“You've probably seen that any visible Palestinian-American woman who is at the forefront of any social-justice movement is an immediate target of the right wing and right-wing Zionists. They will go to any extreme to criminalize us and to engage in alternative facts, to sew together a narrative that does not exist.”

American political activist

Linda Sarsour is an American political activist known for her leadership in the Women’s March movement. She was born in 1980 and has been a visible voice in activism around civic rights and public protest. She served as co-chair of the 2017 Women’s March, the 2017 Day Without a Woman, and the 2019 Women’s March. She also served as executive director of the Arab American Association of New York. In 2017, she and her fellow Women’s March co-chairs were featured in Time 100.