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Women’s March Loses Human Rights Award Due To Rampant Anti-Semitism
The Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES, because in German it’s known as Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung), a German think tank for its social democratic party, was slated to award the Women’s March with its Human Rights Award on Nov. 12, but has now withdrawn the group’s nomination, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Members from one of FES’s working groups, Critique of Anti-Semitism and Jewish Studies, penned a public letter denouncing the Women’s March’s anti-Semitism and support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.
“We believe that the Women’s March USA does not meet the criteria of this award, as its organizers have repeatedly attracted attention through antisemitic statements, the trivialization of antisemitism and the exclusion of Zionists and Jews since Women’s March USA’s establishment in 2017. Women’s March USA does not constitute an inclusive alliance,” the members wrote.
The members then lay out some examples of anti-Semitism from Women’s March board member Linda Sarsour, who said feminists could not also be Zionists and that Zionists were Nazis. Sarsour also supports the BDS movement and has called Israel an apartheid state. Sarsour, along with Carmen Perez and Tamika D. Mallory, have also supported anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, who has compared Jews to termites.
With the likes of Sarsour in control and associates of Farrakhan, this should come as no surprise. What I don't understand, is why women buy into an organization that espouses these types of views? Ironically, the left is always calling people on the right "Nazis" when it is the left that is involved in anti-Semitic actions, views and speech.
The Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES, because in German it’s known as Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung), a German think tank for its social democratic party, was slated to award the Women’s March with its Human Rights Award on Nov. 12, but has now withdrawn the group’s nomination, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Members from one of FES’s working groups, Critique of Anti-Semitism and Jewish Studies, penned a public letter denouncing the Women’s March’s anti-Semitism and support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.
“We believe that the Women’s March USA does not meet the criteria of this award, as its organizers have repeatedly attracted attention through antisemitic statements, the trivialization of antisemitism and the exclusion of Zionists and Jews since Women’s March USA’s establishment in 2017. Women’s March USA does not constitute an inclusive alliance,” the members wrote.
The members then lay out some examples of anti-Semitism from Women’s March board member Linda Sarsour, who said feminists could not also be Zionists and that Zionists were Nazis. Sarsour also supports the BDS movement and has called Israel an apartheid state. Sarsour, along with Carmen Perez and Tamika D. Mallory, have also supported anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, who has compared Jews to termites.
With the likes of Sarsour in control and associates of Farrakhan, this should come as no surprise. What I don't understand, is why women buy into an organization that espouses these types of views? Ironically, the left is always calling people on the right "Nazis" when it is the left that is involved in anti-Semitic actions, views and speech.
