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(Jewish Group) German NGO rescinds award to US Women's March due to antisemitism charge
(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)The think tank for the German social democratic party withdrew its Human Rights Award to the Women's March USA on Thursday because doctoral students associated with the foundation accused the organizers of the march of hardcore antisemitism and support of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting the Jewish state.
"We believe that the Women's March USA does not meet the criteria of this award, as its organizers have repeatedly attracted attention through antisemitic statements, the trivialization of antisemitism and the exclusion of Zionists and Jews since Women's March USA establishment in 2017. Women's March USA does not constitute an inclusive alliance," wrote, in a public letter, the members of the scholarship working group called Critique of Antisemitism and Jewish Studies from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
The Friedrich Ebert Foundation, which generates ideas and policies for the social democratic party, a governing party in Chancellor Angela Merkel coalition government, was slated to present its Human Rights Award to the Women's March USA on November 12. According to the award's mission statement, it honors a "commitment to a strong, active and inclusive civil society."
The young academics added in their letter "an organization that may support feminism, but discriminates against Jews and Zionists denies Israel’s right to exist should not be honored by a democratic foundation that advocates diversity and speaks out against discrimination."
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