The person whom Mayor Eric Adams chose to be chair and executive director for his city’s Commission on Racial Equity has a long history of using racist language.
According to the New York Post, Linda Tigani, who appeared to be antisemitic in some of her postings on X, received over $140,000 in 2022 while serving as the city’s interim top equity and strategy officer.
A term she seems to have used is “from the river to the sea,” which has become a war cry for Hamas terrorists who want to destroy Israel.
On July 1, 2020, she wrote on X, “FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA! Palestine Will Become Free!” The post seems to only be viewable by people Tigani has granted permission to see it. It seems to have a video clip taken from the so-called “Day of Rage” gathering in Brooklyn, where people chanted “Death to America” as well as “Death to Israel.”
The Post said that Tigani has utilized social media to share videos that bring attention to the killings this year by Israel on Palestinians. She did not, however, talk about the terrorist attacks that Hamas has done against the Jewish state.
In spite of the fact that Tigani seems to side with the Palestinians over Israel, she has not openly condemned the attacks by Hamas on October 7 that killed 1,400 Israelis. Also, no one knows how many people were taken hostage during the sudden attack.
The Post says that the independent Commission for Racial Equity’s job is to work with New Yorkers to figure out how to achieve the city’s controversial racial equity goals.
Joe Borelli, the minority leader of the City Council, pointed out Tigani’s hypocrisy by saying, “So the wokester who actually is supposed to call out racism has unleashed some racist antisemitic garbage.”
“Probably the only word that I am able to call her that The Post will not bleep out is ‘hypocrite,'” he told the Post about the situation.
There is a lot of support for Palestinians among Americans on the left, who think that Israel is a foreign power. Still, these Americans haven’t said anything bad about what Hamas and other terrorist groups in the Middle East did.
1/2 At Brooklyn “No to Annexation” Rally, Speakers Call to Abolish Police, Israel, and U.S. Government, Crowd Chants: “Death to America!”, “Millions of Martyrs Are Marching to Jerusalem!”; Activist: When a Precinct or a Cop Car Burns, It Feels Closer to Palestine pic.twitter.com/OQUnGtV5jS
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) July 2, 2020
Europe has also been filled with antisemitic chants and words since Hamas attacked Israel. In some places, Jews are being encouraged to remain inside because violence could happen against them.
