I’m Glad the Dyke March Banned Jewish Stars

This weekend, at a lesbian march in Chicago, three women carrying Jewish pride flags — rainbow flags embossed with a Star of David — were kicked out of the celebration on the grounds that their flags were a “trigger.” An organizer of the Dyke March told the Windy City Times that the fabric “made people feel unsafe” and that she and the other members of the Dyke March collective didn’t want anything “that can inadvertently or advertently express Zionism” at the event.

One of the women who was asked to leave the Dyke March, Eleanor Shoshany Anderson, nfl jerseys cheap, couldn’t understand why she was kicked out of an event that billed itself as intersectional. “The Dyke March is supposed to be intersectional,” she said. “I don’t know why my identity is excluded from that. I felt that, as a Jew, I am not welcome here.”
She isn’t. Because though intersectionality cloaks itself in the garb of humanism, it takes a Manichaean view of life in which there can only be oppressors and oppressed. To be a Jewish dyke, let alone one who deigns to support Israel, is a categorical impossibility, oppressor and oppressed in the same person.



I’m sorry for the women, like Ms. Grauer, who found themselves under genuine threat for carrying a colorful cloth falsely accused of being pernicious.

But I am also grateful.

Has there ever been a crisper expression of the consequences of “intersectionality” than a ban on Jewish lesbians from a Dyke March?

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Intersectionality is the big idea of today’s progressive left. In theory, it’s the benign notion that every form of social oppression is linked to every other social oppression. This observation — coined in 1989 by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw — sounds like just another way of rephrasing a slogan from a poster I had in college: My liberation is bound up with yours. That is, cheap nfl hats, the fight for women’s rights is tied up with the fight for gay rights and civil rights and so forth. Who would dissent from the seductive notion of a global sisterhood?

Well, in practice, intersectionality functions as kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has suffered throughout history. Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane.

By that hierarchy, you might imagine that the Jewish people — enduring yet another wave of anti-Semitism here and abroad — should be registered as victims. Not quite.

Laurel Grauer, one of the women who was ejected, said she’d been carrying that Jewish pride flag in the march, held on the Saturday before the city’s official Pride Parade, Wholesale jerseys nfl, for more than a decade. It “celebrates my queer, Jewish identity,” she explained. This year, however, she lost track of the number of people who harassed her for carrying it.

Why? Largely because of Israel, the Jewish state, which today’s progressives see only as a vehicle for oppression of the Palestinians — no matter that Israel has repeatedly sought to meet Palestinian claims with peaceful compromise, and no matter that progressives hold no other country to the same standard. China may brutalize Buddhists in Tibet and Muslims in Xinjiang, while denying basic rights to the rest of its 1.3 billion citizens, but “woke” activists pushing intersectionality keep mum on all that.

That’s why the march organizers and their sympathizers are now trying to smear Ms. Grauer as some sort of right-wing provocateur. Their evidence: She works at an organization called A Wider Bridge, which connects the L.G.B.T.Q. Jewish community in America with the L.G.B.T.Q. community in Israel. The organizers are also making the spurious claim that the Jewish star is necessarily a symbol of Zionist oppression — a breathtaking claim to anyone who has ever seen a picture of a Jew forced to wear a yellow one under the Nazis.

No, the truth is that it was no more and no less than anti-Semitism. Just read Ms. Shoshany Anderson’s account of her experience, which she posted on Facebook after being kicked out of the march.



For progressive American Jews, intersectionality forces a choice: Which side of your identity do you keep, Cheap jerseys china, and which side do you discard and revile? Do you side with the oppressed or with the oppressor?

She tried to explain that the star is the “ubiquitous symbol of Judaism,” and that she simply wanted “to be Jewish in public.” Then, she “tried using their language,” explaining “this is my intersection. I’m supposed to be able to celebrate it here.”

It didn’t work. Ms. Shoshany Anderson left sobbing. “I was thrown out of Dyke March for being Jewish,” she said. Just so.
“I wanted to be in public as a gay Jew of Persian and German heritage. Nothing more, nothing less. So I made a shirt that said ‘Proud Jewish Dyke’ and hoisted a big Jewish Pride flag — a rainbow flag with a Star of David in the center, the centuries-old symbol of the Jewish people,” she wrote. “During the picnic in the park, organizers in their official t-shirts began whispering and pointing at me and soon, a delegation came over, announcing they’d been sent by the organizers. They told me my choices were to roll up my Jewish Pride flag or leave. The Star of David makes it look too much like the Israeli flag, cheap hats, they said, and it triggers people and makes them feel unsafe. This was their complaint.”

That kind of choice would have been familiar to previous generations of left-wing Jews, particularly those in Europe, who felt the tug between their ethnic heritage and their “internationalist” ideological sympathies. But this is the United States. Here, progressives are supposed to be comfortable with the idea of hyphenated identities and overlapping ethnic, sexual and political affinities. Since when did a politics that celebrates choice — and choices — devolve into a requirement of being forced to choose?



Jews on the left, particularly in recent years, have attempted to square this growing discomfort by becoming more anti-Israel. But if history has taught the Jews anything it’s that this kind of contortion never ends well.
It may be wrong to read too much into an ugly incident at a single march, but Jews should take what happened in Chicago as a lesson that they might not be as welcome among progressives as they might imagine. That’s a warning for which to be grateful, Cheap nfl jerseys, even as it is a reminder that anti-Semitism remains as much a problem on the far-left as it is on the alt-right.

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Five women live on the 22 floor of the same apartment; Different in personalities they each have their own struggles in their career,  family and love life. As they get to know each other and Journey through the struggles of living in Shanghai, they each undergo a transformation.
“Ode to Joy” was certainly my most anticipated drama of the year and for good reasons, I will briefly explain why, First and foremost because I have total trust in the production team and actors and well when I read what it would be about I was filled with too much happiness, it was sisterhood and a friendship filled with so much love, respect, funny and cute moments. And I have to admit I’m not the biggest fan of Chinese Modem Dramas but now I can definitely say, this one is the best I’ve seen and among my favorite dramas right now.
Of course what made this drama such a wonderful and unique journey is the friendship between all of them, how they all get to know, accept, respect and love each other, it was simply beautiful and magical to see, everything feels so genuine, it’s like they’ve known each other since a very long time and were able to confide in one another, joke and do lot of amusing activities together like true friends would do and yeah it did take a little bit of time for at least two of them to open up more and accept the other girls however in the end they were themselves when together all 5 of them.
Friendship is definitely not what this drama is all about, Cheap jerseys, I really have too much love this drama that will be hard to explain with words but anyway I’ll try to convey my thoughts and affection for Ode to Joy without being too subjective, They do really have their own qualities and flaws and that’s what make them humane and alive.

Of course I know if I start talking about all of them it will take me hours so I’ll try make it as short as possible and go straight to the point. It was overall a very great drama as I said above and I just can’t wait for the next seasons to see my girls again”0”. Very recommended as it will definitely bring you lot of smiles laughter and food for thoughts as well.

Spend minutes ask myself

 I found recently I can’t express myself in English exactly . There are a lot of thoughts can’t tell directly in English style , cheap nfl hats, Perhaps there stay the differences In culture , however, the main reason is that My English is not enough to help me serve the communication.

     All the words I wrote sounds like Chinese English . Even though , I pursue myself to insist it on and do hope I can appreciate my words some day . I always write something while nobodywas watching . I fear the question that how high level your English . I can’t tell and it is shy for me to talk about this issue .even sometimes I sneer me on this , what caused the situation that I spent a lot of time on English learning but be nervous still when I have the chance to communicate in English , even now I can’t express myself rightly . I always focus on learning but didn’t get the senior development which bored me much .
     This morning I have had less to do and have time to do the communication with myself in heart . Actually speaking , nfl jerseys cheap, I have talent on music and Chinese writing but I did not spend much time on studying them and also didn’t get the improvement . Perhaps it is the reason why I am learning English sometimes but didn’t make the great progress .