“If someone would show up with an American flag but with the stripes as a rainbow, we would treat it the same way,” said Yael Horowitz, one of the D.C. It was banned, the organizers stated, because in their eyes it is a symbol of nationalism and imperialism. The march organizers, spearheaded by Jewish women, specifically banned the rainbow flag with a Magen David in the center, composed to look like the Israeli flag. These headlines-“ Jewish Symbols Banned”-were misleading.
Dyke* March, as articles in The Forward, Haaretz, and other publications breathlessly announced, “ Israeli and Jewish Symbols Banned on Pride Flags.” And here I am, talking not about queerness or about Judaism, but about Israel again. I initially set out to write an essay about my experience as a queer woman in the Jewish community, or maybe about being a Jewish woman in the LGBT community.
