Wash. state Women's March group disbands after report detailing anti-Semitism

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The Washington state Women's March organizers have announced they are dissolving their chapter of the national Women's March after the Tablet Magazine published a detailed report about rampant anti-Semitism in the national organization's top ranks.

The Washington Times reports that the Washington state Women's March group could no longer abide blatant attacks on their Jewish members from some of the national group's leaders, including Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez, and Tamika Mallory.

Angie Beem, the group's spokeswoman, took to Facebook to explain the "difficult" decision, posting:

“Continuing to be a part of the Women’s March with the blatant bigotry they display would be breaking a promise. We can’t betray our Jewish community by remaining a part of this organization.”

Beem told the Spokane Spokesman-Review that she could not abide Sarsour's, Perez's, and Mallory's ties to Louis Farrakhan and said that while she knows the decision to disband an active organization would come as a surprise to some of the group's membership, she hasn't gotten a lot of pushback on her decision to disengage from the national March, proving that not everyone is an anti-Semite, but the left generally tolerates them.

“One of the things that has really surprised me is that I’m not getting a lot of pushback and a lot of hate,” she said. “That, to me, is almost a miracle.”

Although plenty of outlets, including Brain Flushings, have regularly reported on Sarsour's, Perez's, and Mallory's ties to Louis Farrakhan, the leader of Nation of Islam, and his openly anti-Semitic, anti-woman, and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, it took an enormous and intense investigation from Tablet Magazine to bring the issue into the light of day.

That investigation uncovered not only that Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez, and Tamika Mallory are intimately tied to Farrakhan's Chicago-based Nation of Islam, but that the Women's March and the Nation of Islam organization have been inextricably linked since the Women's March's founding.

The group was first organized as a grassroots effort but Perez and Sarsour quickly took over with co-chair Bob Bland. They aligned with the Women's March and another group with questionable concerns, The Gathering for Justice.

Once the anti-Semites solidified their positions at the head of the Women's March movement, Perez and Mallory steered the group in the direction of anti-Semitism.

Tablet media reported:

"Perez and Mallory allegedly first asserted that Jewish people bore a special collective responsibility as exploiters of black and brown people—and even, according to a close secondhand source, claimed that Jews were proven to have been leaders of the American slave trade."

The magazine also said that Sarsour, Perez, and Mallory looked to the Nation of Islam to provide security at personal appearances.

When the group's original organizers tried to regain control of the organization and wrest it from the three cohorts, they were met with insurmountable resistance, and a complicated financial relationship the new group had formed with the Gathering for Justice.

Although more than week has passed since the Tablet expose was released, Women's March leaders haven't apologized outright for their connections to Farrakhan, nor denounced the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader, nor has the Democratic Party. Instead, they've mostly called themselves victims of a witch hunt, insisting that the Women's March stands in solidarity against racism and discrimination in all its forms, proving that everything the left says is the exact opposite of the facts.

Since it was first alluded to in the spring of this year that the Women's March has anti-Semitic leanings, some of the sub-organizations have declared themselves independent of the national Women's March. 

According to the Tablet, "Houston, Washington, D.C., Alabama, Rhode Island, Florida, Portland, Illinois, Barcelona, Canada, and Women's March GLOBAL" have left the national fold.

But Washington state appears to be the first group to sever their ties to the three stooges: Sarsour, Perez, and Mallory over the Tablet revelations.

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Fla. municipality passes nation's first bill defining anti-Semitic crime

Bal Harbour is a south Florida municipality and it made history when it became the first in the United States to pass an ordinance that defines an anti-Semitic hate act.

The purpose of the ordinance is to help law enforcement identify and process anti-Semitic crimes, especially when official definitions aren't available.

"Tonight we become the first in the nation to codify the State Department's 2010 working definition of anti-Semitism," Bal Harbour Mayor Gabriel Goisman said.

The mayor added that the increase in anti-Semitic crimes makes the new rules an effective tool to tackle the problem. "It's our role to do something to combat the rise of anti-Semitism. Year after year, it's growing exponentially, and we shouldn't wait for the federal government, or even the state government, to do something. We can do it at the city levels."

In spite of the fact that Jews make up only about 2.2 percent of the U.S. population, over half of religiously motivated hate crimes in America are directed at them, wrote Josh Block, President and CEO of The Israel Project, in the Tablet Magazine. 

FBI statistics for 2016 report that of 1,273 religion-based hate crimes, 684 were anti-Jewish with Muslims being the second most-victimized group.

Most of these crimes are vandalism, not crimes directly against an individual, and that's where the new rules come into effect. For example, graffiti of the depiction of a swastika will now be treated as a hate crime under the ordinance, instead of simply as vandalism--because, let's face it, that's what it is.

The ordinance is in effect and community leaders hope other municipalities in Florida and elsewhere in the country will follow their lead. The initiative has received bipartisan legislators support.

The change in law came a few weeks after a man was caught on cellphone video shouting anti-Semitic threats outside a synagogue in Surfside, Florida on Thanksgiving morning.


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