“The Dyke March is supposed to be intersectional. “I was here as a proud Jew in all of my identities,” she proclaimed. We do not feel included.”Īnother attendee also claimed that they felt excluded from the march because of their Jewish identity.
People are saying ‘You can be gay but not in this way.’ We do not feel welcomed. “It’s hard to swallow the idea of inclusion when you are excluding people from that.
“People asked me if I was a Zionist and I said ‘yes, I do care about the state of Israel but I also believe in a two-state solution and an independent Palestine,'” the attendee concluded. “Prior to this I had never been harassed or asked to leave and I had always carried the flag with me.” “They were telling me to leave because my flag was a trigger to people that they found offensive,” she continued. “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,” said one woman who was made to leave the march for carrying the flag, adding that numerous other attendees harassed her, according to the Windy City Press. According to the left-wing Israeli daily Ha’aretz, the flags, which featured the Star of David over the LGBT rainbow, allegedly “made people feel unsafe,” and upset attendees who claimed that the march was “anti-Zionist,” and “pro-Palestinian.”
