(Jewish Group) Some students attend Women's March, others sit out to protest leadership

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The 2019 Women’s March rallied hundreds of thousands of marchers in D.C.’s Freedom Plaza on Jan. 19. Amid controversy and cold temperatures, an estimated 725,000 marchers showed up, a smaller turnout than the first march in 2017.

In their recently released “Women’s Agenda,” the Women’s March team provided 24 federal policy priorities that would serve as the foundation of the 2019 platform and a future work plan for Congress. Alongside advocacy of intersectional feminist policies, the “Women’s Agenda” brings attention to three policy priorities, including universal health care, an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, and ending war.

While the Women’s March has, in previous years, battled charges of a lack of diversity in their leadership, the 2019 Women’s March has been surrounded by further accusations of anti-Semitism.

In November 2018, co-founder of the Women’s March Teresa Shook accused the current co-chairs of anti-Semitism, anti-LGBTQ sentiment, and racism. Shook stated in her Facebook post, “Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez of Women’s March, Inc. have steered the Movement away from its true course … I call for the current Co-Chairs to step down and to let others lead who can restore faith in the Movement and its original intent.”

Tamika Malloy’s support of Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, has caused heightened controversy as many accuse the Women’s March leadership of antisemitism due to Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic rhetoric.

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