Anti-Israel Muslim Councilwoman, Shahana Hanif, who has come under fire for blaming Israel for the October 7th Hamas terror attack, has been named co-chair of the City Council’s ‘Task Force to Combat Hate’

 Oh, this is rich! (barenakedislam.com)

:Shahana Hanif, 32, was one of 100 arrested for storming Bryant Park and blocking traffic at a pro-Hamas rally,  sponsored by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), where hostile demonstrators bellowed anti-Semitic chants and waved signs supporting the bloodthirsty Hamas terrorists.". . .

NY Post (h/t Marvin W) A socialist Brooklyn councilwoman who has blamed Israelis for instigating Hamas’ barbaric attacks on the Jewish state has been named co-chair of the new Task Force to Combat Hate. Shahana Hanif, the first Bangladeshi Muslim woman elected to the City Council, will oversee the six-member panel.

Hanif in April voted against a council resolution to establish an “End Jew Hatred Day” in New York City that overwhelmingly passed, saying that she opposed the End Jew Hatred movement because it was crafted by what she called “far-right” Republicans, with whom she refused to collaborate.

“Letting Shana Hanif co-chair an anti-hate task force is like letting Jamal Bowman run a congressional fire drill,” quipped Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, referring to the NYC congressman who infamously pulled a fire alarm in a Capitol Hill office building in September to delay a vote to avert a government shutdown.

"In October, she was among more than 100 protesters arrested at a pro-Palestinian rally in Bryant Park where hostile demonstrators bellowed antisemitic chants and waved signs supporting the bloodthirsty Hamas terrorists. Days earlier, she pointed blame at Israel for the death of its citizens.

"Failing to acknowledge that Israel evacuated all Jews from Gaza in 2005, Hanif claims:" . . .