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June 28, 2017

At a Chicago Gay Pride March, No Jewish Symbols Allowed

Stars of David made some people feel “unsafe.”

In Chicago last Saturday, the organizers of the “Dyke March”—an event that billed itself as “more inclusive” than the following day’s Gay Pride Parade—told some of its Jewish participants that they had to leave. The reason: they had had the temerity to display rainbow flags bearing Stars of David. A spokeswoman for the group that sponsors the event later clarified that “we don't want anything . . . that can inadvertently or advertently express Zionism.” Charles Lipson writes:

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