Carly Pildis is a progressive activist and writer who frequently speaks out about anti-Semitism on the left as well as the depredations of the right. Every day, she says, she gets messages from American Jewish women who tell her they’re scared of expressing their support for Israel, or even their Jewish identities, in progressive spaces….
Updated, 2:20 p.m. Jewish feminist and LGBTQ groups plan to join the D.C. Dyke March in Washington on Friday, with many members expected to bring “Jewish Pride” flags — featuring a Star of David prominently in the middle — despite the march’s ban on images that are reminiscent of the Israeli flag. The march, a…
Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr says that participating in the first Women’s March in 2017 was “one of the most uplifting, powerful moments of my life. It was just an incredible experience.” That moment is over. Schorr feels anti-Semitism has tainted the march. “I can’t in good conscience say that I support a movement or feel…
A South African musician whose face was used in the logo of the Zioness Movement, a Zionist-feminist grassroots group, said on Twitter on Monday that she had nothing to do with the movement. I am in no way affiliated with the Zioness movement. At all. https://t.co/2lcmvps4e7 — DOPESAINTJUDE (@DopeSaintJude) January 22, 2018 “I’m just a…
You know a three-month old movement is doing something right when it’s been maligned by both neo-Nazis and far-left anti-Semites. Since we launched in mid-August in response to the explicit exclusion of Zionist progressives from social justice movements, Zioness has been hit from all sides. At the Chicago Dyke March, our maiden voyage, we marched…
Dear Editor, The religion I grew up with always included “Next year in Jerusalem” in EVERY Sabbath service. EVERY SINGLE ONE. The idea that Zioness could be threatening to anyone is absurd and misogynistic. If Linda Sarsour felt threatened it is her own paranoia, especially since she is a supporter of Sharia law which is…
Members of the nascent Jewish organization arrived at the racial justice rally with posters and T-shirts bearing the group’s name and logo, tailed by a friend with a video camera and a security guard. They were not a welcome sight to the longtime social justice leaders in the crowd — especially the Jewish ones. Calling…
On August 12, Alt-Right bigots, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis marched the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia to “end Jewish influence in America,” simultaneously threatening other minority groups in a horrifying display of perverse and profound evil. The anti-Semitism was unmistakable. On the same day, nearly 800 miles away, on a sunny afternoon in Chicago, a group of…
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