Amanda Berman: Can progressives also be Zionists?
Amanda Berman, founder of the Zioness movement, discusses the opposition liberal Zionists have faced within the progressive movement, and how her new movement is working to change that.
Amanda Berman, founder of the Zioness movement, discusses the opposition liberal Zionists have faced within the progressive movement, and how her new movement is working to change that.
Starbucks caved to “homophobe-admiring activists” by demoting the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights organization, from leading anti-bias training sessions, Jewish progressive group Zioness claimed Tuesday. “What a painful irony that, in their attempt to combat racial stereotyping, Starbucks has given in to purveyors of other hatreds,” Zioness said in a statement released on Tuesday. …
Starbucks has officially dropped the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) from formulating their racial training program after facing pressure from leaders in the Women’s March. In a press release, the Zioness Movement criticized Starbucks for their decision. “What a painful irony that, in their attempt to combat racial stereotyping, Starbucks has given in to purveyors of other …
On Tuesday, Jewish progressives from the Zioness movement — which describes itself as “a coalition of activists and allies that express their Zionist and progressive values through collective action” — denounced Starbucks for “capitulating” to political pressure, pointing out as well that many of the ADL’s adversaries are linked to Louis Farrakhan’s antisemitic Nation of …
“A comparison of American law enforcement agents to the Gestapo – Nazi Germany’s genocidal secret police – would be repugnant in any context,” the group’s co-founder Amanda Berman told the Post. “For Speaker Gingrich to make such a comparison in the context of a raid that was nonviolent and, as far as we know, entirely …