But the bearers said it symbolized their Judaism and their lesbian pride, not a jingoistic pride in Israel. The flag was a Gay Pride flag with a Star of David, not an Israeli flag, though you could, I suppose, say that it was a “pinkwashed” Israeli flag. Sadly, I read this as anti-Semitism on the part of the gay and lesbian community. Further, the flagbearers weren’t Israeli, but Americans and Iranians! But that’s just a cover for the anti-Semitism implicit (and explicit) in “anti-Zionism”. What a crock! Can you actually believe those people who found a gay pride flag with a Star of David “triggering” or, worse, “made them feel unsafe”? That’s crap, of course: the reason the flagbearers were asked to leave is because Israel is demonized as an “apartheid state” by many on the Ctrl-Left. However, social media posts in support of their decision claimed that a rainbow flag with a Star of David is a form of pink washing (a theory postulated by a City University of New York professor which claims that Israeli support of LGBTQ communities is designed to detract attention from civil and human rights abuses of Palestinian people.) I fell that, as a Jew, I am not welcome here.”Īs of time of midnight Saturday, Windy City Times received no official statement from Dyke March organizers. I don’t know why my identity is excluded from that.
“The Dyke March is supposed to be intersectional.
“I was here as a proud Jew in all of my identities,” Shoshany-Anderson asserted. “Prior to this I had never been harassed or asked to leave and I had always carried the flag with me.”Īnother of those individuals asked to leave was an Iranian Jew Eleanor Shoshany-Anderson. “They were telling me to leave because my flag was a trigger to people that they found offensive,” Grauer said. One Dyke March collective member asked by Windy City Times for a response, said the women were told to leave because the flags “made people feel unsafe,” that the march was “anti-Zionist” and “pro-Palestinian.” She added that she lost count of the number of people who harassed her. “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,” she told Windy City Times. asked to leave by Collective members of the Dyke march were three people carrying Jewish Pride flags (a rainbow flag with a Star of David in the center).Īccording to one of those individuals-A Wider Bridge Midwest Manager Laurel Grauer-she and her friends were approached a number of times in the park because they were holding the flag. What went down? Let the Jewish lesbians speak, as reported in Windy City Media: (These pictures are from the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv photos by Jack Guez): It’s basically the Gay Pride flag with a star of David on it, a symbol of Judaism.
Here, from Pink News, is what the Jewish Pride flag looks like. Why? Because the flag “triggered” some of the participants, and apparently because some participants considered the march implicitly “anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian”. I am deeply ashamed of Chicago’s gay community today.įrom both the left-wing Israel paper Haaretz and the Windy City Media Group, we get a disturbing report: at yesterday’s “Dyke March” in Chicago, a parade celebrating lesbian and LGBT pride and achievements, Jewish lesbians carrying the “Jewish pride” flag were asked to leave.