Liberals have a major Alt-Left anti-Semitism problem that they aren't dealing with. The latest manifestation is the ban of Jewish symbols from Alt-Left events. We've seen this happen on campuses before. But now it's moving to Alt-Left rallies and intersectional events.
The first major story broke with the Dyke March in Chicago. The Dyke March banned Jewish women who were holding up gay pride flags with a Star of David on them. Effectively banning Jews. On Twitter, the Dyke March doubled down by using an anti-Semitic slur. And got the reporter who broke the story fired.
Now Slutwalk Chicago is following in their proud footsteps.
The ban was announced this week on social media by the organizers of SlutWalk Chicago — part of an international protest movement that “fights rape culture, victim blaming, and slut shaming.” The Chicago event is set to take place on August 12.
“We still stand behind Dyke March Chicago’s decision to remove the Zionist contingent from their event, & we won’t allow Zionist displays at ours,” the organizers tweeted last Sunday — beginning several days of exchanges with other users over the policy. These were distinguished by the organizers’ continued insistence that anti-Zionism is a legitimate progressive belief, and that any linkage with antisemitism should be dismissed as a discrediting tactic.
In one exchange defending the Dyke March decision to exclude the Jewish women, the SlutWalk organizers aggressively justified the action, declaring: “They were kicked out after a discussion where they made their Zionist beliefs known and refused to back down.”
The Star of David flag was banned, they continued, “because its connections to the oppression enacted by Israel is too strong for it to be neutral & IN CONTEXT it was used as a Zionist symbol.”
The Star of David is the essential Jewish symbol. If you ban that, you ban Jews.
When various parades attempted to ban gay participants, a great deal of pressure and negative coverage came their way. Now we have Alt-Left rallies that ban Jews with little media attention or interest.
This follows Linda Sarsour's declaration that Jews who are part of the Jewish people were not allowed to be feminists.
Liberals briefly pretended to care about anti-Semitism earlier this year. But not when their Alt-Left allies are the ones practicing it.