This is the Forward’s coverage of protests and demonstrations relating to Jewish issues.
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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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Opinion Forget The ‘Not My President’ Signs, Here’s The Right Way To Protest Trump
Dear friends posting social media screeds against Trump, This is my challenge to channel your anger, energy and intelligence into constructive actions that will actually make a difference. I understand that the election of Donald Trump represents a nightmare, and we’re trying to wake up from it. But angry posts, signs, and marches are the…
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Culture Nazi Punching: A (Short) Reading List
On April 15th, in Berkeley, we saw an increasingly familiar scene – violence at a political demonstration. At a “Patriots Day” rally, pro-Trump demonstrators, many of them self avowed fascists and Nazis, violently clashed with anti-fascist protestors (commonly referred to as “antifa”). Nazis were punched, Antifa members were punched, and less fringe commentators from each side…
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