The Chicago Dyke March, on Saturday, is not about promoting Pride but rather a far-left agenda that includes antisemitism.
One poster promoting the event includes a woman standing on top of a burning police car while holding burning American and Israeli flags. The woman’s shorts include the initials ACAB (“All Cops Are Bastards”), and the car is marked as belonging to the Chicago Police Department.
The flyer was later changed to a woman on top of an unmarked burning police car while holding two unmarked flags, and the message was removed from her shorts. Still, the damage was done. We can be confident that the message was not changed for reasons of contrition. The burning police car still shows the anti-police sentiment behind the event.
As proof that the radical messaging remains, another flyer includes someone holding up an AK-47 and features the caption “queers for palestine.” Never mind that gay and transgender people in the Palestinian territories and Gaza are persecuted and sometimes tortured. With the exception of Israel, gay and transgender people are persecuted almost everywhere else in the Middle East. The event also calls for the elimination of the Israeli Defense Forces, which would mean Israel being wiped out. The hypocrisy of claiming service of LGBTQ rights and simultaneously singling out Israel for attack would be hilarious, were it not so tragic.
There’s more far-left fanaticism. The Facebook event promoting the Dyke March advertises that the theme is “ABOLITION NOW.” This refers to calls to abolish the Chicago Police Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
But let’s look back to history for a second. Because this is not the first time the Chicago Dyke March has been antisemitic. In 2017, marchers carrying rainbow Pride flags with the Star of David were asked to leave for what the organizers said was “repeatedly expressed support for Zionism.” Anti-Zionism is antisemitism as it denies the right of the Jewish people to the State of Israel. The homeland that they returned to following centuries of pogroms that culminated in the Holocaust, when 6 million Jews were killed.
Let’s get this straight: The Dyke March prides itself not on advocating for LGBTQ rights but rather on promoting repellent prejudices and a far-left agenda.
Jackson Richman is a journalist in Washington, D.C. Follow him @jacksonrichman.
