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Zahra Billoo speaks at the Jan. 2018 Women's March in San Francisco. (Photo/Wikimedia-Pax Ahimsa Gethen CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Myopia on race; Zahra Billoo was wronged; Can’t stop Russia

by J. Readers March 7, 2022

Different narratives on oppression It is good that Whoopi Goldberg is back on “The View” from her “time out” for expressing her opinion that Nazis and Jews were both white, […]

Zahra Billoo speaks at the Jan. 2018 Women's March in San Francisco. (Photo/Wikimedia-Pax Ahimsa Gethen CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Zahra Billoo removed as keynote speaker at San Mateo women’s conference

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss February 10, 2022February 10, 2022
In a recent episode of the 11th season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," Larry David feels obligated to clean a Klansman's robe. (Photo/John P. Johnson-HBO)
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Stanford Jewish quota; Zoom accessibility; Larry David’s Holocaust shoes; etc.

by J. Readers January 21, 2022January 21, 2022
Smile aside, Emma Goss was disappointed by the "Hanukkah Lights" night at Filoli House and Gardens in Woodside.
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No to ‘assimilated’ Hanukkah; Billoo isn’t antisemitic; etc.

by J. Readers December 22, 2021December 23, 2021
Civil rights attorney Zahra Billoo (Photo/JTA)
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Muslim civil rights leader says she is target of ‘prolonged Zionist onslaught’ as she goes on sabbatical

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 21, 2021December 21, 2021
Anti-Defamation CEO Jonathan Greenblatt (left) and Zahra Billoo, executive director of the San Francisco chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations. (Photos/File)
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ADL spars with CAIR over local Muslim leader’s remarks on ‘polite Zionists’

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 13, 2021December 13, 2021
Zahra Billoo, executive director of the San Francisco chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, speaks outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, April 2018. (Photo/Flickr-Lorie Shaull CC BY 2.0)
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Prominent S.F. Muslim leader Zahra Billoo draws rebukes after warning about ‘polite Zionists’

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