r/JewsOfConscience • u/Ok_Item_3313 Jew of Color • Jun 29 '24

Activism NYC Dyke March Drama

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The NYC Dyke March is being boycotted by many other organizations including Act Up NYC for putting out and subsequently deleting this statement. Thoughts?

Imma be real I don't really think this statement is bad at all, but I understand that others have read it as "all lives matter"-ing the genocide in Gaza. Would love to hear more takes.

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u/Academic-Ad-1401 Jun 29 '24

I have no clue what’s controversial about this statement. Seems very reasonable to me.

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u/yungsemite Jewish Jun 29 '24

Come back and read the comments here in 2 hours lol.

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u/Academic-Ad-1401 Jun 29 '24

Like… yeah genocide is horrendous but also why wouldn’t Jewish dykes be welcome?

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u/theapplekid Orthodox-raised, atheist, Ashkenazi, leftist 🍁 Jun 29 '24

Of course Jewish dykes should be welcome. Zionists should not be welcome though.

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u/Pitiful_Meringue_57 Jewish Jun 29 '24

it’s a march for a community , it shouldn’t be zionist and i’m glad they’ve been vocally pro palestine but i rly don’t think it’s reasonable to say zionists not welcome, this is NYC for gods sake. As long as they don’t do anything crazy like wave an israeli flag and yell shit or be vocal abt it at the march i dont see why they should be excluded. They can be made to feel uncomfortable by the posts and proud pro palestine sentiment but if they posted something trying to say that zionists weren’t welcome that would be kinda fucked

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u/boredjorts Jun 29 '24

Should they also welcome racists?