Jewish lesbians kicked out of Chicago Dyke March because they carried a 'Star of David' Pride flag

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On June 24, some 1,500 people joined the Chicago Dyke March, in what seemed like a utopia of acceptance and respect for people of all orientations, races, nationalities and backgrounds — or it almost was...

Then, organizers “ejected three people carrying Jewish Pride flags.â€

Before she was singled out and, according to her, shouted over, cursed at, interrogated, and ultimately forced out by organizers for carrying a rainbow flag with a Star of David against a rainbow background, Eleanor Shoshany Anderson had adored the annual Chicago Dyke March...

When Anderson first arrived at the starting point for the march with her flag, a person in an organizer’s t-shirt questioned her, saying, “We don’t allow imperialist flags. Is that an Israeli flag?â€

Anderson said, “I was taken aback for sure, but I said, ‘No, this is a Jewish pride flag. This is the Star of David.’ She [the organizer]  said ‘okay’ and walked away. That certainly gave me some pause but I marched — and the march itself was without incident.â€

After the march, in the gathering area for the rally and community picnic at Piotrowski Park, Anderson walked over to Laurie Grauer, another marcher with a Jewish pride flag with whom she attended the march.

Then they were “accosted†by two people, one carrying a Palestinian flag and the other wearing clothes with Palestinian flag patches, according to Anderson, yelling “How dare you carry an Israeli flag.â€

“I started to explain, ‘No, this is a Jewish pride flag. This is the Star of David,’†Anderson said. “But they really were not interested in hearing it. They were swearing. They were talking over us.â€

 

“I just said, ‘I’m here as a Jew. I’m here as a Jew.’’

At this point, Anderson said people were shouting over them, and she walked away. Then she got a call from Grauer saying she had been kicked out. “I was standing in the middle of the park, and I felt scared to move. I felt if I moved at all, the people would see my flag and they would find me and kick me out, too.â€

Anderson found Grauer near the edge of the park, crying. According to Anderson, shortly thereafter, an organizer who identified herself as “a Jewish person who had been sent by the organizers to speak with us about our flags,†approached her.

She told Anderson, “Your flag looks too much like Israeli flags because of the star, and that it is triggering to people and it makes them feel unsafe.â€

 

“They [organizers] just kept stating over and over again ‘This is unacceptable. This is too triggering,†Anderson said. “More people came over. I felt very out-numbered, and they were talking over me. It was clear that this was something that was unwinnable, and I left. Or, more accurately, they drove me out.â€

 

Since the incident the organizers have issued two statements.

The first statement was posted on June 25. It reads: “Sadly, our celebration of dyke, queer, and trans solidarity was partially overshadowed by our decision to ask three individuals carrying Israeli flags superimposed on rainbow flags to leave the rally. The decision was made after they repeatedly expressed support for Zionism during conversations with Chicago Dyke Mark [sic] Collective members.â€

Anderson repeatedly stressed she did not discuss her views on Israel — and she and Grauer have repeatedly said they explained they were showing Jewish pride, rather than Israel or Zionist pride.

Grauer said when Dyke March participants began interrogating her about her views on Israel, she said she was a Zionist who supported both Israeli and Palestinian statehood. She said they responded, “‘No, you can’t believe both ways.’â€

In the second statement, which was released on June 27, the Chicago Dyke March accused the women of disrupting the march’s chants and specifically “replacing the word ‘Palestine’ with “everywhere,†saying: “From everywhere to Mexico, border walls have got to go.â€

Anderson and Grauer have adamantly denied this allegation. Overall, Anderson said the two statements from the Chicago Dyke March organizers were  â€œinflammatory and inaccurate.â€

The second statement focused on stressing that the Chicago Dyke March was explicitly “anti-Zionist†and stated “Zionism is an inherently white-supremacist ideology.†

 

What happened at the Dyke March in Chicago was like a strawman demonstration of anti-Semitism.

It centered on Jews displaying a Star of David. It is the same star that was in the background of one of Donald Trump’s asinine tweets about Hillary Clinton’s ties to Wall Street — which people, especially on the left, were quick to point out as anti-Semitic last year. It is also the same star Hitler forced the ill-fated Jews under his Nazi empire to wear.

(For a full explanation of why the Chicago Dyke March’s response was anti-Semitic, I recommend reading Yair Rosenberg’s piece in Tablet and at the very least, consider this small pearl of wisdom:  â€œIf one of Judaism’s classic symbols makes you feel ‘threatened,’ the problem is with you, not the symbol.â€)

Now, liberal, progressive Jews, like myself, must reconcile with what it means when groups where we thought we were welcomed are actually hostile to displays of Jewishness.

 

“Some Jews who were there said that they felt comfortable. The big difference is all of the people that I have seen make these statements were known anti-Zionists,†she said. “I am not known by the community on that policy, one way or the other. I wasn’t willing to submit to their test. I felt I should be able to be there as a Jew without being the ‘right’ kind of Jew. That is why I was kicked out.â€

 

Full story at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/we-were-kicked-off-chicagos-dyke-march-for-not-being-the-right-kind-of-jew

[Neoui Oppa]

I hate sjws

[RETIRED WAIFU]

The Dyke March is a joke.

 

It's for literally everyone but lesbians.

[Jiraishin]

One only needs to google what Zionism is in order to understand the absurdity in how people treat this word and compare it to Nazism or Racism. Not to mention how Palestinians basically hijacked the ideas of Zionism and simply made them their own, repeating the same narrative only with connection to Palestine and Palestinian people - and people have no problem with that, ignorance in its finest.

 

The fact that people are triggered by a freaking Star of David shows how deep the brainwashing has gotten. No one was triggered by Palestinian flags patches? No one was triggered by the fact that it's a March of homosexuals? And why shouldn't those who are triggered and can't control their saliva from flying everywhere be the ones who're kicked out? Why is it always the peaceful ones that need to be banned for the wild crowd not to bare its fangs? Pure hatred, that's all.

 

Nothing's new under the sun. This generation needs a reality check.

[pandabear]

I hate sjws

Who are the sjws here? The dyke marchers clearly aren't since they are discriminating rather than being overly aggressive on social issues.

[orphan]

Zionism is an inherently white-supremacist ideology.

 

^I don't think so....

[timpa]

I dont get why a Jewish gay pride flag would be excluded, but other ethnic/national gay pride flags be allowed.

 

Either ban all or accept all.

[Sasshi]

Good times to be Jewish the right going on about Jewish conspiracies and the left always excluding Jewish people when Jewish people inconvenience them

[MasterOfCider]

I dont get why a Jewish gay pride flag would be excluded, but other ethnic/national gay pride flags be allowed.

 

Either ban all or accept all.

[Green Willow]

I dont get why a Jewish gay pride flag would be excluded, but other ethnic/national gay pride flags be allowed.

Either ban all or accept all.

reminds me of this:

 

  

I hate sjws

too bad this site has the same lowkey lurkers here.