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Where Are the Jewish Women Who Helped Start the Women's March?

(Tablet) Leah McSweeney and Jacob Siegel - In the first hours of the first meeting for what would become the Women's March, as the women in the initial group were opening up about their backgrounds and personal investments in creating a resistance movement to President Trump, Carmen Perez and Tamika Mallory allegedly asserted that Jewish people bore a special collective responsibility as exploiters of black and brown people. Mercy Morganfield, daughter of blues legend Muddy Waters and a former spokesperson for the Women's March who also ran the D.C. branch, told Tablet, "There are no Jewish women on the board. They refused to put any on. Most of the Jewish people resigned and left. They refused to even put anti-Semitism in the unity principles."
2018-12-21 00:00:00
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