(Jewish Group) The Chicago Dyke March: The Ugly Intersection Of Progressivism And Anti-Semitism

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4. And check out the flags

Screen capture of photo accompanying Dyke March Chicago’s statement justifying its expulsion of Jewish marchers.


(In a textbook example of what we may call “Jew-washing,” the attempt to remove the moral stain of anti-Semitism through tokenism, Dyke March Chicago placed a statement on their Facebook page from an anti-Zionist Jew. The statement read, in part, “I was at Dyke march yesterday and I am an white american (sic) queer disabled Jew. I was welcomed and affirmed there. I am also anti-Zionist…”)

Dyke march Chicago also posted a photo with their statement rationalizing their exclusion of Jews. It shows a group of people holding the flags of various non-democratic Muslim-majority regimes with homophobic laws they enforce. There is Turkey, for instance, which just a few days ago cancelled the Pride Parade in Istanbul. There are also Mauritania and Egypt, which both outlaw same-sex relations. Amazingly, the people in the photo are even holding the flag of Assad’s Syria, whose regime is responsible for the deaths of nearly a half-million people in the civil war and whose main regional ally is Iran, which publicly hangs gay men from cranes.

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-dykes-ban-jews/