How poor choices, miscommunication, and heated rhetoric resulted in the media firestorm between JVP and JQY during NY’s Celebrate Israel Parade.
As a progressive, each year I’m disappointed in New York’s annual Celebrate Israel parade. And yet I continue to march.
Israel’s American supporters are desperately clinging to the claim that they’re in it for civil rights. Queers are called “homophobic” when they oppose pinkwashing, Jews are called “self-hating” when they oppose Israeli apartheid.