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Opinion: What kind of person is Zahra Billoo?

May 20, 2025 by Marin Leave a Comment

Sherman R. Frederick

Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive

You know you have a problem when a member of the California Civil Rights Board cheers on former President Joe Biden’s bone cancer diagnosis by saying she hopes it will be “as aggressive” as Israel’s military actions against Hamas. 

Then, she doubles down, and says she hopes President Donald Trump’s “time will come too.”

Meet Zahra Billoo, the executive director of CAIR’s San Francisco branch, and member of California’s Civil Rights Board. 

What kind of person says stuff like that? How can she exist in the Bay Area’s polite society with those kinds of thoughts? Gov. Gavin Newsom should condemn her rhetoric, fire her from any state position, and shun her and anyone who exhibits similar behavior. Anything less is condoning it.

(For more commentary from Sherman R. Frederick, go to shermanfrederick.substack.com.)

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