The Freedom to Vote Relay-Rally on Saturday, features a bike ride to the US Capitol from West Virginia, the home state of Democratic Senator Joe Manchin. Manchin is a sponsor of the proposed bill for which the rally is named.
Before pulling out, Sunrise Movement DC requested the Declaration for American Democracy, one of the rally's main organizers, remove the three Jewish groups from a coalition sponsoring the event.
They specifically named the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), the Reform movement's Religious Action Center (RAC), and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), claiming that these groups support the existence of Israel, which Sunrise DC called a "colonial project."
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The group accused Israel of illegally occupying Palestine and engaging in "...violent, oppressive tactics that go against the values we advocate for as a hub."
Sunrise DC wrote in a statement posted on Twitter, "Given our commitment to racial justice, self-governance, and indigenous sovereignty, we oppose Zionism and any state that enforces its ideology. Zionism is incompatible with statehood and political sovereignty."
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Ironically, the three Jewish groups cited by Sunrise DC are not Israeli, or Israel advocacy groups and all back a two-state solution for the Middle East conflict. NCJW and RAC have sister groups in Israel that also advocate for the rights of minorities.
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The national Sunrise Movement did not respond to requests for comment on the DC chapter's statement from many media outlets. Instead, the group attempted to bury the tweet by posting repeatedly throughout the day. Twitter users were quick to comment on the subsequent posts about the statement by the DC chapter and accused the organization of antisemitism for singling out the Jewish organizations.
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Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York tweeted, "Refusing to participate in civic life with Jewish groups, especially those groups who are committed to social justice here in the US, in Israel, and around the world, is misguided, unproductive, offensive and wrong."
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The backlash to Sunrise's statement was so severe that by Wednesday night, the group had protected their tweets.
A deeper dive into the Sunrise Movement’s website revealed the group to be law enforcement "abolitionist," "intersectional" organization that is "anti-capitalist."
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On their website, the Sunrise Movement demanded: land back for Indigenous people and reparations for Black and brown people." The irony of the group advocating to remove Jews from Israel who have a connection to the land traced back for thousands of years was not lost on pundits and social media users.
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Sunrise also claims to "…center, support, uplift, and protect Black, indigenous, POC, femmes, queer, trans, disabled, unhoused folx, and all other marginalized groups," yet fail to realize that many of the groups they mention have few if any rights in most countries in the Middle East.
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