The group holding the flags included representatives of Zioness, a women’s group that demonstrates openly as pro-Israel activists in progressive spaces, A Wider Bridge, a pro-Israel LGBTQ group, and the local Jewish Community Relations Council. “You are creating a binary in which the only way to be a dyke is to explicitly denounce the existence …
Pro-Zionist Democrats were not willing to wait and see if that was true. Members of PZC, the women’s group Zioness (“Unabashedly Progressive, Unquestionably Zionist” is one of their slogans) and others attended various committee meetings, ready to speak up.
Federation officials also joined with other Jewish organizations including A Wider Bridge, the JCRC of Greater Washington and Zioness to urge the DC Dyke March leadership “to immediately reverse course on this important matter.”
Campbell, along with A Wider Bridge, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, and Zioness, condemned the D.C. Dyke March for singling out Israel in a signed statement. “The DC Dyke March should know better than to stoke the flames of division and pain by driving a wedge between Queer Arabs and Jews at …
Yet Jewish LGBTQ groups and those that work with them said that organizers were explicitly told that only the Israeli flag is banned, with all other flags permitted. Amanda Berman, executive director of Zioness, a progressive Zionist group, said the D.C. Dyke March is “singling out Israel and marginalizing and attacking and demonizing Israel in …
