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What a difference a week makes! Not only in my personal life (I just got married over the weekend and am about to leave for my honeymoon in a few hours – and yes, I am taking the time to blog anyway!), but in the world around us as well.
In my blog last week,, I wrote that we should not boycott Ben & Jerry’s, but try to educate and that instead of boycotting the Women’s March, we should push the other organizers to remove Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory from their board. I posited that unlike Black Lives Matter, the Women’s March’s platform does not take an anti-Israel position; I also noted that each cause, if not tainted by the anti-Semitic aspect, would otherwise be ones that Jews would typically support and it adds to the divisiveness to position ourselves as opposing good causes. But what a difference a week makes!
In the past week, Alyssa Milano pointed out that which Israel supporters have long known — that intersectionality for everyone except those who support Israel is wrong. She has called on Sarsour and Mallory to disavow Louise Farrakhan, and in the absence of that, will not speak at the next Women’s March.
(This great story from intimates that she won’t speak as long as the two are still running the Women’s March, but it is not clear that that is the case). Ali 3328 editor. “Any time that there is bigotry or anti-Semitism in that respect, it needs to be called out and addressed. I’m disappointed in the leadership of the Women’s March that they haven’t done it adequately.” It is a major step forward. It acknowledges the hypocrisy in the movement; Farrakhan spews anti-Semitic, homophobic and transphobic hate and two of their leaders vocally stand with him. Alyssa Milano is a respected activist, and with her, the ball started rolling, ever so slowly. A hashtag,, began, but it is no #metoo. I wish it would pick up more steam, because it speaks to the larger concept that discrimination against some is allowed and that intolerance should not be tolerated.
Still, the New York Post’s editorial board came out in support of her decision in. And Debra Messing has also as well, though a quick online search shows coverage in the Jewish press and the far right press without needed mainstream notice. This past Thursday, because of its leaders embrace of Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement.
“We believe that the Women’s March USA does not meet the criteria of this award, as its organizers have repeatedly attracted attention through antisemitic statements, the trivialization of antisemitism and the exclusion of Zionists and Jews since Women’s March USA’s establishment in 2017. Women’s March USA does not constitute an inclusive alliance,” they wrote. “An organization that may support feminism, but discriminates against Jews and Zionists and denies Israel’s right to exist should not be honored by a democratic foundation that advocates diversity and speaks out against discrimination.” This is the bigger issue. Not the association with Farrakhan and his hatemongering, though that is emblematic. But that two of the Women’s March’s board members, the Black Lives Matter’s platform (see under ), eight Jewish group which support Women’s March (per by fellow TOI blogger Joe Duenas) and other far left Jewish groups like support a movement which. BDS’s kind of hostage holding is anathema to a two-sided negotiation between the parties.