I am a Jewish Queer girl who is an active member in this community. I use an alternate account when posting Jewish specific things sometimes outside of this community for obvious reasons - I am posting with that account now for cross posting purposes. With the recent events at the Chicago Dyke march, and the spotlight it has received, I had finally built up some courage to be more proactive in showing my Jewish queer identity, in showing my fear and hoping to also shed some more light on how secluded we have felt within the progressive movement.

Yesterday I posted an article here at /r/lgbt, along with other people who posted similar articles, that received a much better than I hoped for response, so I was feeling really uplifted. So, today I gathered my nerves and decided to write a text post, knowing I would get a mixed bag of replies but hoping for some open mindedness considering the previous article:

I made this alternative account years ago so I could post content based on my Jewish identity without fear of being doxxed, insulted and threatened - which occurs more often than not - and not from just your run of the mil nazis and white supremacists. I am finally posting about this event lately because I finally feel like we are being somewhat heard among the progressive movement, and it feels less like I am shouting into the void.

This Dyke March antisemitism is hitting me really hard. I am having some trouble putting my anger and hurt in check. Of course all antisemitism hurts me, as a Jewish Queer - and yes, connected to Israel, too - woman. But it’s that much harder when it comes from another community of which I am also a part of.

Growing up in NYC as a Jewish person, questioning my sexuality was the one place I really felt like I could be authentically myself and true to all my intersecting identities. I marched. I organized. I participated. I played. I grew up with you. Now that has been taken from me. That love, that sense of security, safety and acceptance. It’s gone. You have made me afraid of you.

And it's not just from this one, "small" event. This has been happening for a very long time. And it has happened to me, and it has made me completely secluded from the movement at large. It has become the majority, it happens at every event, and it is outspoken and common.

I just want people to know how personal this is for me so that when we’re talking about it, if you’re trying to defend the organizers of the March, defending people who have done this to Jews within the progressive movement long before this - I am begging you to realize how real the impact of their actions are. For me and for people like me. It’s about Jews as a whole being able to identify as such publicly.

"There’s something about the way that equality is framed in some quarters that to me often sounds like, 'All peoples in the world are entitled to self-determination.' But there’s an asterisk attached to that statement, and that asterisk is *Except for Jews."

The post was deleted, so I kindly messaged the mods asking why, not knowing it was caught in the spam folder and automatically deleted.

This was the reply:

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It was caught by the spam filter .but thankyou for pointing out how toxic and nasty your post history is.

You can see my comment history, it's very short. Nothing has been deleted or edited. My only crime is defending Jewish people and speaking up for my fears. Is this really the end of the line for Jewish equality? Do people really think we are undeserving of even the slightest bit of human respect and empathy?