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Zioness Statement on “Anti-Zionism” from CAIR’s Zahra Billoo

When you attack “Zionists,” you attack Jews. No matter your religion or ethnicity, if you claim that “anti-Zionism” is about Israeli policy, and not about Jewish identity, you are perpetuating one of the most dangerous and metastatic forms of hate the world has ever known. CAIR San Francisco leader Zahra Billoo has, over many years, …

Zioness Open Letter to Progressive Electeds: Disavow Sunrise Antisemitism, and Welcome Jews in Social Justice Spaces — Scroll down and Sign your Name!

Dear Congressmembers Bowman, Tlaib, Bush, Newman, Levin, Omar, Pressley, and Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Sanders, We write on behalf of tens of thousands of progressive American Jews who are deeply passionate about the fight for social, racial, economic, gender and environmental justice in America. We write to you specifically because you are endorsed by Sunrise Movement, …

Zioness Statement on U.S. Treatment of Haitian Refugees

Like all Americans of conscience, we are crushed and ashamed at the images and videos of Haitian refugees––hungry, exhausted, dehydrated, barefoot, desperate for a better future––being hunted and whipped by U.S. border agents under the Del Rio International Bridge. Weary children lay in the arms of their mothers and fathers as they sleep on cardboard, …

Zioness Statement on SCOTUS Refusal to Stop Texas Abortion Ban

Last night, an oppressive and blatantly unconstitutional Texas law went into effect that would ban nearly all abortions in that state. The Supreme Court refused to hear a plea to intervene and block the implementation of this law, despite its clear contravention of the constitutional standards dictated by Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. …

Zioness Statement on Chicago Dyke March

We have spent the last few days in conversation with our Chicago Zionesses and our LGBTQ+ partners to determine our response to the vile antisemitism that is apparently an animating force of this year’s Chicago Dyke March. Under some circumstances, confronting antisemitic imagery and language and exposing its dangerous implications is necessary to ensure that …

Statement from Zioness Founder on Palestinian/Israeli Hostilities

To our Zioness activists, our partners and allies, and our family and friends: This week has been the most vulnerable that I have ever felt as a white-presenting American Jew. I know it is an incredible privilege, to have felt so safe and accepted in America, both because of the history and reality of Jewish …