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 …
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.”
