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Home Front: Culture Wars
3 made to leave Chicago LGBT march over ‘triggering’ Star of David flags
2017-06-26
Linda Sarsour, one of the organizers of the anti-Trump "pussy march", made it clear in the days following the inauguration that those who are pro-choice or pro-Israel cannot be members of the Progressive left because intersectionality.
[IsraelTimes] Organizers of ’anti-Zionist’ event say rainbow banners held by Jewish participants ’made people feel unsafe’.

A parade in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
 celebrating the lesbian community banned three Jewish women carrying Jewish Pride flags.

Organizers of the 21st annual Chicago Dyke March told the women that the rainbow flags with a white Star of David in the center would be a trigger to people who found it offensive.

A Dyke March collective member told the Windy City Times that the women were told to leave because the flags "made people feel unsafe," and that the march was "anti-Zionist" and "pro-Paleostinian."

More than 1,500 LGBTQ individuals and their supporters participated in Saturday’s march. The march was protested at one point by Christian bad boys, according to the Windy City Times.

One of the Jewish marchers, Laurel Grauer, Midwest manager of A Wider Bridge, a group that forges ties between LGBT Jews in Israel and North America, told the publication that she has carried her Jewish Pride flag in the same parade for more than a decade, and said that it "celebrates my queer, Jewish identity." She also said she lost count of the number of people who harassed her over the flag on Saturday.

"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 Paleostine,’" Grauer said. "It’s hard to swallow the idea of inclusion when you are excluding people from that. People are saying ’You can be gay, but not in this way.’ We do not feel welcomed. We do not feel included."
That is because you were summarily expelled, my dear. This is not about feelings, but about that single fact.
Update from Ynet at 3:45:
National Director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League Jonathan Greenblatt called on reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown LGBTQ March organizers to apologize after Jewish participants were ejected from the march for carrying rainbow flags emblazoned with the Jewish Star of David.
A quixotic demand. After all, they still won't get to march with the others.
"It is outrageous that while celebrating LGBTQ pride, Jewish participants carrying a rainbow Star of David flag were asked to leave the Chicago Dyke March. The community of LGBTQ supporters is diverse and that is part of its tremendous strength," said Greenblatt. "Both the act and the explanation were anti-Semitic, plain and simple.
Yes. Intentionally so.
"We stand with A Wider Bridge and others in demanding an apology. We appreciate the Human Rights Campaign’s support and we call on other leaders from LGBTQ and progressive communities to join us in condemning this exclusion."
Perhaps by underlining this other Jewish progressives will start to notice how entirely unwanted they are by those who otherwise share the same objectives.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  So Juice cooties is still a thing. Who knew?

As to CF's comment #1, this is an instance of SteveS' Theorem:
For any two warring parties, A and B, there is a third party C that A and B hate even more and will join forces to fight against.

In this case, we have A = LGBTQWERTY, B = Muslims, C = Juice (or more generically, Western Civ)

See the Turkish police disperse Gay Pride march article for a situation where parties A and B indulge their inherent B-ness and A-ness.

Posted by: SteveS   2017-06-26 20:29  

#6  Yea Borgboy, nothing says American liberalism like revenge against Judeo Christian ethics... Sarcasm off.
Posted by: Herman Glavinter1807   2017-06-26 18:47  

#5  Chickens coming home to roost - sorry, no sympathy here.
Posted by: borgboy   2017-06-26 13:13  

#4  Ain't inclusiveness grand?
Posted by: Crusader   2017-06-26 12:11  

#3  Maybe they can march if they pin yellow stars to their shirts?
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-06-26 10:00  

#2  If you needed clues of that these organizations are all about.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-06-26 02:43  

#1  Its ironic that the LGBT community prefers Islamics, who like to throw homosexuals off tall buildings or yank them up with cranes by their necks; over Jews, who do not.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-06-26 00:40  

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