Progressive Rift: Climate Warriors Call for Jewish Groups to be Purged From ‘Voting Rights’ Coalition As progressives prepare for a “voting rights” rally in Washington on Saturday, a youth-led climate advocacy group has sparked a kerfuffle by declaring it will not take a speaking slot at the event because of the participation of “Zionist” groups.
The D.C. affiliate of the Sunrise Movement complained that the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC) were “in alignment with and in support of Zionism and the State of Israel.”
“Given our commitment to racial justice, self-governance, and indigenous sovereignty, we oppose Zionism and any state that enforces its ideology,” the group said in a statement.
(Notwithstanding the group’s reference to “indigenous sovereignty,” Jewish heritage in Israel dates back millennia. The Jewish King David reigned in Jerusalem some 3,000 years ago, while Abraham, the patriarch of Judaism who according to the Bible was called by God to settle in Canaan, is believed to have done so almost 1,000 years earlier.)
Saturday’s planned rally marks the culmination of a “relay” from Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia to the nation’s capital in support of the Freedom to Vote Act, which the U.S. Senate failed to move forward on Wednesday night.................
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