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Lets begin with a thought experiment. Imagine if one of Americas largest and most-respected pro-life organizations tweeted birthday greetings to Robert Dear, the terrorist who attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015.Imagine the reaction if an allegedly mainstream conservative organization said happy birthday to Dylann Roof, the white-supremacist murderer who slaughtered nine innocent people in Charleston.

How would the media respond? What would the tweets reveal about the character and intentions of the people running the organization? Should well-meaning Americans continue to support groups that applaud violent, vicious terrorists?

The answers are obvious. Of course the media would and should absolutely roast any conservative group that applauded pro-life or white-supremacist violence. Of course well-meaning Americans should shun and withdraw support for groups that celebrate terrorists. And of course support for terrorists would reveal a moral corruption at the heart of even the most popular organizations.

Unless, however, those groups are on the left, their leaders are progressive radicals, and the terrorists they applaud are cop-killers. Then, the media ignores the outrage, elevates the outrageous, and maintains the charade that key elements of the progressive #Resistance represent nothing more than a spontaneous, reasonable, and virtuous response to a dangerous and authoritarian president.

Doubt me? Consider the reverence reserved for the Womens March and Black Lives Matter.

Mainstream media coverage of both organizations has been fawning, and their leaders have been subject to heroic profiles. As a result, millions of well-intentioned, reasonable liberals have been duped into supporting and elevating both groups, which do things like this:

Yes, thats an official Womens March tweet delivering birthday greetings to one of the FBIs most-wanted terrorists. Shakur (born Joanne Chesimard) is a convicted cop-killer who now lives in Cuba after escaping an American prison. Heres the FBI summary of her crimes:

Joanne Chesimard is wanted for escaping from prison in Clinton, New Jersey, while serving a life sentence for murder. On May 2, 1973, Chesimard, who was part of a revolutionary extremist organization known as the Black Liberation Army, and two accomplices were stopped for a motor vehicle violation on the New Jersey Turnpike by two troopers with the New Jersey State Police. At the time, Chesimard was wanted for her involvement in several felonies, including bank robbery. Chesimard and her accomplices opened fire on the troopers. One trooper was wounded and the other was shot and killed execution-style at point-blank range. Chesimard fled the scene, but was subsequently apprehended. One of her accomplices was killed in the shoot-out and the other was also apprehended and remains in jail.

In other words, shes a domestic terrorist who belonged to a domestic terrorist organization. If the Womens March had an ounce of integrity, it would have apologized, deleted its tweet, and terminated the person responsible. Instead, it responded to the inevitable deluge of criticism with a 20-tweet screed rationalizing and excusing its support for Shakur. Yes, it issued a rote call for nonviolent resistance, but it also threw out howlers like this:

And this:

Whats next? An ode to Muriel Degauque because she broke the glass ceiling on female suicide bombers when she blew herself up in Iraq in 2005? A tribute to Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan for his dedication to the Palestinian cause? (Sirhans resistance tactics were different from ours. That does not mean we dont respect his condemnations of Israeli aggression.)

This should surprise no one, of course. The Womens March is the home of radical activist Linda Sarsour, the mainstream-media darling whose story has been ably told by our own Ian Tuttle. Among other things, Sarsour is a conspiracy theorist, she fabricated a hate crime against herself, and shes uncomfortably close to Islamic terrorists. Heres Ian:

Sarsour seems to have no qualms about associating with outright extremism, either. At Decembers MAS-ICNA convention, she posed for a photo with Salah Sarsour (no relation), a Milwaukee man who was jailed in Israel in the 1990s for using his Twin Cities furniture store to funnel money to Hamas, the terrorist organization that currently governs the Gaza Strip. Linda Sarsour herself has used Twitter to encourage the stoning of the Israel Defense Forces. She has also pushed back against accusations of human-rights abuses in parts of the Arab world. And later this spring, she will appear at the Jewish Voice for Peaces 2017 National Member Meeting alongside Rasmeah Odeh, who was sentenced to life in prison by an Israeli court in 1970 for her role in two 1969 bombings in Jerusalem, one near the British Consulate and another at a grocery store; the latter bombing killed two Hebrew University students and wounded nine others. Sarsour has previously championed Odeh on Twitter.

Given this record, conservatives can be excused for being troubled at her recent call for a form of jihad against the Trump administration.

Praise for terrorists isnt limited to Sarsour or to the Womens March; Black Lives Matter has gotten in on the action, too. Late last year, after Fidel Castro died, BLM published an extraordinarily odious tribute to El Comandante (yes, they used that phrase) that lauded him for sheltering Shakur and other domestic terrorists:

As a Black network committed to transformation, we are particularly grateful to Fidel for holding Mama Assata Shakur, who continues to inspire us. We are thankful that he provided a home for Brother Michael Finney, Ralph Goodwin, and Charles Hill, asylum to Brother Huey P. Newton, and sanctuary for so many other Black revolutionaries who were being persecuted by the American government during the Black Power era.

Finney, Goodwin, and Hill werecop-killers and hijackers. Newton was also a cop-killer. Given this explicit praise, and the number of times that BLM protesters have openly called for violence against the police, and the number of times that BLM rallies have descended into violence (mostly peaceful, the media euphemistically calls them), isnt it time to consign the organization to the fringe of American life?

The continued media respect for the Womens March and Black Lives Matter is even more maddening given the double standards applied to conservative organizations. Last week, both ABC and NBC had the gall to credulously repeat far-Left claims that my former employer, the Alliance Defending Freedom, was a hate group not because it has ever endorsed violence (it hasnt), but because of its steadfast legal and moral defense of orthodox Christian positions on sexual morality.

Heres my question, ABC and NBC: If youre going to publicize hate group claims about groups like the ADF in your headlines, why not do the same in every one of your headlines about Black Lives Matter or the Womens March? Given our polarized times, shouldnt readers be aware that both of those groups have praised and applauded one of the FBIs most-wanted domestic terrorists? Isnt that information well-meaning readers deserve to know?

As it is, these radical groups enjoy the best of both worlds, maintaining the mainstream-media credibility that allows them to raise money and capture the support of millions while also applauding and sustaining a far more dangerous fringe. Reasonable Americans march. Well-meaning Americans donate. Radicals profit.

Yesterday, CNNs Jake Tapper broke ranks with his media colleagues and explicitly challenged the Womens March and Sarsour. This was an ideal time for them to retract their tweet and apologize. Instead, Sarsour said Tapper had join[ed] the ranks of the alt-right by criticizing her. This was unhinged, and breathtakingly dishonest to boot.

Its time for the rest of the media to join Tapper, awaken from its anti-Trump trance, apply the same scrutiny to the Left as it does to the Right, and report the sad truth. Two of Americas most well-known #Resistance groups claim nonviolence but applaud terrorists. Liberal Americans, they havent earned your support and they dont deserve your respect.

READ MORE: What Would It Take for Progressives to Reject Black Lives Matter? The Jihad-Loving Left Loves Linda Sarsour Sarsour Rekindles the Lefts Love Affair with Radical Extremism

David French is a senior writer for National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, and an attorney.

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As a crowd gathered for a Thursday morning announcement on new parks and completed construction projects along the Ben Franklin Parkway at the Philadelphia Free Librarys Main Branch, activists seized the opportunity to have their voices heard at a gathering of the citys elected officials.

Just moments after a man dressed in a William Shakespeare costume helped announce the new Shakespeare Park at the library, Black Lives Matter activist Asa Khalif stepped to the front of the crowd in the lobby of the library, letting his voice echo across the building's marble floor.

Khalif and others came seeking answers in the fatal June 8 shooting of David Jones. Jones, who was reportedly armed, was killed by an officer of the citys 15th police district shotonce in the back and once in the buttock as he ran from a scuffle with the officer after being pulled over on his dirt bike.

The people must hold politicians accountable, said Khalif. His name was David Jones. His life mattered.

Khalif stole the spotlight for several minutes. When officers of the Philadelphia Police arrived and moved to confront the activist, Mayor Jim Kenney intervened, shaking his head "no" and motioning them away, in a move that Khalif said he appreciated.

Thank God we have a mayor who took a stand today and told that pig to get out, said Khalif, after the mayor moved officers away.

During the impromptu rally, Isaac Gardner, who has been the lead organizer of Justice for David Jones rallies and who described himself as a representative of Jones family, took Khalifs bullhorn to lament the lack of information that the dead mans family has gotten since the 30-year-old Jones was killed by a police officer.

He was shot twice in the back. Hes dead now, said Gardner. Let the family know they arent alone in this.

After a few moments, the activists left, but not before announcing that they will hold a listening session on Thursday night, which plans to include members of the family of David Jones and a representative of the Department of Justice. That event will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at 1414 S. Penn Sq.

After the men left the building, Mayor Kenney said that he appreciated the fact that we live in a country, and city, that supports a persons right to protest.

I think thats what makes this country what it is and what makes this city what it is, he said.

He also noted that the investigation into Jones death is ongoing.

A preliminary police report said a loaded 9mm was recovered from Jones. But one alleged witness to the shooting claims Jones was not armed when he fled, and that he had dropped the gun in the dirt near his feet before running. That account remains unconfirmed. The case is under review, and the department is not commenting on the shooting.

The activists continued to chant outside the library for several minutes before departing. Khalif described this event as the latest in a "week of rage," which has also seen Khalif and Gardner protest on Monday at the Managing Director's office and at the meeting of the Police Advisory Commission, as well as inside City Hall on Wednesday while candidates for interim district attorney were interviewed.

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Alicia Garza, one of the co-founders Black Lives Matter, tweeted Wednesday night in support of the Chicago Dyke Marchs decision to ask two Jewish LGBT women carrying Star of David flags to leave their march.

Shoutout to @DykeMarchChi for standing up for their principals when folks tried to take it over for their own agenda, Garza tweeted.

Garzas tweet drew critical responses from some quarters.

this makes me so damn sad, tweeted Talia Lavin, a food writer. im an earnest queer leftist who loves my jewish identity - i want to be able to display a magen david on my .

before or after they deleted their KKK esque tweet? responded Chloe Simone Valdary, a pro-Israel activist, referring to a tweet posted by the Chicago Dyke March that used an anti-Semitic epithet for Zionists popularized by David Duke.

Contact Ari Feldman at feldman@forward.com or on Twitter @aefeldman.

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AP, NY Times Are Conveniently AWOL as Women's March, Black Lives Matter Praise 1970s Cop KIller NewsBusters (press release) (blog) That controversy has even pulled in the Black Lives Matter movement, which has also received consistent and undeserved favorable press treatment, also exposing BLM once again as consistently, violently radical. Now the AP and the Times aren't covering ... and more »

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On Jan. 21 2017, the Womens March on Washington ledwhat many now believe wasthe largest single-day demonstration in recorded U.S. history. Organized by experienced women of coloractivists and organizers (Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, and Carmen Perez), the march called on women of diverse backgrounds, including immigrant, queer/trans, and Muslim women, to demonstrate a show offorce against the new regime of Donald Trump, which has so far been built almost exclusively on a platform of anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-Black, anti-Muslim and xenophobic rhetoric.

Despite the impressive critical massthat turned outon January 20th, however, there were substantial and substantiated criticisms of the march:notwithstandingits leadership by women of color, the march was largely white, cisgender, and middle-class in representation.

Amidst white womens calls that womens rights are humans rights, there was little discussion of the way in which white women have historically colluded with white patriarchy in the oppression of Black people to obtain their rights, nor was there discussion of white womens historical participation in thegenocide and oppression of Indigenous people. Not to mention that it was white women who, more than any other single group of people, voted Donald Trump into the presidential office by an overwhelming majority.

In addition, calls for solidarity among all women through the donning of the now infamous pink pussy hats sparked rightful cynicism and criticismfrom trans and gender non-conforming women,many of whom did not appreciate an outdated and exclusionary version of womanhood rooted in biology rather than identity, experience, and structural oppression. Not all women have vaginas, and not all womens parts are pink. For many trans women and/or women of color, the call tounite underasupposedly universal symbol of womanhood that was so blatantly rooted in a white, cisgender experiencemade it impossible to endorse.

Despite its many flaws and shortcomings, however, the Womens March was not a one-time occurrence, and it did not simply disband after the march.

Since Jan. 21, the Womens March has become a smaller but more focused contingent of activists that more pointedly centers issues affectingBlack, immigrant, and Muslim women. Most recently, the WM contingent, under the leadership of Palestinian-American Muslim activist Linda Sarsour,centrally took up the concerns of the Black Lives Matter Movement in a way that it should continue to do if it is to be a lasting force for change during the Trump presidency and beyond.

After news broke last month that the court had failed to indictthe police officer who murdered Philando Castile (a legal, licensed gun carrier in the state of Minnesota), co-chair of the Womens MovementTamika Mallorya Black woman who has spent many years advocating for gun controlissueda letter to the NRA (National Rifle Association) askingwhy it had not stood up for the rights of Philando Castile. Given that Castilewas a legal gun owner (as required by law, Castile informed the officer who pulled him over that he had a legal license to carry), she argued, the NRA logically should have rallied for his cause, since it allegedlysupports the rights of citizens to arm themselves.

In typical hypocrite fashion, however, it soon became clear that by citizens right to bear arms, the NRA didnot mean all citizens, but seeminglyonly white male citizens. Anyone elses right to bear arms, apparently, was not worth defending. Rather than responding to Mallorysletter directly, the NRA instead issued thisoffensive advertisement, and Mallory was deluged with death threats from NRA supporters.In response, Sarsour, Mallory, and the WM contingent led a march from the NRA headquarters to the Department of Justice in Washington D.C.to demand that the NRA be held accountable for its failure to address the infringement of Castiles second amendment rights, and for endangering the safety of Tamika Mallory.

The kind of work that the Womens March is now doingwork that directly and specifically addresses police violence against the Black community and the safety of Black women in particularisexactly the kind of work it should continue to do. In other words, the Womens March should take its cue from the Black Lives Matter movement by centering issues specific to Black women and their communities.If the womens movement is to make any kind of meaningful progress, it must first make Black lives matter.

This is true especially because the Womens March that took place on January 20th, 2017 had an important precedent, which has so far received little attention: the Womens March of 1997, which was entirely conceived and led by Black women. OnOct. 25, 1997, an estimated 750,000 Blackwomen gathered together to march down the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, in order to inspire Blackwomen across the nation to work for their own improvement as well as that of their communities. The Womens March should not only acknowledge its debt to this earlier iteration of the Womens March, conceived and ledtwenty years previous by Black women, but should continue to center the voices and issues of Black women which remain by and large unaddressed.

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