(JEWISH GROUP) I thought the Dyke March should be open to Zionists. So my fellow New York organizers kicked me out
Three weeks after Jodi Kreines, an organizer for the New York City Dyke March, expressed concerns about how the activist group has handled discussions about Zionism in a feature for the Forward, she was ousted from her role.
In an email informing her of her removal, her former peers on the march’s organizing committee told her that her statements had created an “inconsistency” that had made “BIPOC community members in particular” within the group “feel unwelcome and unsafe.”
Kreines, who has been an LGBTQ+ organizer for two decades, was the only Jewish member of the New York City Dyke March’s 2025 organizing committee to resist the march’s formal commitment to anti-Zionist principles earlier this year. She believed that the march should remain inclusive to all who identify as dykes, regardless of their political affiliation.
Kreines spoke with the Forward the day after she was notified of her removal. The following, in her voice, has been edited for length and clarity.
On June 6, a fellow committee member posted in one of our channels that a BIPOC TikTok creator from New York City had made a video accusing us of being Zionist, and urged their followers not to join the Dyke March. It created a panic within the NYCDM organizing committee. People started posting my quotes on internal committee channels from the original Forward article, but with my name blacked out.
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Bigots gonna bigot.
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