Women’s March ousts newest board member, a former executive director of CAIR, over anti-semitic statements

The board of the left-wing Women’s March quickly voted its newest member off the board, just days after her appointment was announced.

The board jettisoned activist Zahra Billoo on Tuesday night, after past anti-Semitic social media posts of Billoo’s surfaced.

Billoo announced her removal on Twitter in a series of 25 tweets and said that outrage over her appointment was motivated by Islamaphobia.

Since this is going to be in your newsfeeds in the morning – here’s a thread about me being voted off the board of @WomensMarch tonight 1/

— Zahra Billoo (@ZahraBilloo) September 19, 2019

“This followed an Islamophobic smear campaign led by the usual antagonists, who have long targeted me, my colleagues, and anyone else who dares speak out in support of Palestinian human rights and the right to self-determination,” Billoo said of the backlash against her.

The Women’s March’s appointment of Billoo came after they severed ties with activists Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, who both have a history of making anti-Semitic comments. The Women’s March had come under fire over Sarsour and Mallory’s controversial views, with hundreds of left-wing groups ending their support for the March, including the Democratic National Committee.

Before her appointment as a leader of the March, Billoo served as an executive director at the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization with ties to Islamic terror groups.

Given her work at CAIR prior to her appointment, it makes one wonder what the board of the Women’s March were thinking when they appointed Billoo. Did they really think that her work for CAIR and her known anti-American and anti-semitic point of view would remain hidden?