Thread by @JewhadiTM

The @WomensMarch is a con job

The women’s issues that the Women’s March refuses to address, and the Jewish question blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-womens-iss…

Its leaders ignore sexual harassment, domestic violence, and reproductive rights -- not to mention anti-Semitism.

Currently, the most high-profile activity of the so-called “women’s movement” in the United States is one that appears to have nothing to do with women or feminism. The leadership oddly seems to have no track record in terms of fighting for women’s rights.

Rather, it is a shell game, a performance, a con job.

The Women’s March leadership consists of women completely new to the movement, who are branded in the same way that actresses or reality show celebrities are.

They are savvy about procuring corporate funding, and even savvier about getting Hollywood stars — eager to virtue signal — involved. They stage events, not revolutions.

The Women’s March addresses things like “immigration reform” and “police violence against black men.” They say they are “anti-racists,” more than they are “anti-sexists.” And they prioritize “queer and transgender” politics, but never plain old garden variety women’s issues.

While the Women’s March wants to talk about things like the criminalization of poor men and men of color — something women of color are affected by, as it is their sons, brothers, and husbands who are jailed — women of color and poor women are also jailed quite a lot themselves.

Sex trafficking? Child marriage? FGM? Forced face veiling? Honor Killing? None of these issues are being addressed by the American Women’s March leadership.

What is going on?

For the moment, I am willing to forget about the soul-shattering allegations of anti-Semitism that the leadership refuses to address. @TamikaDMallory has still not publicly condemned Louis Farrahkan for his rank, filthy remarks referring to Jews as “Satanic” and “termites.”

.@LSarsour has repeatedly condemned the Jewish state yet remains quiet about human rights abuses in all 57 Muslim states. Her condemnation of Israel is not specific to women-it concerns Israel’s alleged mistreatment of a people (Palestinians) that didn't exist until the mid-1960s

I am also ready to put aside the alleged financial corruption and greed these leaders are accused of. According to Leah McSweeney and Jacob Siegel at Tablet, the Women’s March Leadership raised huge sums that they have not distributed to their grassroots activists.

Rather, they have kept and/or used the money for themselves and for their new high lifestyle. McSweeney and Siegel also revealed that the March Leadership’s used Nation of Islam members for their security.

In other words, Islamists whose views of women are beyond questionable — instead of hiring former female police officers or military women as their guards.

Despite what appears to be an attempt to add “Jewish” to the list of identities the Women’s March would like to claim to represent, the statement does not actually address the substantive criticisms made.

The first person and photo presented as part of the new steering committee is that of Abby Stein, who is Jewish, but has left Judaism behind. What “a woman of trans experience” means is not explained.

Is Abby a man who now identifies as a woman? Or a woman who identifies as “trans”? What does this mean? And what relevance does this have in terms of the Women’s March?

April Baskin is described as the daughter of a “white Jewish mother and a black Jewish father.” She is also a member of Bend the Arc, a Jewish advocacy group fighting “white nationalism,” “racial justice,” and “Trump’s wall.”

It is a politically correct entity, and if you are a Jew in the cross-hairs, these are the concerns you are permitted to espouse. Poverty in the Jewish community, sexism within the Jewish tribes, Jewish women’s religious rights are not mentioned.

Baskin supports “social justice” and “immigration reform,” but there is no mention of what she has done about domestic violence, sexual violence, and reproductive justice.

Does the fact that she is half-black somehow “cleanse” the fact that she is also a half-white Jew?

At one point, all Jews — even the pale white Jews of Eastern and Northern Europe — were once considered as racially “Other.” Yet Jewish identity today does not gain identity points, as others do.

The issue of anti-Semitism is rarely included in modern academic textbooks or in the curriculum dealing with oppression and social justice. It is not en vogue.

The third Jewish member is Yavilah McCoy, described as a “Jew of color” whose focus is the generational journey of “an African-American Jewish family.” The civil rights struggle in America in the 1960s was composed of African-American activists joined by “white” Jewish activists.

Like their African-American comrades, some of these “white” folks were beaten, jailed, and even murdered in their pursuit of justice for black people. (Remember Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and Viola Liuzzo?)

Jews of color were too few in number in America to have participated visibly in this legendary struggle.

Who exactly is McCoy representing historically and currently?

One trans-identified Jew and two Jews of color may be seen as politically correct, but they do not necessarily represent more than a minority of Jews in America. They have mainly been chosen as window dressing and as proof of “intersectionality.”

Those who know anything about Israel know that nearly half the country is populated by Jews of color who fled the most profound persecution at the hands of Muslim mobs and governments in Arab, Asian, South Asian, and North African countries.

The point: the March leadership only chose Jews who have either left Judaism and are trans men or are Jews of color whose politics are more concerned with racial justice, immigration, and prison reform, rather than with sexism in general or with sexism within Judaism.

Jews of color are in the minority in the United States — but ironically, Jews of color are plentiful in Israel where the March leadership believes that everyone is a white Jew.

The Leadership is so uber-trendy that they have invited two men (trans men) to join their new and expanded steering committee. Again, I am not sure what being trans has to do with the fight for women’s reproductive rights or against male sexual violence towards women and children

Despite the March leadership’s obsession with virtue signalling and identity politics, hundreds of corporate and progressive sponsors of the March have quietly dropped out.

According to an article in today’s National Review, while the March “racked up nearly 550 partners (in 2017), this year, the number of partners has dropped significantly, to just over 200 — and those partners are much smaller in stature.”

The NAACP, the National Democratic Committee, the National Organization for Women, and Emily’s List are no longer sponsors.

Perhaps they finally understand that this leadership is ersatz, treading water, and not the real deal. Perhaps they fear being associated with an event that has become a toxic mess. Perhaps they, too, see that this empress is naked.