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Turning Israel Day Parade Into Right-Wing Echo Chamber Rolling Down Fifth Ave.
First Gays Were Outcasts — Now Progressive Zionists Purged
By J.J. Goldberg
Published May 29, 2014, issue of June 06, 2014.
Here’s a brain-teaser: If Mordechai Anielewicz, commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, had survived the war and ended up in New York, could he march in the Israel Day Parade?
Answer: Not if certain self-appointed guardians of Zionist purity had a say. Anielewicz led the Warsaw chapter of Hashomer Hatzair, the socialist-Zionist youth movement that spearheaded the ghetto’s Jewish Fighters Organization. Had he landed in America, he surely would have plunged back into his movement, as other ghetto fighters did, and gone on to lead its parent organization, known today as Partners for Progressive Israel.
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