This is the Forward’s coverage of protests and demonstrations relating to Jewish issues.
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Fast Forward WATCH: Pennsylvania Man Defends Steelers Flag Painted With Swastika
A Pittsburgh man is defending the Steelers flag that he painted with a swastika in protest of the current wave of NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, WPXI reported. The news team was first contacted about the flag by neighbors too uncomfortable and scared to confront the man who created it. The man claims…
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Opinion No, It’s Not Anti-Semitic To Schedule Your March For Yom Kippur
When the Jewish community learned that the March for Racial Justice was scheduled for Yom Kippur (September 30), outraged responses filled social media. It was the immediate aftermath of Charlottesville, and we Jews had been made keenly aware that we, too, remain objects of hate by White Supremacists. It had been made clear that, like…
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Fast Forward Jewish ‘Adopt-a-Nazi’ Fundraiser Raises $85K Before San Francisco Rally
The Jewish Bar Association of San Francisco has raised more than $85,000 as part of an unusual fundraising campaign to combat a right-wing rally proposed for next weekend in San Franciaco. A GoFundMe campaign titled, mockingly, “Adopt-a-Nazi (Not Really)” aims to protest a gathering known as the “Patriot Prayer’s Freedom Rally San Francisco” by raising…
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Fast Forward “Zioness” Group Plans To March At Chicago SlutWalk
A group calling itself the “Zioness Movement” has announced it will be walking in the Chicago SlutWalk this Saturday. The group was formed this summer, after the SlutWalk announced a ban on Zionist and Jewish symbols at their march. The SlutWalk organizers retracted the ban in late July. “As Jews and Zionists, we seek justice…
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Opinion The Al Aqsa Protests Prove That Palestinian Nonviolence Has Arrived
My dream has always been to see my people in a mass movement of nonviolent resistance. I have spent most of my adult life making this appeal to my fellow Palestinians and building the relationships we need with the international bodies who can help us. And for one of the first times in my life,…
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News Iconic LGBTQ Synagogue Told Marchers To Avoid Israel ‘Messaging’ At Pride Parade
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the iconic Manhattan LGBTQ synagogue, instructed marchers joining it June 25 in the New York Pride Parade to avoid wearing clothing or carrying signs relating to the Jewish state or the Palestinians, the Forward has learned. A CBST rabbi asked in an email for the groups to ensure that their marchers…
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Community JVP: Reactions To Our Parade Protest Were ‘Cruel,’ ‘Homophobic,’ and ‘Hyperbolic’
The role of direct action in movements for justice has always been to agitate and provoke, to dramatize urgent issues and invite people to take a side. In fact, that was precisely our goal in organizing the waves of disruptions this past Sunday at the Celebrate Israel parade in New York City, the day before…
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Fast Forward Satmar Plan Anti-Zionist Rally At Brooklyn’s Barclays Center
The Satmar Hasidic group is planning an anti-Zionist rally on Sunday at the Barclays Center, the massive arena in the heart of Brooklyn that’s home to the Brooklyn Nets. The rally, organized by a Satmar-dominated rabbinical group called the Central Rabbinical Congress, will protest an Israeli law, passed in 2014, that limits exemptions from military…
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Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
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News How Mamdani built bridges to Jewish New Yorkers, from Williamsburg to Park Slope
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Fast Forward They rallied rabbis against Mamdani’s anti-Zionism. What does The Jewish Majority do next?
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Fast Forward Mamdani condemns swastika graffiti at Brooklyn yeshiva as ‘disgusting and heartbreaking’
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Fast Forward ADL launches ‘Mamdani monitor’ as Jewish groups retool for post-election advocacy
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