Thanks for writing this. I was horribly shocked and dismayed several years ago when a Jewish group marched for LGBTQ rights and the organizers asked them to take down the Israeli flag and claimed that we were "pink washing" Zionism. The degree of antisemitism shrouded under the guise of opposition to Israel combined with a misunderstanding of our past and what Zionism meant angers and saddens me. I have come to find that although most members of the Jewish Community support equal rights for women, minorities and LGBTQ community, that the members of many of those groups do not return the support. I am sure, given what you have gone through, that the isolation you have felt is 10 times what I feel.
Isn’t it funny how many people found their Zionism because of Corbynism? Well said Eve x
Thanks for writing this. I was horribly shocked and dismayed several years ago when a Jewish group marched for LGBTQ rights and the organizers asked them to take down the Israeli flag and claimed that we were "pink washing" Zionism. The degree of antisemitism shrouded under the guise of opposition to Israel combined with a misunderstanding of our past and what Zionism meant angers and saddens me. I have come to find that although most members of the Jewish Community support equal rights for women, minorities and LGBTQ community, that the members of many of those groups do not return the support. I am sure, given what you have gone through, that the isolation you have felt is 10 times what I feel.