“…You’re holding a space for people and so are we,” said Amanda Berman, executive director of Zioness Movement, who helped organize supporters to march with the Jewish pride flag, as more people gathered around the central conversation to see what would happen. “And we are really excited to join you, in solidarity, with our Queer …
Other organizations joined the effort as well – the ADL wrote party leaders a strong letter strongly condemning the resolutions, Zioness launched an online petition, Progressive Zionists of California and Democrats for Israel – Los Angeles helped provide grassroots support, while Israel on Campus Coalition recruited additional organizers to help on convention weekend.
On the day of the event, a counterprotest was led by advocacy group Zioness. Other Jewish advocacy groups including A Wider Bridge and the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Greater Washington also participated. Zioness and other Jewish activists in the Washington DC area marched proudly with Jewish Pride flags. But of course, there was …
Zioness, a women’s group that demonstrates openly as pro-Israel activists in progressive spaces, will be organizing a contingent. “[T]here will always be individuals seeking to drive artificial wedges between coalitions of solidarity,” Zioness said in a statement co-signed by the Jewish Democratic Council of America and A Wider Bridge, an organization that supports Israel and …
“You are creating a binary in which the only way to be a dyke is to explicitly denounce the existence of the Jewish state, which is an important thing for most Jews, the vast majority of Jews in the world” said Amanda Berman, the founder of Zioness. “We support liberation for all dykes. You support …
