaign organizers announced on the website:
With extra funds raised, we have decided to embark on a major project to restore a neglected and vandalized Jewish cemetery in Colorado which is on the National Register of Historic Places. Costs will be over $100K. Learn about the story of this historic cemetery here. We are now hoping to raise a total of $200,000 to ensure we have the funds for this project while helping other vandalized sites as well.
So much for that.
Price told The Algemeiner that he has no expectation that he will ever see the Celebrate Mercy money.
“I’ve been doing this [non-profit work] a long time, so I know how it works,” said Price. “You need budgets and time tables, and none of that is here.”
El-Messidi did not respond to The Algemeiner‘s request for comment by press time.
But the real goal, positive publicity for the Islamic activists, was achieved.