(Jewish Group) Everything You Need to Know About the 2019 Women's March

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It all started on Dec. 14, 2018, when Tablet published a lengthy exposé entitled “Is the Women’s March Melting Down?” about the trials and tribulations of the March’s owners. The piece alleges that Women’s March co-organizers Tamika Mallory and Carmen Perez used blatantly anti-Semitic rhetoric behind closed doors at meetings of Women’s March organizers, allegedly prompting Jewish co-organizer Vanessa Wruble to leave the Women’s March Inc. Mallory and Bland denied that anti-Semitic rhetoric was used at any Women’s March leadership meetings.

Meanwhile, Mallory and co-organizer Linda Sarsour’s support of Louis Farrakhan, a leader of the Nation of Islam who is openly anti-Semitic, has been questioned. The two March co-organizers say they don’t espouse the anti-Semitic or homophobic views present in Farrakhan’s sermons, but they have apparently stopped short of denouncing Farrakhan or disassociating from him. Mallory, Perez, Sarsour and another organizer known as Bob Bland have largely become known as the face of the movement.

That sounds...not great.

Oh and there’s more. The group also came under fire for failing to specify that the Women’s March would fight anti-Semitism in its Unite Principles, which mentioned “Black women, Native women, poor women, immigrant women, Muslim women, and queer and trans women,” but not Jewish women. Sarsour released a statement apologizing for the oversight and the organizers’ perceived lack of response to allegations of anti-Semitism in November.

“We should have been faster and clearer in helping people understand our values and our commitment to fighting anti-semitism. We regret that,” the statement said. “Every member of our movement matters to us — including our incredible Jewish and LGBTQ members. We are deeply sorry for the harm we have caused, but we see you, we love you, and we are fighting with you.”

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