Bigotry comes in many shades. Heck, it can come rainbow-colored.
Participants of the 21st annual Chicago Dyke March, a parade geared towards members of the city’s lesbian community, found themselves on Saturday at the center of controversy.
The Dyke March was founded by a collective that billed the event as more inclusive and social justice-oriented than the more well-known and mainstream Chicago Pride Parade.
However, three Jewish members of the collective were not to be included in Saturday’s festivities.
Jewish Pride flags — with a Star of David in the center of the rainbow flag — are a common sight at Pride events around the world, so the members were likely not trying to cause a scene when they brought them to the march.
According to a report in The Windy City Times, the three members were told to leave the parade because the flags “made people feel unsafe” and that the Dyke March was a “anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian” space.
The expelled Jewish members said that “there’s nothing offensive about this flag. It’s a statement of Jewish identity.”
“It was a flag from my congregation which celebrates my queer, Jewish identity which I have done for over a decade marching in the Dyke March with the same flag,” Laurel Grauer, one of the participants, told the publication.
Grauer, who was asked by other marchers if she was a Zionist while holding the flag, further stated, “It’s hard to swallow the idea of inclusion when you are excluding people from that. People are saying ‘You can be gay but not in this way.’ We do not feel welcomed. We do not feel included.”
“I was here as a proud Jew in all of my identities,” Eleanor Shoshany-Anderson, another participant who was kicked out, said. “The Dyke March is supposed to be intersectional. I don’t know why my identity is excluded from that. I feel that, as a Jew, I am not welcome here.”
This has the fingerprints of Linda Sarsour all over it – she who claimed you cannot be a Zionist and a feminist. These dykes are saying you cannot be a Zionist and part of their movement.
Except what they are really saying is you cannot be a proud Jew and part of their movement. – the Star of David is a Jewish symbol, not just a symbol of Israel, after all. Which makes them antisemites.
Actually, I will invoke Sarsour’s (hypocritical) words in constructing a message to these women.
Update: Plenty of palestinian flags there.
Note this sign:
I guess antisemitism doesn’t count.
The Nazis forced the Jews to wear the Star of David (before the modern State of Israel existed) in preparation for sending them to their death. These anti-Semites forced the Jews to remove the Star of David
What you told is uncomplete : We, Jews, were often wearing our magen David in a necklace, but the Nazis wanted us to wear the yellow star which is the specific magen David yellow with Jude written on it, the nazis wanted us to wear on our clothes for us to be recognizable… It wasn’t just a magen David, it was a specific nazi-made magen David for the Jews.
It is like the swastika… The english language indistinctly talk about the swastika, whether or not it is the indian one or nazi one… In france we talk about the “croix gamée” to make the difference with the pacific and positive message of the Indian swastika.
The nazis stole that symbol to create the absolute nightmare.
Not every country had the word Jude in the patch, here is an example
True ! It’s specific to the nazi system !
That’s the problem with “symbols”. They get their meanings crossed.
Yep, but we can name them differently, because they don’t fit the same ideology
Jewish sodomites are rejected by Jew-hating sodomites.
Interesting. You can leave Torah values behind you but others will never let you forget you’re a Jew – as this event revealed.
Jewish self-hatred will never result in Jews being liked and accepted by others.
………try as they might.
so when are they marching in the next dyke parade in ramallah
This makes no sense,gays have more rights in Israel than any Islamic country..
Even gay Palestinians.
masochism plus their mental issues.
The LGBT community (as a group and as individuals) should be confronted at every opportunity with evidence of how their community is treated by Palestinians and in the various Muslim countries with which they appear to identify. They need to be shown films of people suspected of being gay thrown head-first from roofs of high-rise buildings (in Gaza), hung from tall construction cranes (in Iran) and beheaded on public street corners (in Saudia Arabia.) They should be asked to explain how they can justify such barbarity while vilifying the only Middle Eastern nation where openly LGBT people live in safety and equality.
Which they will instantly and self righteously dismiss as “Zionist propaganda”.
and “pinkwashing”.
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Good.
I love when snowflakes get mugged by reality, and get banished from the leftist reservation.
It’s the only thing the gets them truly “woke”.
Chicago has a lot of Slavs therefore has a lot of alt right alt left. The left and the right are being taken over by the least worthy and most evil done by Wikipedia and News Corp liars, and the Slav alt right, and Islam. Islam is only a persecuted group because it has a lot of people who arn’t yet anti left, a mob.
“The Dyke March is supposed to be intersectional.” That it is. As a smarty-pants in the comments at Instapundit, callsign watchwinder, once brilliantly put it, most accidents happen at intersections, usually when someone is turning Left.
I really appreciate you covering Chicago and I am very pleased this story went international. There is no civil rights movement that can be successful and suffer bigotry against Jews and Judaism. What I get from antisemitism is that Linda Sarsour cannot be a feminist and is contributing to the self destruction of the left.
Nadiya Al-Noor came with a different rainbow flag than the one with a Mogan David, she came with a crescent and star and described herself as a Zionist who said her flag should be banned as well unless the leaders of the march are motivated by antisemitism. This blog has been fantastic when it comes to pointing out philoSemites and unexpected Zionists so if you missed Nadiya’s positive involvement I wanted to share it with you. Here is a link to her facebook page where she gives her take on the march: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207728495205271&set=a.1253709557749.29754.1679859408&type=3
Keep up the great work!