A year after millions turned out to protest the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, demonstrators flocked to the streets to participate in the second Women’s March, marking an end to a tumultuous first year in office.
As tens of thousands of people prepare to mark the first anniversary of the Women’s March with worldwide protests this weekend, one group will join the call for social justice with signs not often seen at progressive marches — ones displaying their “unquestionably Zionist” identity.
Zioness, a group of self-described progressive Zionists, is organizing delegations to attend marches in Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Sacramento.
With the second annual Women’s March scheduled for Jan. 20, the 5-month-old Zioness movement has rallied an impressive roster of national feminist leaders to bring progressive Zionists to marches around the country.
Salt and pepper, peanut butter and jelly, Zionism and progressivism. Few question the inherent, irrefutable bond between the first two of those pairs, but civil rights attorney and co-founder of the Zioness Movement, Amanda Berman, argues that the latter is just as natural—and she has several thousand left-leaning Jews with strong Zionist identities backing her …
