{"id":1424452,"date":"2022-04-07T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T21:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424452"},"modified":"2022-04-07T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T21:15:13","slug":"geico-drops-anti-semite-as-diversity-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/geico-drops-anti-semite-as-diversity-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Geico Drops Anti-Semite as \u2018Diversity Speaker\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeico-drops-anti-semite-as-diversity-speaker%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424452&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Geico, the second-largest car insurance company in the United States, canceled an event with anti-Semitic activist Linda Sarsour after backlash from Jewish groups, the <i>Times of Israel<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/geico-drops-linda-sarsour-as-a-diversity-speaker-after-backlash-from-jewish-groups\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We apologize to our employees, customers, and others for our initial plan to invite Linda Sarsour to speak at our internal event,&#8221; Geico said in a statement. &#8220;Geico does not condone hatred of any kind, and we do not stand for or with anyone who does.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company had invited Sarsour, who calls herself a pro-Palestinian activist, to speak at a &#8220;diversity event&#8221; for Middle Eastern North African Heritage Month.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden&#8217;s 2020 presidential campaign denounced Sarsour, who supports the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. She also has been affiliated with anti-Semitic extremist Louis Farrakhan and once participated in a conference call for his supporters. The left-wing Women&#8217;s March organization in 2019 forced Sarsour to step down from its board after facing pressure because of her anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>Sarsour has written that &#8220;nothing is creepier than Zionism,&#8221; expressed support for Palestinian terrorists, and compared Zionism to &#8220;white supremacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jewish groups blasted Geico for hosting Sarsour.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The far-left speaker&#8217;s &#8220;extensive record of trafficking in incendiary, anti-Semitic comments about the Jewish people and Israel makes her utterly unfit to be the face of Geico&#8217;s \u2018diversity and inclusion&#8217; campaign,&#8221; the American Jewish Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJCGlobal\/status\/1512045111399620610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News of Geico canceling the event comes on the same day two people were <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/at-least-2-dead-in-latest-tel-aviv-terrorist-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murdered<\/a> in the fourth terrorist attack to hit Tel Aviv in just over two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geico, the second-largest car insurance company in the United States, canceled an event with anti-Semitic activist Linda Sarsour after backlash from Jewish groups, the Times of Israel reported Thursday. &#8220;We<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}