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 …
Zioness CEO Amanda Berman explains, “I have news for the neo-Nazis and the far-left anti-Semites: We are loud, proud, and sincere. We are growing every day, and we are here to stay.”
A Change.org petition objecting to the panel, which the progressive Zionist organization Zioness organized, currently has over 11,600 signatures.
Critics of the Nov. 28 event, which is titled “Anti-Semitism and the Struggle for Justice,” also say it is meant to justify anti-Zionism on the left, and not address the full range of threats facing Jews from the left and the right.
