“There are a few people who have been very effective in branding the left at shutting down free speech,<br />but the moment they are confronted with leftist speech they don’t like, they are equally outraged and poised to suppress that speech,” he said.<br />Ms. Sarsour wrote that the photo was “The definition of courage.”<br />Mr. Hikind said in a phone interview, “You can’t support a terrorist and then be the commencement speaker at a university that my taxes help pay for.”<br />His opposition drew a flurry of coverage in late April, as news<br />that Ms. Sarsour had been invited to speak spread among local news outlets, Jewish publications and the conservative media establishment.<br />But it is the commencement address she is to deliver next week to about 100 students at the City University of New York School of Public Health<br />that she says has drawn the most hostility and ire she has ever experienced.<br />It makes the person more well known and attracts more people to those ideas.”<br />The debate about Ms. Sarsour’s speech began last month with Dov Hikind, a conservative<br />Democratic state assemblyman who represents a largely Orthodox community in Brooklyn.
