As someone who does identify as a lesbian, I find it interesting that someone who does not dismisses the protests against Dyke March as coming from outsiders. I am grateful to the straight men and Zioness’s who challenged the antisemitism. As a Jewish lesbian it is frightening when pretty much the only public lesbian space excludes me and my real symbols. The Magen David on a rainbow flag represents who I am. Not rainbow pomegranites. How patronising and colonial it was of DC Dyke March to tell me I can’t carry the actual symbol of being a gay Jew but I can carry an irrelevant fruit. I completely support making space for Palestinians, but the DC Dyke March exclusion of Jewish lesbians And the singling out of the Israeli flag validated the protestors carrying Israeli flags. ( only it and the US flag were excluded, not the flags of any other country, even those where homosexuality is punishable with death. I am also deeply pained by Israeli government actions and horrified by the use of Magen David as weapon of attack by right wing criminals. The solution is not to torture Jewish lesbians by making us eligible for participation in our own Dyke community only if we conform to the organisers’ absurdly incorrect understanding of Jewishness and What constitutes a symbol of being a gay Jew. Your use of the word “ breathless” in describing Jewish media’s calling out the antisemitism is actually a sexist insult. It is saying the voice is thin and hysterical and Without depth. Usually used to imply “ like a girl”. Why do you minimise an anti Semitic attack with a sexist slur? Would you minimise an attack against any other oppressed group? No. The protest against the Dc Dyke March does not come from “outside”, it comes from the inside of my deepest Dykiest Jewish heart.
As someone who does identify as a lesbian, I find it interesting that someone who does not dismisses the protests against Dyke March as coming from outsiders. I am grateful to the straight men and Zioness’s who challenged the antisemitism. As a Jewish lesbian it is frightening when pretty much the only public lesbian space excludes me and my real symbols. The Magen David on a rainbow flag represents who I am. Not rainbow pomegranites. How patronising and colonial it was of DC Dyke March to tell me I can’t carry the actual symbol of being a gay Jew but I can carry an irrelevant fruit. I completely support making space for Palestinians, but the DC Dyke March exclusion of Jewish lesbians And the singling out of the Israeli flag validated the protestors carrying Israeli flags. ( only it and the US flag were excluded, not the flags of any other country, even those where homosexuality is punishable with death. I am also deeply pained by Israeli government actions and horrified by the use of Magen David as weapon of attack by right wing criminals. The solution is not to torture Jewish lesbians by making us eligible for participation in our own Dyke community only if we conform to the organisers’ absurdly incorrect understanding of Jewishness and What constitutes a symbol of being a gay Jew. Your use of the word “ breathless” in describing Jewish media’s calling out the antisemitism is actually a sexist insult. It is saying the voice is thin and hysterical and Without depth. Usually used to imply “ like a girl”. Why do you minimise an anti Semitic attack with a sexist slur? Would you minimise an attack against any other oppressed group? No. The protest against the Dc Dyke March does not come from “outside”, it comes from the inside of my deepest Dykiest Jewish heart.