Dealing today with the sad fact that an organization doing important work, with which I was volunteering several hours per week, turned out to be crawling with #antisemites.
There were clues, but I overlooked them because the need is so urgent. Coalition-building often means working with people with whom you agree in one area and disagree in others; that’s reality.
But they crossed a line when they refused to refer clients to another organization whom they believed (incorrectly, though not the point) to be “partnered with a heavily #Zionist organization”.
Yes: they literally denied assistance to their own, needy clients rather than refer them to a charitable #Jewish organization, unrelated to Zionism altogether, due to its imagined association with a third group (in this case, a Jewish Federation) to serve others in need.
What’s more, when I raised the issue, I was essentially cancelled. 1/