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In Chicago’s Slutwalk, Israel and Palestine Take Center Stage
by Gretchen Rachel Hammond
August 12, 2017

While a series of speakers addressed issues that included sex worker rights and solidarity with transgender women of color, a series of vitriolic pro-Palestine, anti-Israel speeches set the event’s tone…”I was holding up my sign, and two or three people at a time would walk in front of me and pushed my sign out of the way,” a Zioness participant named Judy said. “Whenever I moved my sign, they would follow me to block me. They didn’t say anything. They just assumed I was a hateful person who could not be a feminist because I am a Zionist.” READ MORE

OBSERVER Israel-Bashing Upstages Women’s Rights at SlutWalk Chicago

Jewish Voice for Peace advocate speaks for Palestinian rights at SlutWalk Chicago 2017