Tag: Women’s March
Can Jews remain in coalitions with radical race-baiters?
In theory, a planned “Virtual March on Washington” should have united the country behind the idea of racial healing. The march was intended to commemorate the historic 1963 event best remembered for Dr. Martin...
Banner held at Women’s March in Chicago featured PFLP terrorist, hijacker
A group participating in the Women’s March in Chicago on Saturday held a banner featuring a member of the U.S.-designated terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who was involved in the hijacking...
Anti-Israel group Code Pink listed as co-creator of annual Women’s March
The anti-Israel group Code Pink is listed as a co-creator for the annual Women’s March in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 18.
The anti-war group, which was a partner of the 2019 march, was founded in 2002 by...
Women’s March drops Zahra Billoo from board after outcry over anti-Semitism
Amid an outcry over anti-Semitic and anti-Israel tweets made by Zahra Billoo, the Women’s March reportedly voted to drop her from the board of the women’s rights group just days after her appointment.
Billoo was...
Women’s March cuts ties with three co-founders accused of anti-Semitism
The Women’s March has cut ties with three of its founders who have been accused of anti-Semitism.
Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory and Bob Blandstepped down from the board on July 15, reported The Washington Post on Monday.
The movement told the...
The ‘first Jewish’ president’s anti-Semitic surrogate
Will Bernie Sanders be America’s first Jewish president? That’s up to Democratic primary voters and then the rest of the electorate should he receive his party’s nomination. But the Vermont senator’s choice of a...
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Why I refused to march
Like so many other Jewish women, I grappled over and over again with the decision to attend the Women’s March on Jan. 19. I missed the first march because I was recovering from childbirth,...
The high price of ‘unity’ in the anti-Trump resistance
It ought to be possible to dislike and even fervently oppose U.S. President Donald Trump without having to associate with supporters of hatemongers like the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan. Nor should it be...
New York Reform synagogue distances itself from Women’s March leadership
The Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City announced last week it has disassociated from the Women’s March amid accusations of anti-Semitism against a few of the movement’s leaders such as their association with Nation...
Jewish groups and activists disavow anti-Semitism of Women’s March leadership
Ever since it took the nation by storm, a dark cloud has been hanging over the Women’s March concerning its leadership’s associations with controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, anti-Semitism, and other troubling...