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Last year, Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern explored the growing anti-Semitism that “has begun to tear at the seams of the LGBTQ movement. “Where is the collective outrage over this despicable targeting of Jews?” “In the heart of our city one of the most blatant incidents of anti-Semitism took place today at the Dyke March,” said AJC Chicago Director Amy Stoken. A history of Chicago’s annual Pride Parade by LGBT historian Sukie de la Croix The 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City were ignored by Chicagos newspapers and it was harassment as usual for. The American Jewish Committee condemned the action and called for others to speak up against the move. We told them people in the space were feeling threatened.” But as a Collective we are very much pro-Palestine, and when we see these flags we know a lot of folks who are under attack by Israel see the visuals of the flag as a threat, so we don’t want anything in the space that can inadvertently or advertently express Zionism,” she said. With the reduced number of entries, the final entry should cross the start-line two hours and 15 minutes after the official start-time, whereas in past years it has been two hours and 45 minutes, or more. Some folks say they are Jewish Pride flags. When the 2016 Chicago Pride Parade steps off at noon on Sunday, June 26, there will be 50 less entries, down from 200 that participated in 2015. “Yesterday during the rally we saw three individuals carrying Israeli flags super imposed on rainbow flags. A member of the Dyke March Collective spoke to Chicagoist on Sunday and insisted the organization is not anti-Semitic but rather didn’t want to be associated with anything that could be interpreted as pro-Israel. The organizers defended their decision to ask certain demonstrators to leave.